Description

The Dai Nippon Butokukai's standing kendo division, with its own president. Kimura Tokutarō led it from 1942 until Japan's 1945 surrender, and Nakayama Hakudō briefly headed it in early 1946, months before the Butokukai's dissolution.

Affiliations (1)

• corporate_fareBranch ofGreater Japan Martial Virtue Society Probable

  Probable

  Bennett describes it as a standing division of the Butokukai with its own president, distinct from the Butokukai's own overall leadership; the 1946 end is the Butokukai's own dissolution.

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

  – 1946

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  1 source expand_more

  fact_check

  Bennett describes it as a standing division of the Butokukai with its own president, distinct from the Butokukai's own overall leadership; the 1946 end is the Butokukai's own dissolution.

  reviewsPeer-reviewed

  “Kimura was the president of the Butokukai's Kendo Division when Japan lost the war.”

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

Officers (2)

• person
  Kimura Tokutarō

  President

  1942 – 1945

  1945 is inferred from Japan's surrender ("when Japan lost the war"), not stated as a year 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

  2 sources expand_more

  fact_check

  One authored history.

  reviewsPeer-reviewed

  “eventually appointed president of the Kendo Division of the Dai-Nippon Butokukai in 1942 and vice president of the Dai-Nippon Kendōkai, which was formed in 1943”

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

  reviewsPeer-reviewed

  “Kimura was the president of the Butokukai's Kendo Division when Japan lost the war.”

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

  Head

  1946

  Appointed in the Butokukai's final months, before the September 1946 decision to disband. The end year is the Butokukai's own dissolution, 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

  “Nakayama Hakudō was appointed as head of the kendo division in early 1946”

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

Locations (1)

• location_onKyoto

  warning No sources cited

Tags

kendo · butokukai

Sources