Shimomura Shigeichi

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Tosa-domain shihan of the Muso Shinden Eishin-ryu (Shimomura-ha line) at the domain school Chidokan in the late Edo period; he taught the school until the Meiji Restoration and was also a shihan of Takagi-ryu jujutsu kenpo (JA wiki). He granted the school's menkyo kaiden to Hosokawa Yoshimasa in 1868, on the eve of the Boshin war.

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  Hosokawa Yoshimasa

  sports_martial_artsMuso Shinden Eishin-ryu Probable

  Probable

  JA wiki (Muso Shinden Eishin-ryu): Hosokawa, whose teacher was Shimomura Shigeichi, carried the school on to the Taisho period and received its menkyo kaiden from him in 1868. One source (the school's article), no independent corroboration found, hence probable.

  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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  JA wiki (Muso Shinden Eishin-ryu): Hosokawa, whose teacher was Shimomura Shigeichi, carried the school on to the Taisho period and received its menkyo kaiden from him in 1868. One source (the school's article), no independent corroboration found, hence probable.

  “細川義昌（島村右馬丞の実子）は居合の他、竹内流（呑敵流）小具足組打、無外流剣術、川心流槍術、甲州流軍学や砲術を修行し、戊辰戦争の高松征討出陣の慶応4年（1868年）に下村茂市より無雙神傳英信流の免許皆伝を授かった。”

  — Wikipedia contributors. 無雙神傳英信流 - Wikipedia (Japanese). Wikipedia (Japanese)link history info

  “その後、幕末に至り土佐藩の藩校・致道館において同流の師範であった下村茂市が明治維新までこれを教授したが、下村茂市も柔術をよくし、高木流体術拳法の師範も兼ねていた。”

  — Wikipedia contributors. 無雙神傳英信流 - Wikipedia (Japanese). Wikipedia (Japanese)link history info

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