Styles
The atlas records 17 styles, grouped by their recorded origin; for 12 of them none is recorded. The selection reflects what has been recorded, not the worldwide karate landscape.
Itosu Ankō
- Shōrin-ryūinfluenced byFounded by Chibana Chōshin
Naha-te
- Isshin-ryūinfluenced byFounded by Shimabuku Tatsuo
Pangainun
- Uechi-ryūpreserves the tradition ofFounded by Uechi Kanbun
Shindō Yōshin-ryū
- Wadō-ryūinfluenced byFounded by Ōtsuka Hironori
Shōtōkan
Shuri-te
- Isshin-ryūinfluenced byFounded by Shimabuku Tatsuo
Without a recorded origin
For these styles the atlas holds no evidenced origin relation. That is a gap in the record, not a statement about the style.
- Chitō-ryūFounded by Chitose Tsuyoshi
- Gōjū-ryūFounded by Miyagi Chōjun
- KoshinkanFounded by Hans Wecks
- KyokushinFounded by Ōyama Masutatsu
- Matsubayashi-ryūFounded by Nagamine Shōshin
- Matsumura Shōrin-ryūFounded by Sōken Hōhan
- Motobu-ryū
- Okinawa KenpōFounded by Nakamura Shigeru
- Ryūei-ryū
- Shindō Yōshin-ryūJūjutsu
- Shitō-ryūFounded by Mabuni Kenwa
- ShōtōkanFounded by Funakoshi Gichin