A Japanese named Nakano Michiomi -- he later changed his name to So Doshin -- incorporates his martial art school as a Kongo Zen Buddhist religious order. (So said that he taught martial arts mostly as a way of attracting young people to Buddhism, and that it was the latter, not the martial arts, that would make them better people.) However, the tax breaks given religious orders were probably a consideration, too. Until 1972, So said that he was the twenty-first grandmaster of an esoteric northern Shaolin system called Iher Man Thuen. What caused him to change his mind was a Japanese court ruling that his style was not Chinese, but instead a mixture of karate (perhaps Wado-ryu) and jujutsu (perhaps Hakko-ryu). Consequently, the style’s name was changed from "Shorinji Kempo," meaning "Shaolin Temple kung fu," to "Nippon Shorinji Kempo," meaning "Japanese Shaolin Fist-Way."

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Martial Art founded by Michiomi Nakano better known as Doshin So. It is a Japanese version of The Shaolin Quan. It was part of a number of triads where several boxing forms were thought. His path crosses the one of Kin Ryu, founder of the Jukendo style. Later he meets Wei Lao Cho, who teaches him the internal style, known in Japan as Giwamon Kempo. In 1936 he becomes the successor of Wei Lao also known as Bunta and receives his new name Doshin So. Later he becomes a follower of Okuyama Densei founder of Hakko Aiki Jutsu, also know as Hakko Ryu JuJutsu. In 47, he officially starts the Shorinji Kempo.

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