Hasegawa Eishin-ryū
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Hasegawa Eishin-ryū (長谷川英信流) is a iaijutsu koryū founded by Hasegawa Chikaranosuke Eishin (or Hidenobu)(長谷川主税助英信) as a continuation of the teachings he received in Shinmei Musō-ryū. After the death of the eleventh headmaster, Ōguro Motoemon Kiyokatsu, the school split into two branches or ha. One branch, the Shimomura-ha (下村派), was renamed by its fourteenth headmaster Hosokawa Yoshimasa to Musō Shinden Eishin-ryū (無雙神傳英信流).[3] After studying under Hosokawa, Nakayama Hakudō created his own school which he called Musō Shinden-ryū (夢想神伝流) in 1932.[4][5] The other branch, the Tanimura-ha (谷村派), was renamed Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū during the Taishō era (1912-1926),[6] by its seventeenth headmaster, Ōe Masaji, who incorporated the Shimomura-ha techniques and rationalized the curriculum.[7]
Hasegawa Eishin-ryū (長谷川英信流) | |
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Ko-ryū | |
Foundation | |
Founder | Hasegawa Chikaranosuke Eishin (長谷川 主税助 英信) |
Date founded | c.1716-1736[1] |
Period founded | Late Muromachi period |
Current information | |
Current headmaster | None. |
Arts taught | |
Art | Description |
iaijutsu | Sword-drawing art |
kenjutsu | Sword art |
Ancestor schools | |
Shinmei Musō-ryū, Musō Jikiden-ryū (disputed[2]). | |
Descendant schools | |
Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū, Musō Shinden-ryū. |