Ōnaga Kurō

Also known as

Daicho Kuro · Kuro Daicho · Daichō Kurō

Description

Master of Rikishin-ryu (力信流), a comprehensive martial art of jujutsu, kendo, iai and bojutsu. Came to Shizuoka from Okayama as the Shizuoka police headquarters jujutsu instructor (c. 1900), founded the Bushukan dojo in Shizuoka City in 1903, and served as a Shizuoka Prefecture police bujutsu professor (1908 and 1918). The dojo Minoru Mochizuki entered in 1918 to begin kendo.

Students (1)

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  Mochizuki Minoru

  sports_martial_artsKendo Probable

  Probable

  The Japanese Wikipedia article records Mochizuki entering the Bushukan dojo of Onaga Kuro (Rikishin-ryu) in 1918 to begin kendo; the Shizuoka Kendo Federation history confirms the master and dojo. The Dragon Magazine interview instead places his kendo start in 1924 at Komatsugawa with an unnamed teacher

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

  location_onBushukan badge (1918)

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  The Japanese Wikipedia article records Mochizuki entering the Bushukan dojo of Onaga Kuro (Rikishin-ryu) in 1918 to begin kendo; the Shizuoka Kendo Federation history confirms the master and dojo. The Dragon Magazine interview instead places his kendo start in 1924 at Komatsugawa with an unnamed teacher

  “1918年（大正7年）、大長九郎（力信流）の道場・武修館に入門し、剣道を習い始める。”

  — 望月稔 - Wikipedia (JA). Wikipedia (Japanese) link history info

  “大長九郎は、静岡市富士見横町に武修館道場を創設し、剣道を含め力信流居合の指導を行う。”

  — 静岡県剣道史（昭和以前） - 静岡県剣道連盟link history info

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