Tsukahara Bokuden Takamoto · Lineage tree

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Swordsman of the Kashima Shrine tradition who named the Kashima Shinto-ryu; teacher of Saito Denkibo.

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  Saito Hangan Denkibo Katsuhide

  swordsKashima Shintō-ryū Probable

  Probable

  The Field Guide and the school's own page; the Field Guide draws on the school's programme notes, so one tradition.

  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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  The Field Guide and the school's own page; the Field Guide draws on the school's programme notes, so one tradition.

  “Tendo-ryu founder Denkibo was from Ibaragi, and studied Kashima Shinto-ryu under Tsukahara Bokuden.”

  — Skoss, Diane. (1997). Field Guide to the Classical Japanese Martial Arts. Koryu Bujutsu: Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan info

  “伝鬼は常陸国井手（茨城県）に生まれ、塚原卜傳の門に入り刀槍の術を学んだ。”

  — 天道流薙刀術link history info

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