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(1587-1671) Chinese martial artist and pottery master. According to legend, in 1638, during the Tokugawa period, a Chinese Pottery master name Yuan-pin Ch'en arrived from China to serve as a ceramics instructor for the daimyo of Owari, Japan. Among his other duties, Ch'en instructed ronin in the art of seizing a man without the use of weapons.
Some sources credit Ch'en with the introduction of ch'uan-fa and jujutsu to Japan, a theory that is disputed on the grounds that a weaponless technique called yawara was in existence long before Ch'en came to Japan. Ch'en probably introduced the Okinawan sai, later adopted and modified the Japanese police into the jitte. Ch'en is also refered to as Chin Gempin, Chen Yuan Ping, Ch'en Yuan-Pin, and Ching-Ping. | ” | | |
