King's Kung-Fu& Tai Chi

Kaisho haiwan uke

Knife-hand square side block – a Karate block

Type
Blocks and parries
Martial arts
Karate
Meaning
Knife-hand square side block
Listed in
Using the arms (Shotokan karate)

knife-hand square side block (e.g. in the kata, Heian yondan)

The name word by word

Each part of the romanized name looked up in the JMdict Japanese dictionary.

WordJapaneseReadingMeaning
kaisho海将かいしょうVice-Admiral (Maritime Self-Defence Force of Japan) (defense)
haiwan
uke受けうけdefense; defence

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text quoted from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

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