Totsuka Hikosuke

Also known as

戸塚英俊 · Totsuka Hidetoshi

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Edo-period jujutsu master of the Yōshin-ryū (Totsuka-ha), jujutsu instructor at the shogunate's Kōbusho from 1860; his school, later in Chiba, was regarded before the Meiji restoration as among the strongest in Japan. Father and predecessor of Totsuka Hideyoshi.

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  Totsuka Hideyoshi

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  Kanō's memoirs and Japanese Wikipedia make him Hikosuke's successor and eldest son; succession as head of the school implies the teaching, which neither states outright.

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

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  Frederico Muñoz

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  Kanō's memoirs and Japanese Wikipedia make him Hikosuke's successor and eldest son; succession as head of the school implies the teaching, which neither states outright.

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  “Before the 1868 Meiji restoration, Hikosuke Totsuka’s students were widely regarded as among the nation’s most skilful jujutsu men. After the restoration, his successor, Hideyoshi Totsuka, trained many more students”

  — Brian N. Watson. (2008). Judo Memoirs of Jigoro Kanoinfo

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  “戸塚英美（とつか ひでよし、天保11年（1840年）7月 - 明治41年（1908年）10月）は、揚心流（戸塚派揚心流）の九代目である。 戸塚英俊の長子。”

  — 戸塚英美. Wikipedia (Japanese)link history info

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