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A Buddhist monk who came to Japan from China around 1559, bringing with him his knowledge of what the Japanese referred to as kempo or kenpo—the ‘law of the fist’. Following Chin Gen Pinh’s demonstrations of what he knew, parts of kempo were quickly assimilated into the type of jujitsu being taught to samurai warriors at that time.