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Chatan Yara (北谷 屋良 Chatan Yara 1668–1756) aka Yara Guwa Ueekata Yomitan Yara is credited with being one of the first to disseminate the art of Te throughout Okinawa. Yara is most noted for teaching Takahara Peichin who would later be the sensei of Sakugawa Kanga the father of Okinawan karate. Depending on Sakugawa’s birth date Yara may have been his teacher also (based on the kata he taught).Yara was from Chatan Village on Okinawa Island.