When Gichin Funakoshi brought karate to Japan, he renamed Chintō (meaning approximately "fighter to the east") to Gankaku (meaning "crane on a rock"), possibly to avoid anti-Chinese sentiment of the time. He also included the use of high side kicks (yoko keri keage) instead of the original front kicks (mae- geri keage) and modified the actual pattern of movement, or embusen, to a more linear layout, similar to the other Shotokan kata.
Gichin Funakoshi introduced karate to Japan by renaming Chintō (meaning roughly "fighter from the east") to Gankaku (signifying "crane on a rock"), possibly to avoid anti-Chinese feelings. He also used high side kicks instead of front kicks and altered the movement pattern, or embusen, to match other Shotokan kata.