Tatenokai

楯の会
categoryOther
calendar_month1968-10-05 – 1971-02-28 · Defunct
location_onTokyo Japan

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。”
— 楯の会 - 日本語版ウィキペディア. Wikipedia (Japanese) link history info

Officers (2)

  • Yukio Mishima
    隊長 (Commandant)
    1968 – 1970
    Probable
    Probable
    Wikipedia only.
    The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
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    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
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    Wikipedia only.
    “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。”
    — 楯の会 - 日本語版ウィキペディア. Wikipedia (Japanese) link history info
  • Masakatsu Morita
    学生長 (Student President)
    1969 – 1970
    Probable
    Probable
    Wikipedia only.
    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
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    fact_check
    Wikipedia only.
    “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”
    — 楯の会 - 日本語版ウィキペディア. Wikipedia (Japanese) link history info

Locations (1)

  • location_onTokyo Japan
    warning No sources cited

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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“廃止年月日 1971年2月28日”
— 楯の会 - 日本語版ウィキペディア. Wikipedia (Japanese) link history info

Tags

tatenokai

Sources

楯の会 - 日本語版ウィキペディア. Wikipedia (Japanese) link history info

Identifiers

https://martial.is/entity/01M0SP452B7ZMKEX4FETRY6M9Q
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Tatenokai. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M0SP452B7ZMKEX4FETRY6M9Q - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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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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