KENPO/KEMPO - KARATE
1392 Chinese Kenpo introduced in Okinawa as
a group of 36 experts arrived from Fukien
Province, China
Zhang Xue Li
Chinese emissary in Okinawa, 1663

Combination of Tode and Okinawan Native
Style 1477
Yueh Fei Hsing-yi

Chatan Yara (c. 1685)

Kushanku/Kwang Shang Fu
(?-1761) Chinese Kenpo

Kuniyoshi Sensei
Karate

Takahara Peichin
(1683-1760)

Tode Sakugawa (1733-1815)
Chinese Kenpo

Karyu Uku (1800-50)
Kishin Teruya (1804-64)
Tomari-Te
Kosaku Matsumura
(1829-98)
Tomari-Te

Matsu Higa (1647-1721)

Master Iwah
Chuan Fa

Liu Liu Kung
Kempo in China's
Fukien province

Sokon Matsumura (1806-94)
Shuri-Te
Kentsu Yabu
(1866-1937)
Karate

Choki Motobu
(1871-1944 )
Okinawan Kempo

Yasutsune Itosu
(1830-1915)
Shuri-Te

Kanryu Higashionna
(1853-1915)
Naha-Te

Yasutsune Azato
Shuri-Te

Gichin Funakoshi
(1868-1957)
Mizuho Mutsu (1898 – 1970)
Okinawan Karate,
Kamesuke Higaonna (1905-68?)
Shotokan Karate
Karate Kenpo

To Shotokan
In Jujitsu

Chojun Miagi Kenwa Mabuni
(1888-1953) (1887-1952)
Goju-Ryu
Shito-Ryu

Thomas Miyashiro (1915-77)

T'ung Gee Hsing

James Mitose (1916-81)
Kaga Ha Kosho
Shorei-Ryu Kempo Jujitsu

Hironori Ohtsuka
(1892-1982)
Wado-Ryu

William K.S. Chow 1914-87
Chinese Kara-Ho Kenpo

Robert Trias (1923-89)
Shuri-Ryu

Ed Parker 1931-90
American Kenpo

Modern Schools of Kenpo/Kempo and Karate