Karate Kenpo: The Art of Self-defense is one of the earliest written works of Kenwa Mabuni's on the fledgling art of Karatedo and was intended as an introduction to this art of self-defence. Karate Kenpo provides a rare glimpse of Mabuni's ideas about the history and development of Karatedo on Okinawa. It also introduces the fundamentals of his art including warm-up, basic techniques, stances, training equipment and the fundamental kata San Chin, and the advanced kata Seiunchin.