Ryushin Shouchi Ryu
Ryushin Shouchi Ryu ( Japanese 柳 心照 智 流 ) is a school of Kobudō (Japanese, "ancient art of war") specializing in iaijutsu (art of quick sword-drawing) and was founded in 2006 by Kawabata Terutaka. The origins of the Ryushin Shouchi Ryu can be traced back to the Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu, a sideline of the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu. The current head of the Ryushin Shouchi Ryu is Yahagi Kunikazu.
history
Ryushin Shouchi Ryu is a branch of the Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu, a school founded by Tose Yosazaemon Osamune ( Japanese 十 瀬 与 三 左衛 門 長 宗 , approx. 1540 to approx. 1600) in the area of the Eiroku Era (1558–1570), specializing in iaijutsu and kenjutsu. Tose was a land-owning samurai from Hitachi Province . In his twenties he traveled to the Katori Shrine to study Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu under the third head of the Iizasa Wakasa no Kami Morinobu School. After five years of training, he received menkyo kaiden (master's license) and continued his studies in the Kashima shrine. In Kashima, Tose received enlightenment and in an oracle a catalog of techniques by Takemikazuchi was revealed to him. After this divine inspiration he created Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu; for this he used the "Tenshinsho" (true and correct transmission of the deity of the Katori shrine - Futsunushi) from the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu and added the term "revelation of the power of the self" (Jigen), which he received after his spiritual examination Kashima Shrine came to mind in this context. He then traveled to Satsuma, where he met his future successor, Kaneko Shinkuro Morisada ( Japanese 金子 新 九郎 盛 貞 , approx. 1520 to approx. 1585).
The third head of the Terasaka School, Yakuro Masatsune ( Japanese 赤 坂 弥 九郎 政 雅 , 1567–1594), was introduced to Kaneko at the age of 13 when he was about to begin studying the sword arts to avenge his father's death. By the time he was 17, Terasaka had mastered the Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu and he avenged his father's death at the age of 19. Shortly afterwards he went to Kyoto to become a monk in the Tennen Temple of the Soto Zen School, where he took the Buddhist dharma name Zenkitsu (善 吉, also read Zenkichi). In 1588 Togo Shigekata became Zenkitsu's best student, mastering Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu in less than a year. Togo Shigekata ( Japanese 東 郷 重 位 , 1560–1643) combined Taisha Ryu, which he had previously learned from its founder, Marume Kurandonosuke Tessai, and the Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu to Jigen Ryu. According to tradition, Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu remained a well-kept secret within the Jigen-Ryu and Yakumaru-Jigen-Ryu lineages and was only transmitted through a number of dai (series of non-blood-related school heads) for close to 400 years.
The Tenshisho Jigen Ryu experienced a revival under the 27th Grand Master, Ueno Yasuyuki Genshin ( Japanese 上 野 靖 之 源 心 , 1913–1972) when he began teaching in Asakusa, Tokyo and continued to teach until his death in 1972. At this time Kawabata Terutaka ( Japanese 河 端 照 孝 , born July 12, 1940) began his sword training in Sogo Budo Shobukan, which was founded by his father in 1963 and was under the direction of Ueno Yasuyuki Genshin. After Ueno's death, Kawabata continued his training and eventually opened the Seiseikan Dojo in Akabane, Tokyo, where he founded Ryushin Jigen Ryu in 2006. In 2008, his best student Yahagi Kunikazu ( Japanese 矢 作 訓 一 , born April 5, 1948) became the second head of the Ryushin Jigen Ryu.
In 2011, the school's original name, Ryushin Jigen Ryu, was changed to Ryushin Shouchi Ryu. to make the purpose of the school even clearer: the cultivation of the mind and the development of the body through rigorous, rigorous training. The name Ryushin Shouchi Ryu was chosen by the founder of the school, Kawabata Terutaka. Ryushin ( Japanese 柳 心 ) means “spirit or heart of the willow tree” and symbolizes the idea of a tree that does not lose its leaves even in winter, while Shouchi ( Japanese 照 智 ) can be translated as “wisdom shining brightly”. Together, these signs convey the sense of "establishing a state of immobile wisdom in the everyday world on the basis of a strong and flexible body and mind."
Today Ryushin Shouchi Ryu is practiced around the globe with several schools in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Every year, Yahagi officially goes on a trip to hold trainings abroad, where he is warmly welcomed by his overseas students. Ryushin Shouchi Ryu is also part of the annual Kobudo (Kobudo Hono Embu Taikai) event at Katori Shrine, an event that has been going on for over 25 years.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 正 誠 館 の 沿革. (No longer available online.) In: seiseikan.jp. Archived from the original on August 11, 2016 ; Retrieved July 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c 天 眞 正 自 源流 と は. In: jigenryu.jp. Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu website, accessed July 5, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c In the shadow of Edo castle. In: budojapan.com. Budo Japan, accessed June 30, 2016 .
- ↑ a b David A. Hall: Encyclopedia of Japanese martial arts . 1st edition. Kodansha USA, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-56836-410-0 , pp. 515-516 .
- ↑ a b c Kiyoshi Watatani, Tadachika Yamada: 武 芸 流派 大事 典 - Bugei ryūha daijiten . Tōkyō Kopī Shuppanbu, Tokyo 1978, OCLC 43082139 , p. 599 .
- ↑ a b 新 撰 組 と 剣 豪 の 話 剣 豪 東 郷 重 位 - Shinsenkumi to kengō no hanashi kengō tōgō shigeru-i. In: flamboyant.jp. Retrieved July 9, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Kōzō Kaku, Yūji Kishi: 日本 武術 ・ 武 道 大事 典 = Encyclopedia of budo, the military arts of Japan . Bensei Shuppan, Tokyo 2015, ISBN 978-4-585-20032-1 , pp. 78 .
- ↑ a b 2015 Kokusai Budoin, IMAF All Japan Budo Exhibition . In: Gendo . No. 1 . Kokusai Budoin, IMAF, Tokyo 2015, p. 2 ( imaf.com [PDF]).
