Motobu-ryū

Motobu-ryu
(本部流)

Motoburyu in 1926.
Date founded	1922
Country of origin	Japan
Founder	Choki Motobu (1870–1944)
Current head	Chosei Motobu
Arts taught	Karate
Ancestor schools	Shuri-te • Tomari-te
Descendant schools	Wadō-ryū • Shindō jinen-ryū • Matsubayashi Ryu • Nihon Kenpo Karatedo
Official website	Motobu-ryu

Motobu-ryu (本部流^?) is a school of karate founded by Choki Motobu in 1922. The official full name is Nihon Denryu Heiho Motobu Kenpo ("Japan's traditional tactics Motobu Kenpo").

Motobu Udun-di (本部御殿手^?), a Motobu family style of Karate, is also sometimes called Motobu-ryu or Motobu-ryu Udundi. It is a combination of the native Okinawan martial arts Te (an earlier name for Karate), Okinawan kobudō and Ryukyuan Dance.

Chosei Motobu is the inheritor of both Motobu-Ryu (his father's art) and Motobu Udundi (the art of his uncle, Choyu Motobu).