Description

The Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society, the largest martial arts organization in Japan before the Second World War, established in Kyoto on 1895-04-17; its first president was Imperial Prince Komatsunomiya Akihito. By the 1930s it had been turned from a public into a private organization and had lost its authority to govern all martial arts organizations in Japan. The GHQ dissolved it in 1946, and more than 1,300 of its leaders were purged in the following years.

Founded

• person
  Torinoumi Kōki
• person
  Konishi Shin'emon

Officers (3)

• person
  Prince Komatsu-no-Miya Akihito

  Superintendent

  1895

  Probable

  Probable

  One authored history.

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

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  1 source expand_more

  fact_check

  One authored history.

  reviewsPeer-reviewed

  “The successful appointment of Prince Komatsu-no-Miya Akihito on May 28, 1895, as superintendent of the organization gave it the powerful legitimacy of imperial benefaction.”

  — Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of the Swordlink info
• person
  Nishikubo Hiromichi

  Vice-president

  1919

  Bennett gives the year of appointment and has him still in post when the terminology changed from kenjutsu to kendō. He also became principal of the Bujutsu Vocational College in the same year, which is not recorded here because that college is modelled as a Place and a principal is not an instructor. Probable

  Probable

  One authored history.

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

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  1 source expand_more

  fact_check

  One authored history.

  reviewsPeer-reviewed

  “In 1919, he was assigned the position of Dai-Nippon Butokukai vice president and Bujutsu Vocational College principal.”

  — Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of the Swordlink info
• person
  Fujinuma Shōhei

  President

  – 1946

  Bennett calls him the incumbent president in 1946; the start of his term is not given. The end year is the Butokukai's own dissolution in 1946, not stated in the quotation itself. Probable

  Probable

  One authored history.

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

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  1 source expand_more

  fact_check

  One authored history.

  reviewsPeer-reviewed

  “The incumbent president of the Butokukai, Fujinuma Shohei (1883-1962), sent a report to SCAP's Civil Intelligence Section”

  — Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of the Swordlink info

Locations (1)

• location_onKyoto

  warning No sources cited

Dissolution

Places (2)

Affiliated organizations (5)

• corporate_fare
  Dai Nippon Butokukai Kendo Division

  Branch – 1946
• corporate_fare
  Dai-Nippon Butokukai Judo Kata Committee

  Branch1906
• corporate_fare
  Dai-Nippon Butokukai Seitei Kenjutsu Kata Committee

  Branch1906
• corporate_fare
  Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kenjutsu Kata Committee

  Branch1911 – 1912
• corporate_fare
  TenChi International

  Recognises

Ranks granted (5)

• 
  Abbe Kenshirō

  7 dan (1945)
• 
  Akamine Seiichi

  8 dan
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  Georges Stobbaerts

  8 dan (1995)
• 
  Miyake Tarō

  8 dan
• 
  Richard Kim

  9 dan (1969-12-01)

Honours granted (25)

• 
  Funakoshi Gichin

  Renshi (錬士) in karate-jutsu, Dai Nippon Butoku Kai (1939-07)
• 
  Georges Stobbaerts

  Hanshi (1995)
• person
  Isogai Hajime

  hanshi (1913-04-01)
• person
  Kagawa Senjirō

  Hanshi (範士), Dai-Nippon Butokukai
• person
  Kyoda Jūhatsu

  Kyoshi (1934)
• 
  Miyagi Chōjun

  Kyoshi (教士) in karate-jutsu, Dai Nippon Butoku Kai (1937-05-05)
• 
  Monna Tadashi

  Seirenshō (1899) · Hanshi (1913)
• 
  Naitō Takaharu

  Hanshi (1913) · Seirenshō (1897)
• person
  Nishikubo Hiromichi

  Hanshi (範士), Dai-Nippon Butokukai (1929)
• 
  Richard Kim

  Hanshi (1973-07-15)
• person
  Shimoe Hidetaro

  Seirenshō (1897)
• 
  Takano Sasaburō

  Seirenshō (1896)
• 
  Tanabe Mataemon

  Hanshi (1927) · Kyoshi (1906)
• 
  Toku Sanpō

  Kyoshi (教士) in judo, Dai Nippon Butoku Kai
• person
  Ueda Heitaro

  Kyoshi (1931-05) · Hanshi (1930-05) · Kyoshi (1919-06) · Seirensho (1911)
• 
  Ueshima Sannosuke

  Karate kyoshi (Dai Nippon Butokukai) (1939-07)
• person
  Watanabe Noboru

  Hanshi (範士), Dai-Nippon Butokukai
• person
  Ōtsuka Hironori

  Kyoshi-Go (1942) · Renshi-Go (1938)

Tags

martial-arts · organization · traditional

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