Tsuji Gettan Sukemochi

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Tsuji Gettan Sukemochi ( Japanese 辻 月 丹 資 茂 ; * 1649 in Masugi, Kōka-gun , Ōmi province (today: Kamimasugi, Kōnan-chō, Kōka , Shiga prefecture ); † June 23, 1728 in Edo (today: Tokyo ) ) was a scholar , philosopher , samurai , swordsman, and founder of the Mugai-ryu and Mugai-ryu Iai sword styles .

He was born in 1649 , the son of a henchman of Sasaki Takatsuna (a ninja from Iga ), Tsuji Dayu . In 1662 he began to study Yamaguchi-ryu Kenjutsu with Yamaguchi Bokushinsai in Kyto and received the Menkyo Kaiden teaching license to open his own dojo in Edo in 1675 .

He felt connected to the abbot Sekitan Zenshi and studied with him Zen , classical Chinese literature and, after his death, with his successor Sinshu in the temple Azabu Kyokoji.

After attaining enlightenment ( Satori ) he developed ( 1694 ) the sword style Mugai-ryu based on a poem by Sekitan Zenshi ( Ippo jitsu mugai Kenkon toku ittei Suimo ho nomitsu Dochaku soku kosei ). Taga Jikyosai Morimasa, Sōke of Jikyoryu Jikyoryua Iai passed his techniques on to him, so that he later added the addition Iai .

Since his house was destroyed in the great fire in Edo in 1695, science can only refer to traditions that state that he was the daimyo of Tosa ( Tosa province ) Yamauchi Toyomasa ( 山 内 豊 昌 ), the daimyō of Umayabashi ( Kōzuke province ) Sakai Tadataka ( 酒井 忠 挙 ), the daimyō of Iwatsuki ( Musashi Province ) Ogasawara Nagashige ( 小 笠原 長 重 ), about 30 Shōmyō (feudal lords with lower incomes), 150 Jikisan (direct vassals of the Shōgun ) and over 900 Baishin ( aftervasals ) taught.

Two main directions have developed from his school: Edo (capital of Musashi) and later from it Himeji (capital of the later fiefdom of the Sakai family Himeji).

In 1710 he was supposed to demonstrate his fighting style in front of the 5th Tokugawa Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi , who died before that.

His adopted son Tsuji Kimata Sukehide succeeded him as the second Soke.

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