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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).

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