The canon, connected.

The forms themselves are next door.

For what a kata is — the name and where it comes from, the kanji, the shape it travels on the floor, what it develops, and the Japanese it teaches — go to the kata library. All twenty-six are written there at length, and nothing on this page repeats them.

What is here instead is the part that only exists once kihon, kata and kumite are held in one system: which documented techniques the library records inside each form, and what reference footage has been found, checked and filed against it.

Movement counts and kiai points follow the convention most widely published in the Shotokan mainstream. They vary between organisations, which count preparatory and combined motions differently — treat them as a description of the form, not as a ruling.