GOKENKI
(1852 - 1940)

Wu Xiangi or Wu Hsien Kuei, best known as GOKENKI a Chinese tea merchant and White Crane gungfu practitioner. Gokenki worked for the Eiko Chako Tea Company and taught White Crane in Okinawa between 1912 and his death in 1940. Gokenki was an occasional member of the 1920's Kenkyukai, and associated with many of Okinawa's great masters during this time.

Gokenki was a respectful nickname, a title given by the people that means "great or very honorable master" (this nickname is equivalent to "Ryuryuko"...).

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