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According to old chronicles, kempō was first brought to Japan by a Chinese called Chin Gempin26 in the Edo period. He was said to have learned kempō at the Songshan Shaolin temple and was praised to be a true genius. He was profoundly knowledgeable not only about Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism but also about arts like calligraphy, brush painting and poetry, or crafts like pottery, making of sweets and preparation of medicinal herbs, and also about acupuncture or moxibustion27. After his arrival in Nagasaki he traveled on the main island Honshū up to the region of present Nagoya. He is reported to have been received three times by the shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu and to have met many other lords to speak about his knowledge and show his abilities. Fukuno Masakatsu Shichirouemon and Ibaragi Sensai developed the Kitō style of Japanese jūjutsu after having been instructed by Chin Gempin.

There are other styles of jūjutsu whose roots can be found in China such as the famous Yōshin ryū that was created in Nagasaki by the physician Akiyama Shirōzaemon in the beginning of the Edo period after he had studied kempō during a journey in China. The Yōshin style became the basis for the Tenshin Shinyō style, which together with the Kitō style was the material Kanō Jigorō used to create modern jūdō.