Rohai

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The Rohai katas are a family of katas practiced in Karate. The name translates approximately to "vision of a Crane" or "vision of a heron". The kata initially derives from the Tomari-te school. It was called Matsumora Rohai, after Kosaku Matsumora, who was presumably its inventor. Anko Itosu later took this kata and developed three kata from it: Rohai shodan, Rohai nidan, and Rohai sandan. In modern Karate, some styles teach all three kata (such as Shito ryu). However, other styles employ only one of them as a kata (such as Wado-ryu, which teaches Rohai shodan as Rohai). Gichin Funakoshi, founder of Shotokan, redeveloped and renamed Rohai nidan as Meikyo, which means "polishing a mirror".