Meifu Shinkage Ryu
Meifu Shinkage-ryū ( Japanese 明 府 真 影 流 ) is a modern Shurikenjutsu school that was founded in the 1970s by Chikatoshi Someya ( 染 谷 親 俊 , Someya Chikatoshi ). It finds its roots mainly in the Shurikenjutsu of the Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū ( 天 真正 伝 香 取 神道 流 ).
description
Meifu Shinkage-ryū is a modern Shuriken-Jutsu school. It was founded in the 1970s by Chikatoshi Someya. Someya was a student of the Katori Shinto-ryu under Yoshio Sugino. Even if the throwing style used in Meifu Shinkage-ryū differs from that used in Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū, Someya-sensei took this technique from Katori Shintō-ryū and refined it by making it shorter, faster and executed even more covertly.
Meifu Shinkage-ryū is a relatively small school with about 30 permanent students who train in Tokyo under the direct guidance of the current sōke , Yasuyuki Ōtsuka. This school consists almost exclusively of students who also train other martial arts.
There is a special type of shuriken called the Meifu Shinkage-ryū shuriken, but Ōtsuka also teaches the use of other shuriken. For this reason, his students often train with Shuriken of many different, mostly already extinct, styles.
techniques
Shuriken Jutsu
- Kamae
- Shizentai
- Chudan no Kamae
- Gedan no kamae
- Jodan no Kamae
- Waza
- Shomen Uchi
- Gyaku Uchi
- Dosoku Uchi
- Shitate Uchy
- Za Uchi
- Aruki Uchi
- Hashiri Uchi
- Ne Uchi
Fundo Kusari
- Kamae
- Fuko
- Zanshin
- Osame
- Hikitori
- Waza
- Metsubushi
- Yokomen Uchi
- Yokoichi Monji
- Kesa Uchi
- Hachinoji Uchi
Dojos
- Japan: Tokyo (Hombu Dojo), Osaka
- USA: Dallas (Texas) and Santa Clara (California)
- Spain: Barcelona
- Germany: Bremen
- Germany: Buchholz in the Nordheide (Kampen)
- Finland: Helsinki
- England: Manchester
- Russia: Moscow
- Belgium
- Italy
- Mexico
literature
- Someya, Chikatoshi (2001) Shuriken Giho
- Someya, Chikatoshi (1980) Shuriken-Jutsu Nyumon
- Someya, Chikatoshi (1985) Kakushibuki-Jutsu Nyumon
- Someya, Chikatoshi (2001) Shuriken
- Ôtsuka, Yasuyuki (2004) Shuriken Jutsu no Susume
- Ôtsuka, Yasuyuki (2010) How to learn Meifu Shinkage-ryu
- Ôtsuka, Yasuyuki (2011) Meifu Shinkage Ryu - Fundô-kusarijutsu & Shurikenjutsu ISBN 978-3-924862-24-4
- Interview with Yasuyuki Ōtsuka by Thomas Feldmann in the German martial arts magazine Toshiya No. 1, 2010
- Meifu Shinkage Ryu Shurikenjutsu Suomessa Bodo-Magazine Budoka No. 1, 2009 (Finnish)
- V. Gruzanski, Charles (1991) Ninja Weapons - Chain and Shuriken
Videos
- Someya, Chikatoshi (1987): Meifu-Shinkage-ryu Shuriken Jutsu
- Someya, Chikatoshi (1992): Shurikenjutsu and Kusarijutsu
- Ōtsuka, Yasuyuki (2004): Hiden! Shurikenjutsu
Web links
- Meifu Shinkage Ryu Official Homepage (English)
- Meifu Shinkage Ryu Official Homepage (Japanese)