Pyong Ahn:  “Peaceful Confidence”

Animal embodiment:  Turtle

One striving to have a mild outward appearance, strong inner self.

Pyong Ahn is the Korean pronunciation for the Chinese characters associated with this series.The forms were first created in 1901 by Itosu Yasutsune (a.k.a. Ituso Anko), a Shorin-ryu Karate master on Okinawa. The Okinawan dialect pronounces these characters 'Pin An'.