The same as BASSAI, is one of the obligatory katas in Shotokan and in the ALL JAPAN KARATE-DO FEDERATION. She seeks advice their study. 

It is the but I release of the katas, consistent in 65 steps and lasting one minute and half approximately. It represents the defense and counter attack againts eight opponents. The name Kanku is a combination of two characters. The first character is “Kan” (to see, see, or the name "a view"). The next character is Ku, it could represent many things: sky, emptiness, void, or air. The name Kanku frequently is translated like "to look at the sky". The word Dai means large. This kata is the biggest in two kata. The other kata in this couple is Kanku-Sho, and it is believed that it is a much younger version of this same kata.

Kanku-Dai has had five different names during its well-known history in Okinawa and Japón.  

A legendary Chinese diplomat nicknamed Kung Siang Chung supposedly, and he brought this kata from China to Okinawa. Other myths say that him creó the kata. Others say that their student, Sakugawa, creó the kata and it named him later I eat their teacher, Kung Siang Chung. The way okinawense of pronouncing the three kanji that constitute the name Kung Siang Chung is Ku Shan Ku.   

When O-Sensei Funakoshi took this kata to Japan, it renamed it so that he went more acceptable to Japanese. He left the same three Chinese characters - Kung Siang Chung - in their place, but it pronounced them with the Japanese inflection. The kanji is Ko Sho Kun pronounced in Japan. So, the name that became trained to the students of Funakoshi was Koshokun.   

In some point the name Koshokun was abandoned in favor of the name Kanku, and the suffix Dai was added when the kata Kanku-Sho was introduced in the repertoire of Shotokan 

The last work of Funakoshi in karate is the English text of Karate-Do Kyohan. This text was translated from Japanese to English for Ohshima Tsutomu, the leader of Karate of Shotokan of America. In that book, Sensei Ohshima translates the kanji for Kanku as Kwanku. Ohshima says that " Kwanku " is the pronunciation okinawense of the Japanese word Kanku. 

As a result, Kanku-Dai has had five names since 1921:  

             Kushanku   =>    Koshokun  =>   Kanku   =>   Kanku-Dai

                                                                            |====> Kwanku

The Sensei ITOSU divided the kata in the five HEIAN for its learning in the high schools. If he memorizes the HEIAN correctly, the domain of KANKU will be easy. 

Kanku-Dai is considered representative of Karate of Shotokan. 

Kanku-Dai deploys some techniques of quite typical Shotokan, and the kata it was supposedly the favorite kata of O-Sensei Funakoshi. He carried out it during their demonstration for the Crowned Prince (Hirohito) in 1922. 

5 - Tate Shuto Uke

Shizentai

11 - Uraken Uchi

Yoko Keage

12 - Chudan Shuto Uke

Kokutsu Dachi

16 - Gyaku Hanmi 

Jodan Shuto Uchi

20 - Gedan Kamae

Hidari Shizentai 

23 - Manji Gamae

Kokutsu Dachi

25 - Gedan Kamae

Hidari Shizentai

31 - Mae Enpi

Zenkutsu Dachi

33 - Migi Chudan Shuto Uke

Kokutsu Dachi

35 - Hidari Shuto Uke

Kokutsu Dachi

40 - Chudan Gyaku Zuki

Zenkutsu Dachi

42 - Migi Urazuki

Hiza Gamae

Kataashi Dachi

46 - Chudan Uchi Uke

Zenkutsu Dachi

49 - Chudan Gyaku Zuki

Zenkutsu Dachi

52 - Uraken Uchi

Yoko Keage

53 - Chudan Shuto Uke

Kokutsu Dachi

55 - Jodan Uraken Uchi

Kiba Dachi

56 - Chudan Tettsui Uchi

Kiba Dachi

57 - Enpi Uchi

Kiba Dachi

58 - Koshi Gamae

Kiba Dachi

59 - Gedan Barai

Kiba Dachi

60 - Ryo Ude Mawashi Uke

Kiba Dachi

60 - Lateral view

61 - Migi Otoshi Zuki

Kiba dachi

61 - Lateral view

62 - Jodan Shuto Juji Uke

Shizentai

62 - Lateral view

63 - Juji gamae

Moto Dachi

63 - Frontal view

64 A - Hidari Tobi Geri

64 A - Lateral view

64 - Migi Tobi Geri

(Nidan Geri)

64 - Lateral view

65 - Chudan Uraken Uchi

Zenkutsu Dachi

65 - Lateral view

Yame A

Yame D

Heishin

Yame