Más de medio siglo transmitiendo el arte.

In the late 1960s, a young Japanese karateka arrived in Monterrey, Mexico with a gi, a black belt, and a vision that would span decades and continents. His name was Kunio Murayama. What he built was not an organization. It was a family.

Shihan Murayama carried the teachings of Kenwa Mabuni — the founder of Shitō-Ryū — and of Manzo Iwata, who had guided his own journey. He did not merely transmit technique. He transmitted character. The values of discipline, humility, and perseverance that define karate-do were not concepts he spoke about. They were the way he lived, the way he taught, and the way he treated every student who bowed before him.

For over five decades, he crossed borders — literal and figurative — to spread the art he loved. Dojos opened across Latin America and beyond. Black belts were formed not just in technique, but in spirit. The organization grew into something he may not have fully envisioned that first day in Monterrey: an international family of karateka, united by a shared lineage and a shared sense of who they were.

Shihan Murayama passed away in September 2023. The dojo fell quiet. But the art he gave us does not belong to him alone. It belongs to every student who tied their belt under his guidance, and to every student they will teach in turn.