Origin of the name of Goju-Ryu Karate.
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Bubishi.
The name Goju Ryu was derived from a Chinese Kempo poem of an ancient Chinese Text written on Military Science called “Bu-bi-Shi”. The proper Chinese translation would be “Wu Bi Shii” and the proper spelling is something like ‘Wu pei Chih’. The Chinese sound for ‘P’ and ‘W’ are sometimes pronounced as the roman letter ‘B’ in English (just as Kung fu is English where it is actually or truly spelled as Gung Fu and pronounced closer to G instead of K). In the poem that follows; on the third line you can find the statement of Goju.