Senseis

Yoshihiro Hisanaga

Soke · Founder of Eibu Kan

8th Dan JKF Goju Kai, Hanshi
Kagoshima Goju Kai
JKF Goju Kai, Okinawa Region, Kyushu Prefecture
Goju Ryu Karatedo Eibukan, Soke

Born in 1938 in Kagoshima, Japan, Hisanaga Sensei received his initial Karatedo training from Kyoda Juhatsu. He is the founder and Hanshi of Eibu Kan Goju Ryu Karate-do.

Takafumi Hamabata

Chief Instructor

8th Dan Eibu Kan
7th Dan JKF Goju Kai,  Kyoshi
Founding Member, Hokubei Karate-do Shihankai

Hamabata Sensei has trained continuously in traditional Goju Ryu karate for over 50 years. He has unique roots drawing on the Shorei Kan (Toguchi Seikichi), Goju Kai (Yamaguchi Gogen), and JKF Goju Kai Kagoshima (Yoshihiro Hisanaga) lineages.

Katsuhide Kinjo

Senior Instructor

8th Dan Eibu Kan
7th Dan JKF Goju Kai, Kyoshi
Founding Member, Hokubei Karate-do Shihankai

Kinjo Sensei comes to us from Okinawa, where he learned Goju Ryu Karate through his high school club.

Albert Ige

Senior Instructor

8th Dan Eibu Kan

Ige Sensei has been training in Goju Ryu since the mid-1970s at the ESGVJCC.

Donny Hiroyuki Takemoto

Instructor

7th Dan Eibu Kan
7th Dan JKF Goju Kai, Renshi

Takemoto Sensei began training at the dojo at age 7 under Senseis Takafumi Hamabata and Masato Sakaue. He helped run a sister dojo in Newport Beach for several years.

Yuta "Bruce" Watanabe

Instructor

6th Dan Eibu Kan
4th Dan JKF Goju Kai

Watanabe Sensei began training at the dojo at age 8 under Senseis Takafumi Hamabata and Masato Sakaue. He ran a sister dojo in Newport Beach for over four years.

Keiichiro "Kay" Sakaue

Instructor

6th Dan Eibu Kan
3rd Dan JKF Goju Kai

Sakaue Sensei began training at the dojo at age 12 under Senseis Takafumi Hamabata and Masato Sakaue (his father). He ran two sister dojos one in Newport Beach the other City of Orange.

Masato Sakaue, Renshi

5th Dan Eibu Kan · 5th Dan JKF Goju Kai
Co-founder of Eibu Kan in the United States · Advisor (Retired)