Stumbled on a really nice karate site the other day. It’s put together by the Prefecture of Okinawa, a prefecture is basically the same as an American state. It’s very nicely put together. Includes pages and video files relating to the history of karate, the different styles of karate, even has a page with the top karate guys, the so called, Intangible Cultural Asset Holders. These are all the 10th Dan, i.e. 10th degree blackbelts for the different Ryus, i.e. schools or styles, of Okinawan Karate. There are 9 of them listed, but the main reason I bring it up is because number 1 on the hit parade is Shugoro Nakazato, (That’s him to the left.)who is the head of our style of Karate, Shorin Ryu, Shorin Kan. There’s even video of Sensei Nakazato doing a kata. Pretty cool stuff if you have even a passing interest in Karate. Nicest site I’ve seen on the web about Karate.