Itō Ittōsai Kagehisa

伊東一刀斎景久
Japan

Description

Swordsman from Izu who founded the Ittō-ryū, naming it from the Taoist idea that all things arise from One and return to it.

Teachers (1)

  • Kanemaki Jisai
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    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
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    Bennett quotes Hinatsu's Honchō bugei shōden for the relation rather than asserting it himself.
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    “Itō Ittōsai Kagehisa hailed from Izu. He studied under Kanemaki Jisai and mastered the Chūjō tradition of sword and spear usage.”
    — Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of the Swordlink info

Sources

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“Ittōsai named his school the Ittō-ryū (One sword school), not as an allegory for using one sword, but from the Taoist philosophy that all things arise from "One" and then return to where they came from.”
— Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of the Swordlink info

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Itō Ittōsai Kagehisa. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M37JTCRF4TXBGPW8AP4W1904 - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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