The Ryuei-Ryu style was introduced to Okinawa sometime between the years 1870 and 1880 by Norisato Nakaima. Born in Kume, Naha, Norisato was a good scholar and at the age of 19 went to Fuzhou in China for advanced studies. While there, a former guard to the Chinese embassies in Ryukyu (Okinawa) introduced him to a Chinese boxing teacher known as Ryu Ryu Ko. Norisato was accepted as a disciple and after five or six years of practice, received a certificate of graduation. Just before leaving China, in order to further his experience of the martial arts, he traveled in the Fujian, Canton and Beijing areas where he collected many weapons and brought them home with him. Norisato Nakaima passed his Chinese boxing style in secret to his son Kenchu, who in turn taught it to his son Kenko Nakaima. In 1971, Kenko Nakaima took on a group of schoolteachers as students. This action was not taken out of disrespect for family’s oath, but from an understanding that such customs of secrecy was no longer relevant in the present-day society.
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