It is considered that nunchaku come from Okinava. To date this archipelago is a part of Japan. Here people do not speak Japanese. Therefore “nunchaku” is not a Japanese word. This word is written as “nu-n-cha-ku” in katakan (syllabic alphabet to write foreign words) or by use of two Chinese hieroglyphs “double club”.
It is considered nunchaku is leaved with Chinese at Okinava.
It is unknown exact provenance of nunchaku. There are several versions about it. I arrange them by degrees of spreading and of verisimilitude. |
