Masakatsu Naka · Lineage tree

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  Ueshiba Morihei

  sports_martial_artsYagyū Shingan-ryū Probable

  Probable

  Yagyū Shingan-ryū training from 1903-1908 under Masakatsu Nakai in Sakai, documented by Kisshomaru Ueshiba's biography as cited in Chierchini's specialist article; the Yagyū Shingan-ryū Wikipedia article names both Ueshiba and Nakai but gives no year or duration for this relationship

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  Yagyū Shingan-ryū training from 1903-1908 under Masakatsu Nakai in Sakai, documented by Kisshomaru Ueshiba's biography as cited in Chierchini's specialist article; the Yagyū Shingan-ryū Wikipedia article names both Ueshiba and Nakai but gives no year or duration for this relationship

  “The first teacher that the Master learnt under in his teens was Tokusaburo Tozawa, of Kito Jujutsu sect. The next was Masakatsu Nakai of the Yagyu sect of encing, who lived in Sakai at that time”

  — Simone Chierchini. (2020-07-17). Ueshiba's Martial Arts Career Before Aikido Was Bornlink history info

  visibilityFirst-hand

  “O-Sensei: At about the age of 14 or 15. First I learned Tenshinyo-ryu Jiujitsu from Tokusaburo Tozawa Sensei, then Kito-ryu, Yagyu-ryu, Aioi-ryu, Shinkage-ryu, all of them jujutsu forms.”

  — Josh Gold. (2016). Interview with Morihei Ueshiba and Kisshomaru Ueshiba. Aikido Journallink history info

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