MATSUDA DEN DAITO RYU AIKIJUJUTSU RENSHINKAN LINEAGE
Daito ryu - Sokaku Takeda 武田 惣 角
Aizu, October 10, 1859 - April 25, 1943
Takeda Sokaku, was born on October 10, 1859 in the Takeda palace in Aizu, and followed his father's teachings of kenjutsu, bojutsu and especially daito-ryu, while also studying ono-ha itto-ryu at the Yokikan dojo with Shibuya Toda.
In fact, within the Takeda family, a martial art reserved for the members of the clan had been handed down for centuries, which is said to have been founded by Prince Teijun in the 9th century and then gradually passed on to the Tsunamoto and then Minamoto families, a family from which the shoguns, holders of temporal power in Japan, came for centuries.
Starting from the 12th century, Prince Saburo Yoshimitsu Minamoto would have called the daito-ryu school or even aikijutsu. Through the Takeda, a cadet branch of the Minamoto, the art had been transmitted up to those times, also known in late times as Aiki In Yo Ho, Yin and Yang method of Aiki.
From 1873 under the guidance of Sasakibara Kenkichi Takeda Sokaku as well as immersing himself in the study of Jikishinkage-ryu, he met many of the greatest sword masters of the time, members of the Kobusho (the official martial arts school of the Tokugawa shogunate). He mastered a large number of techniques and weapons including sword (ken), staff (bo), short staff (hankyu), throwing daggers (shuriken) and hozoin-ryu-style spear (yari). Then he undertook his musha-shugyo, a pilgrimage aimed at improving the art through confrontation and confrontation with other schools and other masters, visiting each dojo, testing and perfecting his martial knowledge wherever he went. Following the family journey in this, too, it is necessary to know that his father Soyoshi was a priest at a temple, he deepened his spiritual background through constant visits dedicated to prayer, devotion and ascetic practices in shrines such as Udomyojin in Kyushu, the Mount Futara in Nikko and Mount Haguro in the province of Dewa. Meanwhile his knowledge of the sword had become unmatched and he was feared as "the little Tengu of Aizu" (tengu are long-nosed demons, also renowned for their martial art skills). testing and perfecting his martial knowledge wherever he went.
Following the family journey in this, too, it is necessary to know that his father Soyoshi was a priest at a temple, he deepened his spiritual background through constant visits dedicated to prayer, devotion and ascetic practices in shrines such as Udomyojin in Kyushu, the Mount Futara in Nikko and Mount Haguro in the province of Dewa. Meanwhile his knowledge of the sword had become unmatched and he was feared as "the little Tengu of Aizu" (tengu are long-nosed demons, also renowned for their martial art skills). testing and perfecting his martial knowledge wherever he went. Following the family journey in this, too, it is necessary to know that his father Soyoshi was a priest at a temple, he deepened his spiritual background through constant visits dedicated to prayer, devotion and ascetic practices in shrines such as Udomyojin in Kyushu, the Mount Futara in Nikko and Mount Haguro in the province of Dewa.
Meanwhile his knowledge of the sword had become unmatched and he was feared as "the little Tengu of Aizu" (tengu are long-nosed demons, also renowned for their martial art skills). he deepened his spiritual background through constant visits dedicated to prayer, devotion and ascetic practices in shrines such as Udomyojin in Kyushu, Mount Futara in Nikko and Mount Haguro in the province of Dewa. Meanwhile his knowledge of the sword had become unmatched and he was feared as "the little Tengu of Aizu" (tengu are long-nosed demons, also renowned for their martial art skills). he deepened his spiritual background through constant visits dedicated to prayer, devotion and ascetic practices in shrines such as Udomyojin in Kyushu, Mount Futara in Nikko and Mount Haguro in the province of Dewa. Meanwhile his knowledge of the sword had become unmatched and he was feared as "the little Tengu of Aizu" (tengu are long-nosed demons, also renowned for their martial art skills).
In 1875, after an unsuccessful attempt to participate in the rebellion launched by Saigo Takamori in Satsuma against the forces of the new Meiji regime, repressed before he could cross the lines, he returned to Osaka and spent 10 years as a guest in the master's Kyoshin Meichi-ryu dojo. of Momonoi Shunzo sword. It was through Chikamasa Saigo Tanomo, former Chief Counselor of the Aizu domain, who later became a Shinto priest under the name of Hoshina Chikanori, that he learned oshikiuchi.
Sokaku received teaching in the arts of oshikuchi from Chikanori during his apprenticeship as a priest, which he never followed up, and has returned several times since then to visit his mentor. Under Chikanori's guidance he is said to have manifestly perfected miraculous understanding of others' minds and thoughts, and to have grasped every profound aspect of oshikiuchi. to give him the order to lay down his sword and return to the study of daito-ryu, which happened in 1889, at the age of 40, under the guidance of Tozaemon Takeda, a monk at the Reizan temple.
On May 12, 1898, Chikanori presented Takeda with a singular poem, transcribing it in the Sokaku register of inscriptions. One interpretation of Chikanori's words is that he is comparing the flow of a river to the flow of time. In fact, with the beginning of the Meiji period the age of the sword had come to an end, and whatever the degree of knowledge of a man of arms, he could no longer leave any mark or reach any goal. Consequently, it was time to seek and build one's way through jujutsu.
In 1899 he received authorization to teach, and shortly thereafter he decided to officially adopt the ancient name of daito-ryu.
From this time, Sokaku identified himself as a practitioner of both Daito-ryu aiki jujutsu and Ono-ha Itto-ryu and traveled throughout Japan teaching both arts to be recognized as the resuscitator (chuko-no-so) of the Daito. -ryu. Takeda Sokaku was the man who brought the art out of the secular and secular secret in which it had been handed down, and taught it to many students.
Although illiterate, he taught courses and recorded everything in special registers that he had the students fill in and sign directly (registers kept at the Honbu dojo in Abashiri) with impressive detail, which today allows us to reconstruct many events with incredible detail. He had many important students: ministers, admirals, generals, magistrates, powerful economic magnates of the turn of the century, police forces and even future martial arts masters including: Matsuda Hosaku, Takuma Hisa, Yoshi Sagawa, Yamamoto Kakuyoshi, Taiso Horikawa, Kodo Horikawa, Yoshita Kotaro, Morihei Ueshiba (founder of aikidō) and his son Takeda Tokimune (1915-1993).
Takeda Sokaku was not big and fat - he was no more than five feet tall - but his eyes were piercing and his techniques were almost supernatural. It is said that he was able to guess a person's past, present and future even before he knew him. His was elite teaching, reserved for law enforcement and high personalities, and as mentioned he never had a fixed dojo. Takeda Sokaku passed away on April 25, 1943, at the age of 83, while traveling to teach in Aomori Prefecture.
During his life Takeda Sensei taught about 30,000 students and some of them were politicians, military officers, judges, policemen and other high-ranking people from all over Japan. He has certified about 30 people as Kyōju Dairi (教授 代理, "representative instructor") including many famous martial artists (Yoshida Kotaro, founder of aikido Ueshiba Morihei, Matsuda Toshimi , Sagawa Yukiyoshi, Horikawa Kodo, Takuma Hisa, Yamamoto Kakuyoshi). Takuma Hisa Sensei and Masao Tonedate of Asahi News dojo received Menkyo kaiden in 1939
Sagawa Yukiyoshi, who was probably his highest student, received Menkyo Kaiden (免 許 皆 伝 full broadcast) in May 1938 and in September 1939 Seito-S ōden (正統総 傳 Total inherited transmissions).
Daito Ryu - Toshimi 'Hosaku' Matsuda
Sokaku Takeda is known to have taught a large number of students throughout his career. Some of them were holders of a kyoju-dairi license (教授 代理 - lit. "Representative Instructor [of Takeda]"), among which we find Morihei Ueshiba, founder of aikido. One such Takeda pupil was Toshimi Matsuda 松田 敏 美 伝 ・ 大 東流 合 気 柔 術 錬 心 舘, a little-known pioneer, although he had a great influence on later developments in the art. Toshimi Hosaku Matsuda (松田 敏 美), born in 1895, lived in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, during the time Takeda settled there (circa 1910-1930).
It was during the Hokkaido period that many of Daito-ryu's great masters studied with Takeda. Matsuda, a military officer, began studying Daito-ryu in June 1928 at the age of 33, as confirmed by an entry in Takeda's eimeiroku. He was a truly exceptional student since he received the kyoju-dairi 教授 代理 from his teacher.
Toshimi Matsuda, with his students. In the back row in the center is Hapkido GM Jang In Mok, and in the first row on the left is Hakko-ryu Jujutsu founder Ryuho Okuyama. It should be noted that this license was the highest degree granted by Takeda at that time and that while a dojo-cho was allowed to teach in its own dojo, a kyoju-dairi was also authorized to teach in other schools. Matsuda coincided as Takeda's student with Kodo Horikawa, the founder of Kodokai, and often mentioned him in his conversations according to Seigo Okamoto, founder of Roppokai. After receiving the kyoju-dairi, Matsuda opens his dojo in Asahikawa, the Shobukan Dojo (松 武館 道場) and establishes the Shobukai (松 武 会).
During his career he has had many students, some of whom have remained true to his direct line. Of them, Takeshi Maeda would become his successor. Others would eventually establish their own styles based on Matsuda's teachings.
Among his students is a Korean name who would later contribute to the growth of Hapkido in Korea. Furthermore, from 1930 to c. In 1936, he had as a student Yoshiharu Okuyama, better known as Ryuho Okuyama, and founder of Hakko-ryu. Among all of Matsuda's students, best known for keeping Daito-ryu's legacy, are undoubtedly Takeshi Maeda, Ryuho Okuyama, Masao Hayashima (founder of Doinjutsu) and Jang In Mok (precursor of Hwarangdo and Hapkido).
Daito Ryu - Takeshi Maeda Renshinkan
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Matsuda had the opportunity to visit Tokyo frequently because of his work, so he took advantage of this circumstance to regularly post advertisements in a newspaper about his Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu lectures. One of the many who responded to the announcement was Takeshi Maeda 前 田 武, a pharmacist by profession, who decided to visit Matsuda to receive some private lessons. Maeda, had only gained experience with Kodokan Judo and had never attended Koryu schools. So it was that he slowly fell in love with Matsuda's techniques and asked him to be accepted as a formal student. Thus, whenever Matsuda sensei moved to the capital, Maeda would go to him periodically to receive private instruction at the Shobukan Dojo in Asahikawa.It should be remembered that until the late 1920s, Daito-ryu was not formally taught in dojos, but through seminars and private lessons.The forms of Daito-ryu that Matsuda taught Maeda were very similar to those taught by Takeda to his other students. At the end of the war, Maeda settles in his hometown, Omama, Gunma Prefecture, and opens the Renshinkan Dojo (練 心 館 道場) where he teaches Daito-ryu. During this time, Maeda spread the Daito Ryu through seminars in the prefectures of Nagano, Gunma and Tochigi, and also gave a demonstration of Daito-ryu to the self-defense forces of Japan (自衛隊, Jieitai) in Gunma in 1963. Furthermore, Kenji Tomiki, student of Morihei Ueshiba, he went to see him to confirm that what he learned from Ueshiba was really Daito-ryu. You will find more news in the books published on Amazon
Daito ryu - Hakkoryu - Okuyama Yoshiharu (Yoshiji)
Okuyama Yoshiharu (Yoshiji) was born on February 21, 1901, in Yachi-cho, Nishi Mu-rayama, Yamagata Prefecture, into a family of former samurai from the upper Mogami River area. Not much is known about his early life, except that he was active in various bujutsu-ryu (martial arts systems) and had studied traditional oriental medicine.
In 1924, he entered one of the most prestigious government schools of that period called Tokyo Seiji Gakko (Tokyo School of Government), where he soon excelled as a speaker. By the time he graduated (1927) and distinguished himself as the prime minister at the first congress of the Imperial Oratory Youth. After graduation he was also known beyond Japan, in Hokkaido. It was right here in Asahikawa, where through his government work contacts, he was first introduced to Shihan Toshimi (Hosaku) Matsuda, who was teaching Daito Ryu Aiki Ju Jutsu at the Dojo Shobukan at the time. Matsuda, a tough Japanese, born in Hokkaido and former apprentice of the founder of Daito-ryu, Shihan Somi (Sokaku) Takeda, soon discovered that Mr. Okuyama was an excellent pupil and so he taught all about the techniques of the ryu.
Okuyama has always maintained a great relationship with Maeda, So while Maeda inherited the direct succession of Daito-ryu from Toshimi Matsuda, his friend Okuyama ended up focusing on spreading his new art: Hakko Ryu Jujutsu.
