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Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society

大日本武徳会
categoryGoverning body
calendar_month1895-04-17 – 1946-11-09 · Suppressed
location_onKyoto Japan

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

1895-04-17
fact_check3 sources expand_more
reviewsPeer-reviewed
“The Butokukai was the brainchild of Torinoumi Koki (1849-1914), a Kyoto tax collector with a proclivity for the martial arts.”
— Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of the Swordlink info
reviewsPeer-reviewed
“The men met for the first time on April 3, 1895, and a general assembly was convened shortly thereafter, on April 17”
— Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of the Swordlink info
“originally established in 1895 in Kyoto”
— Wikipedia contributors. Dai Nippon Butoku Kai - Wikipedia (English). Wikipedia (English)link history info

Officers (3)

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Japan
    warning No sources cited

Dissolution

Suppressed1946-11-09
Dissolved by order of the Allied occupation in 1946; its property was confiscated and more than 1,300 of its leaders were purged in the years that followed.
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“In 1946, due to its association with the Japanese Military during wartime, the GHQ dissolved the DNBK.”
— Wikipedia contributors. Dai Nippon Butoku Kai - Wikipedia (English). Wikipedia (English)link history info

Places (2)

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Budo Senmon Gakko
Academy · 大雲院（京都市東山区）
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Butokuden
Dojo · Kyoto

Affiliated organizations (5)

Ranks granted (5)

Honours granted (25)

Tags

martial-arts · organization · traditional

Sources

“originally established in 1895 in Kyoto”
— Wikipedia contributors. Dai Nippon Butoku Kai - Wikipedia (English). Wikipedia (English)link history info
“In 1946, due to its association with the Japanese Military during wartime, the GHQ dissolved the DNBK.”
— Wikipedia contributors. Dai Nippon Butoku Kai - Wikipedia (English). Wikipedia (English)link history info

Identifiers

https://martial.is/entity/01KJJAWN29MA64W22606R3WD7Y
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Cite and reuse

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Plain text
Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01KJJAWN29MA64W22606R3WD7Y - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
BibTeX
@incollection{martialis_01KJJAWN29MA64W22606R3WD7Y, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01KJJAWN29MA64W22606R3WD7Y}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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