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E-zine for Japanese Traditional and Culture 11

Nummer 11 – Number 11 ______

Kumamoto Enmei ryu Tetsujin Nito ryu JJiiuu jjuuttssuu Niten Ichi ryu Zelfverdediging Nito ryu 11 July 2012

Uitgever - Publisher: Nederlandse academie voor traditionele krijgskunsten & Shin tai ryu.

Dutch Academy for Traditional Martial Arts & Shin tai ryu.

Redactie – Editor: drs. Mark W.J.M. Sterke, Ph.D., 9e dan

ISSN 2211-2588

Jiu Zelfverdediging is een electronisch blad dat publiceert over de Japanse traditionele krijgskunsten en cultuur.

Jujutsu Self-defence is an electronic magazine which introduces the Japanese traditional martial arts and culture.

© 2012, Tilburg, The Netherlands, Mark W.J.M. Sterke. All rights reserved.

Opmerking – Note: Jiu jutsu Zelfverdediging is het boek Historical Martial Places of Japan in artikelen, vanaf deel 6.

Jujutsu Self-defence is ‘Historical Martial Places of Japan’ in articles, from part 6 on.

This article is a part of a future photobook written by Mark Sterke. This book will be complete published in 2014. All materials belongs to the collection of Shin tai ryu and/or the author and the sources are specified.

www.bushi.eu www.shintairyu.nl A tsukubai (Himitsu take niwa, Tilburg, The Netherlands), a hidden relation to Dokkodo from Miyamoto Musashi.

E-zine for Japanese Traditional Martial Arts and Culture Cover: Painting from maki-mono from the Tetsujin Nito ryu (collection author). In this preview several pages are missing (complete 56 pages). Kumamoto Enmei ryu, Tetsujin Nito ryu, Niten Ichi ryu (Miyamoto Musashi), and Nito ryu

Kumamoto castle was build by Kato Kiyomasa in the early 17th century. The famous sword-god (Kengo) Miyamoto Musashi, the founder of Niten Ichi ryu, Musashi ryu and Niten Ichi ryu (Kenjutsu) lived his last years of his life at Higo Kumamoto (Kumamoto-ken).

The weapons of Musashi are displayed at the Unganzenji temple.

Miyamoto Musashi Fujiwara no Harunobu (1584?-1645) Miyamoto Musashi is undoubtful the best known swordsman of Japan. The story written by Eiji Yoshikawa is fictional but very nice. In reality lots of the live-history of Musashi is not known. He was born in 1582 or 1584 at Mimasaka but also possible is at Harima. Already in his youth he was practicing with the bokuto (wooden sword) and probably learned a lot of his (foster) grandfather but he was also an autodidact and probably left-handed. His first dual was against Arima Kihei (Shinto ryu). At his 17th he fought in the battle of Sekigahara. After that when he was around his 21st he went to Kyoto to have many duels and one famous was against the Yoshioka ryu. At 1611 he defeated a famous swordsman of the Chujo ryu, Sasaki Kojiro from Iwakuni. He was at that time 29. Between his 13th and 29th he fought about 60 duels and won all! In the era between his 29th and 57th years of age we do not know anything about his life. When he was 57 he got work at Kumamoto by lord Hosokawa Tadatoshi. At that time (1641) he wrote his first work: Heiho Sanjugo-kajo (Strategy in thirty-five article; see text in this book). Three years later, at his 60th, he probably wrote (this is not sure) Gorin no sho (The Book of the Five Rings) at the Reigando cave. It was 1644. The original document does not exists anymore, there are only copies left. In many languages there are translations of this famous classic. At his 62nd year of his life he wrote Dokkodo (The Path of Aloneness), it was 1645 and soon after he died. There are some mysterious works of which is said that Musashi wrote: Heidokyo, Jitchi no Den and Goho no Tachi Michisho. But this is not sure. Musashi himself had over the last years only a small number of students in Kenjutsu and during his many duels he made the famous five Two Sword techniques (Nitojutsu) of which nowadays are five techniques in three surviving traditions: Todaha Niten Ichi ryu, Hyoho Niten Ichi ryu and Heiho Niten Ichi ryu (see Japanese text in this book).

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The five scrolls of Gorin no sho, The Book of the Five Rings.

The complete text of Dokkodo written by Musashi in 1645, the year he died. This plate is at Musashizuka park at Kumamoto.

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These plates are also at Musashizuka park. These are the five stances (kamae) with the names of the five Nitojutsu techniques of the Niten Ichi ryu traditions (in this book all techniques are on photographs). Below is the original curriculum of the Niten Ichi ryu including Tachi waza, Kodachi waza, Nito waza and others. Next page: Musashi kills a giant nue.

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Page 20 & 21: Japanese information on the history of the mentioned Nito ryu schools. Page 22: Enmei ryu Ken lineage. Page 20-22 are from the most important study on Miyamoto Musashi (see below):

Page 23: Enmei ryu & Niten Ichi ryu lineage (Nihon no Budo encyclopedia, Kodansha). Page 24-26: Japanese information on Hyoho-, Heiho- and Nodaha Niten Ichi ryu (Nihon Kobudo Soran). Current 11th generation headmaster (soke) of the Hyoho-style is Iwami Toshio at Kokura. 9

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