• Ninpo is a traditional Japanese Martial Arts and Spiritual training way that dates back 54 generations.
• The Grandmaster of the system is Tanemura Shoto, a male decendant of one of the original Samurai and Iga Ninja families of Japan. 
  
• Ninpo is a holistic system teaching unarmed combat, Ju-Jutsu and the Samurai and Ninja weapons system.
• The Grandmaster of the Genbukan (Tanemura Shoto) is the inheritor of his family’s martial arts, and that of some of the oldest and most respected schools of Traditional Japanese Martial Arts. Grandmaster Tanemura has trained for 50 years with over 9 different Grandmaster teachers, i.e. Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Masaharu Kimura, Kinbei Sato,  getting from each of these Grandmasters, Soke rank, scrolls, and all teachings (Kuden)  in their schools of Ju-Jutsu, Nin-Nutsu and various weapons systems.
• One of these teachers was Chinese Ba Gua (Pakkua) Grandmaster Li Zu Ming. Li Zu Ming passed on to Grandmaster Tanemura Shoto, the Grandmaster rank in Ba Gua (Pakkua), scrolls and all teachings (Kuden) and secrets of Ba Gua (Pakkua) complete to the Grandmaster level in 1991. Also, as part of this Tanemura Sensei was taught the highest points of Qi-Gong and Chin-na
  
• The Genbukan System teaches students of the Genbukan both Japanese Traditional Martial Arts of, Ju-Jutsu, Tai-Jutsu, Biken-Jutsu, Bo-Jutsu, Shuriken-Jutsu and Chinese Ba Gua (with Imperial Qi Gong, and Chin-na).

Ninpo is for you if

• You are looking to protect yourself without having to enter fighting tournaments.
• You seek to protect yourself without having to become an aggressive person.
• You do not believe that tournaments are necessary to learn effective self-defence skills.
• You would rather avoid a fight than win a fight.
• You seek to learn a path that combines both spiritual and physical training in balance.

Ninpo is not for you if you

• Believe that fighting tournaments are necessary to develop effective self-defence abilities.
• Desire to defeat others in fighting tournaments.
• Believe that you should never back down.
• Believe that you must harness aggression to be effective.
• Regard yourself as a Fighter.

Philosophy of Ninpo

• Never resist force with force.
• Train to live in harmony with your self, Nature and society.
• Avoid fighting and only use Martial Arts as the last option.
• Fighting technique must be balanced with Spiritual training. 
• Train to not let insults provoke you into anger.