Juan Eduardo Castro

Martial artist

Born

22 August 1954, Montevideo

Citizenship

Uruguay

Sport

karate

Occupation

karateka

Juan Eduardo Castro dos Santos (born 1954), also known by the nickname of Kensei (拳生), is a Uruguayan karate grandmaster and Sōke ("Founder") of the style Okinawa-ken Ryū. He was a student, among others, of Georges London, Michihisa Itaya, Sulakshna-Bai, Jintatsu Higa, Seigi Nakamura and Shōshin Nagamine. He also practices Shodō (Zen calligraphy) and Sumi-e (Zen painting).

Teachers

• Shōshin Nagamine
• Georges London

External links

• Wikipedia
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q18670195 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.