The oldest school that can be found in documents is "Nihon Denryu Heiho Motobu Kenpo" (Japan's traditional tactics of Motobu Kenpo), or the Motobu-ryu school, which were named in the Taisho period by Choki MOTOBU.
最古の空手流派は、本部朝基が大正時代に命名した日本伝流兵法本部拳法（本部流）が、文献上確認できるものとしては最も古い。