History

While Naihanchi Shodan is a staple of Okinawan Shuri-te, the Nidan and Sandan forms are thought to be the late nineteenth/early twentietch century work of Yasutsune Itosu, developing the themes found in the original kata. It has also been suggested, as with the Pinans, that the three Tekki kata are the result of a much longer original sequence being broken up into shorter segments, though there is no foundation for this. ~ GE