 Take pleasure from these abilities.In Chosin Chibana's Shorin-ryu Karate 小林流 (also read as Kobayashi) five of his senior students were promoted to 9th Dan.Upon Chibana's death in 1969, Chibana's most senior student, Katsuya Miyahira, received the "hanko" (official seals of the organization) and was voted president of the Okinawa Shorin-ryū Karate-dō Association.