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School: Asayama Ichiden Ryū Hyōhō
Event: Meiji Jingu Kobudo Demonstration 2018
Date: 03/11/2018
Venue: Meiji Jingu, Nishisando Shibachi
Representative: Seki Nobuhide (22th generation)
-- PRESENTATION: ASAYAMA ICHIDEN RYŪ HYŌHŌ --
That school was founded by Asayama Ichidensai Shigeaki, who was apparently from Usui, in the ancient province of Jōshū (which corresponds roughly to nowadays’ Gunma Prefecture).
In the middle of the feudal era and the Bakufu (Shogunate), the school thrived under the direction of Morito Sandayū Tomotsune. His adopted son, Morito Sankyū Gūta, counted up to 7000 disciples in the whole country at its maximum.
Then there was a decline during the Meiji restoration, and the transmission was interrupted in many clans. However, the Keishi Ryū school, created for the Police Force during the Meiji Era