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KYOKUSHIN MARKS

KYOKUSHINKAI KANJI

s the written form of the Kyokushinkay word. This sign is found on the kyokushin members dogis from around the world. These characters written toghether where painted for the first time by Haramotoki Sensei, a caligraphy master and friend of Sosai Mas Oyama.

Kyokushinkai written on its parts means: Society of the Supreme Truth
Kyoku = supreme, final
Shin = truth, reality
Kai = society

KANKU

KYOKUSHIN KARATE Symbol

Mas OYAMA chose the Kanku symbol as beeing representative for his karate style. In fact, Mas Oyama allways said that he best learned Kata techniques from master Funakoshi, on which he pus a grave accent.
Kata KANKU (in the beginings just one form, then teached in many schools in two forms - KANKU DAI and KANKU SHO) starts by raising hands through a circular movement above the head, where they stop. The big thumbs and the forefingers are pasted together and so they represent the KANKU symbol (an easily styled representation)
During the execution of this movement, the view is directed through the opening made by joining the palm somewhere in the far skyes. It is actualy a view oriented somewhere into the inner human beeing with the purpose to equaly favorise the spiritual and physical unity.
The points of the KANKU symbol are the fingers and they represent the limits or the extremes; they are from a philosophical view the margined, limited element.
The wide lateral portions represent the hand, SHUTO or the fist as an expresion of the face or power.
The center of the KANKU symbol is the space between the hands and sugests the infinit, the abyssal, the void in a philosophic manner.
The circles, both the inner one and the outer one sugest the continuity and the perpetual circular movement.

OSU

n the Kyokushin school, OSU is a salut and it is used also to replace words like yes, allright, i will do that, excuse me and i'm sorry. The OSU word comes from the Kanji chinese character OSHI SHINOBU which means to persevere beeing pushed. This word is one of the most important fhilosophies in Kyokushin Karate. OSU means the need to persevere all the time, to push yourself to the limits of physical endurance under any kind of presures.