There were a lot of great Kemari players throughout each era, however, FUJIWARA no Narimichi of the latter Heian period was said to be an especially unprecedented expert, who, in later Kemari literature, was called the 'saintly kicker.'
各時代において多数の名足を生み出したが、平安後期の藤原成通は特に希代の名人と言われ、後世の蹴鞠書でも「蹴聖」と呼ばれている。