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Student of Chiba Shūsaku from 1844 and author of Chiba Shūsaku jikiden kenjutsu meijin-hō (1884), which sets out the sixty-eight Hokushin Ittō-ryū fencing techniques that underpin modern kendo.

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  Chiba Shusaku

  sports_martial_artsHokushin Ittō-ryū Probable

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  Bennett dates his entry into Chiba's tutelage to 1844 while arguing about when the sixty-eight techniques were systemised.

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

  (1844)

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  Bennett dates his entry into Chiba's tutelage to 1844 while arguing about when the sixty-eight techniques were systemised.

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  “it must have been before Kōsaka entered his tutelage in 1844”

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

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