Hasegawa Eishin-ryū

Hasegawa Eishin-ryū (長谷川英信流)
Koryū
Foundation
Founder	Hasegawa Chikaranosuke Eishin (長谷川 主税助 英信)
Date founded	c.1716-1736[1]
Period founded	Late Muromachi period
Current information
Current headmaster	None.
Arts taught
Art	Description
iaijutsu	Sword-drawing art
kenjutsu	Sword art
Ancestor schools
Shinmei Musō-ryū, Musō Jikiden-ryū (disputed[2]).
Descendant schools
Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū, Musō Shinden-ryū.

Hasegawa Eishin-ryū (長谷川英信流) is a iaijutsu koryū founded by Hasegawa Chikaranosuke Eishin (or Hidenobu)(長谷川主税助英信) as a continuation of the teachings he received in Shinmei Musō-ryū. After the death of the eleventh headmaster, Ōguro Motoemon Kiyokatsu, the school split into two branches or ha. One branch, the Shimomura-ha (下村派), was renamed by its fourteenth headmaster Hosokawa Yoshimasa to Musō Shinden Eishin-ryū (無雙神傳英信流).^[3] After studying under Hosokawa, Nakayama Hakudō created his own school which he called Musō Shinden-ryū (夢想神伝流) in 1932.^[4][5] The other branch, the Tanimura-ha (谷村派), was renamed Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū during the Taishō era (1912-1926),^[6] by its seventeenth headmaster, Ōe Masamichi, who incorporated the Shimomura-ha techniques and rationalized the curriculum.^[7]

Lineage

Here is the lineage of Hasegawa Eishin-ryū and its two branches up until Nakayama Hakudō and Ōe Masamichi. It is interesting to note that Hayashi Masu no Jō Masanari, the twelfth headmaster as recognized by the Tanimura-ha was in fact a direct disciple of Matsuyoshi Teisuke Hisanari, the twelfth headmaster as recognized by the Shimomura-ha.^[8]

Jinsuke-Eishin mainline^[9]

1. Hayashizaki Jinsuke Shigenobu
2. Tamiya Heibei Shigemasa
3. Nagano Muraku Nyūdō Kinrōsai
4. Momo Gumbei Mitsuhige
5. Arikawa Shōzaemon Munetsugu
6. Banno Dan'emon no Jō Nobusada
7. Hasegawa Chikaranosuke Eishin
8. Arai Seitetsu Kiyonobu
9. Hayashi Rokudayū Morimasa
10. Hayashi Yasudayū Seisho
11. Ōguro Motoemon Kiyokatsu

Shimomura-ha^[9]

12. Matsuyoshi Teisuke Hisanari
13. Yamakwa Kyūzō Yukikatsu
14. Shimomura Moichi Sadamasa
15. Hosokawa Yoshimasa
16. Nakayama Hakudō

Tanimura-ha^[10]

12. Hayashi Masu no Jō Masanari
13. Yōda Yorikatsu
14. Hayashi Yadayū Masayori
15. Tanimura Kame no Jō Yorikatsu
16. Gotō Magobei Masasuke
17. Ōe Masamichi

Notes

1. Draeger and Warner, p. 85
2. Draeger and Warner, p. 86.
3. "History of Muso Shinden Eishin-ryu Iai Heiho". Retrieved September 22, 2013.
4. Yamatsuta, p. 16.
5. Hall, David A., ed. (2012), Encyclopedia of Japanese Martial Arts, (Reviewing.) Irie Kōhei, Omiya Shirō and Koike Masaru., New York, USA: Kodansha USA, Inc., p. 169, ISBN 978-1-56836-410-0.
6. Hall, David A., ed. (2012), Encyclopedia of Japanese Martial Arts, (Reviewing.) Irie Kōhei, Omiya Shirō and Koike Masaru., New York, USA: Kodansha USA, Inc., p. 335, ISBN 978-1-56836-410-0.
7. Iwata, p. 97.
8. Draeger and Warner, p. 83
9. Draeger and Warner, p. 82.
10. Draeger and Warner, p. 83.

References

• Draeger, Donn F.; Gordon Warner (1982). Japanese Swordsmanship : Technique and Practice. New York: Weatherhill. ISBN 0-8348-0146-9.
• Iwata, Norikazu (2002). Koryū Iai no Hondō　Zenkai Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū (古流居合の本道―全解無双直伝英信流) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Ski Journal. ISBN 4-7899-2081-X.
• Yamatsuta, Shigeyoshi (2005). Iaido Hongi (居合道本義) (in Japanese and English). Tokyo: Airyudo (愛隆堂). ISBN 4-7502-0272-X.
• "Kan ou-kan: Muso Shinden Eishin-ryu Iai Heiho (貫汪館：無雙神傳英信流抜刀兵法)". Retrieved May 14, 2013.