Mugai-ryū

infobox koryu
nationality = Traditional Japanese martial art
school = Mugai-ryū
(無外流)


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founder = Tsuji Gettan Sukemochi
(辻月丹資茂)
founder dates = 1648 – 1728
period founded = Mid-Edo period (1603–1868)
date founded = c.1695
headmaster = Sega Yoshiyuki, Konishi Shin, Tamenori Akitada, Fujimura Michio, Nakatani Masaya, Furuhata Kimiyuki, Kai Kuniyuki and Niina Gyokudo all received Menkyo Kaiden from ShiokawaGyokudo Niina, became one of the 16th "sōke" in 2004
headmaster dates = born 1948
art1 = "Kenjutsu" - "ōdachi", "kodachi"
description1 = Sword art; with long sword, short sword.
art2 = "Iaijutsu"
description2 = Sword art; cutting off of the draw.
art3 = "Jojutsu"
description3 = Short Staff art.
art4 = "Tanjojutsu"
description4 = Walking Cane art.
art5 = "Kusarigamajutsu"
description5 = Kusari-gama art; sickle and chain.
art6 = "Juttejutsu"
description6 = Jutte art.
art7 = "Tankenjutsu"
description7 = Bayonet art.
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ancestors = Yamaguchi-ryū • Jikyo-ryū Mugai-ryū curriculum. Shinkage-ryū • Awaga-ryū • Kashima Shinto-ryū Yamaguchi-ryū influences.
descendants = None

nihongo|Mugai-ryū|無外流 is a Japanese "koryū" martial art school founded by nihongo|Tsuji Gettan Sukemochi|辻月丹資茂 (sometimes written as "Sukeshige") in 1695.

The ryū retains both "iaijutsu" and "kenjutsu" in its curriculum, and has a strong connection with Zen due to Gettan's belief that the "sword and Zen are the way of the same Truth". [ [http://suimokai.pupu.jp/english/founder.html Suimokai site] ] The name "Mugai" comes from the following poem:

quote|一方実無外
乾坤得一貞
吸毛方納密
動着則光精

quote|Ippou jitsu "mugai"
Kenkon toku ittei
Suimo hou nomitsu
Douchaku soku kousei

quote|There is nothing other than the One True Way
Heaven and Earth profit from this single Virtue
The fluttering feather knows this secret
To be settled during confusion is to be enlightened and pure

History

Tsuji Gettan was born in the first year of the Keian (1648) in the town of Masugimura, Omi (Shiga Prefecture) as the second son of a local samurai. Known as Sukeshige (sometimes Sukemochi), upon his "gempukku" he chose the name Gettan.

Leaving home at the age of thirteen in the third year of Manji (1660), Gettan traveled to Kyoto where he prepared to train at the dojo of the Yamaguchi-ryū style of swordsmanship. Learning under Bokushinsai Yamaguchi, who had studied Kashima Shinto-ryū and afterwards Shinkage-ryū and Awaga-ryū, Tsuji Gettan received "kaiden" (full transmission) at the age of twenty-six, in the second year of Enpo (1674).

Notes

See also

* Mugairyu Iaido Association India

External links

* [http://www.iai.gr.jp/] Meishi-ha Suimo-kai Japanese homepage

* [http://suimokai.pupu.jp/english/index.html] Suimo-kai English homepage

* [http://www.shizan.jp/] Gyokufu-kai homepage

* [http://www.virginiakempo.com/Mugai%20Ryu%20Curriculum.pdf/] Mugai Ryu Curriculum