So Rim Sa Churl Kwon Do
Yong Dong Po/Korea
circa 1900 (1)
Shorinji Tekken Ryu
Mishima-shi, Shizuoka-ken/Japan
1956
Albert C. Church, Jr. (2)
Shorinji Tekken Ryu
Tokyo, Japan
1967
Nippon Kobudo Kamishinryu
Tokyo, Japan
1969
Robert Kelly (3)
Shorinji Tekken Ryu/
Nippon Kobudo Kamishinryu
Charleston, S.C./U.S.A.
1980
Ted Petit (4)
Nippon Kobudo Kamishinryu
Charleston, S.C./U.S.A.
1995
(1) Dates represent the lineage transfer year
to each head family.
(2) The kanji for the system name would
read as follows:
Shorinji / Tetsu / Ken Ryu
When written or spoken as one name,
TetsuKen becomes TekKen respectively.
(3) Robert Kelly was named as the inheritor
of the Shorinji Tekken Ryu/Kamishinryu
system by Albert C. Church in 1971.
(4) Ted Petit was named as the inheritor of the
Kamishinryu system by Robert Kelly in
1995.
**All family names are presented with surnames
last.
