Ōtani Seiichirō Nobutomo

Also known as

Otani Seiichiro Nobutomo · Otani Nobutomo

Description

Jikishin Kage-ryū master of the late Tokugawa period and head of the Kōbusho, the shogunate's military academy. Taught Sakakibara Kenkichi, awarded him a teaching licence in 1856 and recommended him for a post at the Kōbusho. The Otani-ha branch of Jikishin Kage-ryū is named after him.

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  Sakakibara Kenkichi

  sports_martial_artsJikishinkage-ryū Probable

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  Bennett states the tutelage directly and dates its outcome, the 1856 teaching licence. The start is not given; Inoue's death in 1838 is the earliest it can be.

  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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  Bennett states the tutelage directly and dates its outcome, the 1856 teaching licence. The start is not given; Inoue's death in 1838 is the earliest it can be.

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  “Sakakibara then entered the tutelage of another Jikishin Kage-ryū master, Ōtani Seiichirō Nobutomo (1798-1864), who awarded him a teaching license in the tradition in 1856.”

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

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