KEMARI is a kind of the football game that was started in the Yamato-Imperial-Court era (about 1,400 years ago). There are no victory or defeat. In the Imperial Court, a ball meeting is often held, and description of a ball meeting is often looked at by the ancient documents after the middle of the Heian era. It also came to be performed briskly by samurai class at the Kamakura periodand. Through the Muromachi to the Edo period, it spread even through common people gradually and became the subject matter in various stories as Yokyoku, Kyogen, Ukiyo-zoshi and so on. Marco Polo, an Italian traveler who stayed in China, heard Kemari by Japanese Kemari player who was invited to Chinese court. Marco Polo brought Kemari to Europe and it developed into soccer. Kemari is an origin of soccer.