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Miyagawa Taichiro was born on Kaei first. He served the Kuroda clan as a retainer. He was an accomplished martial artist, having learned Itto-ryu kenjutsu and Jigo Tenshin Ryu jujutsu, which he taught at the Genyosha-linked dojo that would be the origin of the Meidokan. He participated in the Hagi Rebellion against the Meiji government.

Teachers (1)

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  Matashichiro Shobayashi

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  Probable

  Documented in academic paper as high disciple and menkyokaiden of Masashige Shobayashi with specific quotation from PDF

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

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  Frederico Muñoz

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  Documented in academic paper as high disciple and menkyokaiden of Masashige Shobayashi with specific quotation from PDF

  “宮川太一郎嘉永元年（1848）生庄林又七郎の高弟・免許皆伝代々黒田家の臣である。一刀流剣術，自剛天真流組討を極め，明治10年(1877) 11月玄洋社附属の向浜塾で自剛天真流を教授したのが，後の明道館道場の起源とされている。大正9年(1920)6月20日77才にて病没。長男．宮川彦之助も目録まで進み，自剛天真流の普及に務めた。”

  — Yamamoto, Yoshiyasu. (1985-03-30). The Kumiuchi of the Jigotenshin School (Sect)link history info

Ranks (1)

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  receipt_longMenkyo Kaiden Probable

  Probable

  Menkyokaiden stated in an academic paper (Tenri repository); single secondary source

  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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  Menkyokaiden stated in an academic paper (Tenri repository); single secondary source

  “宮川太一郎嘉永元年（1848）生庄林又七郎の高弟・免許皆伝代々黒田家の臣である。”

  — Yamamoto, Yoshiyasu. (1985-03-30). The Kumiuchi of the Jigotenshin School (Sect)link history info

Students (1)

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  Uchida Ryōhei

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  Probable

  Student of Miyakawa Taichirō in Jigō Tenshin Ryū jūjutsu at Fukuoka's Meidokan dōjō

  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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  Student of Miyakawa Taichirō in Jigō Tenshin Ryū jūjutsu at Fukuoka's Meidokan dōjō

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  “宮川太一郎嘉永元年（1848）生庄林又七郎の高弟・免許皆伝代々黒田家の臣である。一刀流剣術，自剛天真流組討を極め，明治10年(1877) 11月玄洋社附属の向浜塾で自剛天真流を教授したのが，後の明道館道場の起源とされている。”

  — Yamamoto, Yoshiyasu. (1985-03-30). The Kumiuchi of the Jigotenshin School (Sect)link history info

  “He learned a number of martial arts, most notably Jigō Tenshin Ryū Jūjutsu in Fukuoka’s Meidokan dōjō, an art in which he was notably successful. In 1893 he moved to Tokyo to live with his wealthy coal mine owner uncle Hiraoka Kōtarō, a supporter of the Genyōsha, and began to study Russian at a Tokyo school and jūdō at Kanō Jigorō’s Kodokan.”

  — Lance Gatling. (2023). Ki 気 in Jūdō 柔道 - Uchida Ryōhei and the Secrets of Budō 武道極意. The Kano Chronicleslink history info

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