Kosokun, Kū Shankū, Kung Hsiang Ch'un, Kwang Shang Fu, Ku Shan Ku, Koshokun, Kwanku, Ko Sokun, Gong Xiang Fu. He was reputedly an expert in Shaolin quan fa from Fukien province and came to Okinawa in or around 1756 as a Chinese government emissary, settling with the "36 Families" of Chinese emigrants