Description
Private militia of about a hundred right-wing students founded by Yukio
Mishima on 5 October 1968 (developing out of his earlier "National
Guard" scheme), funded entirely from his writing royalties. Although
political in purpose, its daily life was heavily martial. Members qualified
through one-month GSDF experience-enlistments - chiefly at Camp Takigahara, Fuji
School, including jukendo shodan testing - attended weekly karate sessions for
some ten core members under Nakayama Masatoshi at the Japan Karate Association
from autumn 1968, and from May 1969 an eight-man elite guard
("kesshitai", each given a nihonto) learned iai at the Itabashi police
station dojo and the Imperial Palace Police's Saineikan. Guerrilla-warfare
lectures, street exercises and infiltration drills were led by Colonel Yamamoto
Kiyokatsu of the GSDF Intelligence School. Offices were first in Ginza (Kojaji
Building), then Shinjuku. The society effectively ended with Mishima's
seppuku at Camp Ichigaya on 25 November 1970 and was formally disbanded on 28
February 1971.
Also known as
Shield Society
Founded
1968-10-05
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“隊長・三島と初代学生長・持丸博、会員約50名が制服姿で整列し、「楯の会」の正式結成式が密かに行われた。”
Officers (2)
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Yukio Mishima
隊長 (Commandant)
1968 – 1970
Probable
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“隊長・三島と初代学生長・持丸博、会員約50名が制服姿で整列し、「楯の会」の正式結成式が密かに行われた。”
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Masakatsu Morita
学生長 (Student President)
1969 – 1970
Probable
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“持丸の代わりに森田必勝が楯の会の学生長に任命された”
Locations (1)
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location_onTokyo
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Dissolution
Defunct1971-02-28
Formally disbanded after the Ichigaya incident of 25 November 1970, in which
Mishima and student president Morita Masakatsu died and the surviving members
were arrested and tried.
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Identifiers
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Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M0SP452B7ZMKEX4FETRY6M9Q - CC
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@incollection{martialis_01M0SP452B7ZMKEX4FETRY6M9Q, author = {Muñoz, Frederico},
title = {Tatenokai}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database},
year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url =
{https://martial.is/entity/01M0SP452B7ZMKEX4FETRY6M9Q}, urldate =
{ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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