Hasegawa Eishin-ryū

Hasegawa Eishin-ryū
(長谷川英信流)
Traditional Japanese martial art
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.

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, was transformed by its last headmaster, Nakayama Hakudō, into the style now known as Musō Shinden-ryū. The other branch, the Tanimura-ha, was renamed Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū by its seventeenth headmaster, Ōe Masamichi, who incorporated the Shimomura-ha techniques and rationalized the curriculum.[3]

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Lineage

Here is the lineage of Hasegawa Eishin-ryū and its two branches up until Nakayama Hakudō and Ōe Masamichi. It is interesting to note that Hayashi Masu no Jō Masanari, the twelfth headmaster as recognized by the Tanimura-ha was in fact a direct disciple of Matsuyoshi Teisuke Hisanari, the twelfth headmaster as recognized by the Shimomura-ha.[4]

Jinsuke-Eishin mainline[5]

  1. Hayashizaki Jinsuke Shigenobu
  2. Tamiya Heibei Shigemasa
  3. Nagano Muraku Nyūdō Kinrōsai
  4. Momo Gumbei Mitsuhige
  5. Arikawa Shōzaemon Munetsugu
  6. Banno Dan'emon no Jō Nobusada
  7. Hasegawa Chikaranosuke Eishin
  8. Arai Seitetsu Kiyonobu
  9. Hayashi Rokudayū Morimasa
  10. Hayashi Yasudayū Seisho
  11. Ōguro Motoemon Kiyokatsu

Shimomura-ha[6]

  1. Matsuyoshi Teisuke Hisanari
  2. Yamakwa Kyūzō Yukikatsu
  3. Shimomura Mōichi Sadamasa
  4. Hosokawa Yoshimasa
  5. Nakayama Hakudō

Tanimura-ha[7]

  1. Hayashi Masu no Jō Masanari
  2. Yōda Yorikatsu
  3. Hayashi Yadayū Masayori
  4. Tanimura Kame no Jō Yorikatsu
  5. Gotō Magobei Masasuke
  6. Ōe Masamichi

Notes

  1. ^ Draeger and Warner, p. 85
  2. ^ Draeger and Warner, p. 86.
  3. ^ Iwata, p. 97.
  4. ^ Draeger and Warner, p. 83
  5. ^ Draeger and Warner, p. 82.
  6. ^ Draeger and Warner, p. 82.
  7. ^ Draeger and Warner, p. 83.

References

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17th century (1601–1700)
18th century (1701–1800)
19th century (1801–1876)
Traditional arts practiced:
Battōjutsu • Bōjutsu • Hojōjutsu • Iaijutsu • Jōjutsu • Jujutsu • Juttejutsu • Kenjutsu • Kenpō • Kyūjutsu • Naginatajutsu • Ninjutsu • Shurikenjutsu • Sōjutsu