Shōrin-ryū

Shōrin-ryū
少林流
Date founded	1929
Country of origin	Ryūkyū Kingdom
Founder	Chōshin Chibana
Arts taught	Karate
Ancestor arts	Okinawan martial arts (Shuri-te)
Descendant arts	Shotokan, Isshin-Ryu, Shogen-Ryu, American Kenpo
Descendant schools	Shōrin-ryū Shidōkan; Shōrin-ryū Shōrinkan; Shōrin-ryū Kyudōkan; Shorin-Ryu Reihokan; Matsubayashi-ryū; Shōbayashi Shōrin-ryū; Jyoshinmon Shōrin-ryū; Yoshudokai Shorin-ryu; Shubukan Shōrin-ryu;
Practitioners	(see notable practitioners)

Shōrin-ryū (少林流) is one of the major modern Okinawan martial arts and is one of the oldest styles of karate. It was named by Choshin Chibana in 1933, but the system itself is much older. The characters 少林, meaning "sparse" or "scanty" and "forest" respectively and pronounced "shōrin" in Japanese, are also used in the Chinese and Japanese words for Shaolin. "Ryū" means "school". Shōrin-ryū combines elements of the traditional Okinawan fighting styles of Shuri-te.

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