List of Famous people with last name Kanryo

Higaonna Kanryō

First Name Higaonna
Born on March 10, 1853
Died on December 1, 1916 (aged 63)

Higashionna Kanryō , also known as Higashionna West, was a Ryukyuan martial artist who founded a fighting style known at the time as Naha-te. He is recognized as one of the first students of Fujian White Crane Kung Fu masters, namely Ryū Ryū Ko, in the Fuzhou region of China who returned with those skills to Okinawa. His student, Chōjun Miyagi, would later found Gōjū ryū Karate.

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