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Mus\u014d Shinden Ry\u016b iaid\u014d is one of the most popular iaido styles both in Japan and worldwide. It is based on iaijutsu \u2013 a sword-drawing art \u2013 developed by a samurai called Hayashizaki Jinsuke Minamoto no Shigenobu, who lived at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries in eastern Japan.<\/p>\n
Numerous sword-drawing schools regard Hayashizaki as their founding father. His school was originally called Shinmei Mus\u014d Ry\u016b, and the art was called batt\u014djutsu at that time. After Hayzhizaki died, his students renamed the style Shin Mus\u014d Hayashizaki Ry\u016b.<\/p>\n
The 7th headmaster of the school, Hasegawa Chikara-no-suke Eishin, expanded the repertoire of the school by adding exercises where techniques start from tatehizasta, which is a half kneeling position. He is said to have reformed the school in other aspects as well. Even the name of the school was changed to Hasegawa Eishin Ry\u016b.<\/p>\n
Tosa (currently K\u014dchi) prefecture became the home of the style when Hayashi Rokudayu Morimasa (1661-1732) became the 9th headmaster. Eishin ry\u016b was adopted into the official training curriculum for the Tosa samurai and the style became known as Tosa Eishin Ry\u016b.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Mus\u014d Shinden Ry\u016b was shaped by the iai master Nakayama Hakud\u014d. He was one of the most influential persons in Japanese budo in the first half of the 20th century. His grade in kend\u014d, iaid\u014d and j\u014dd\u014d was hanshi, i.e. the highest teaching grade.<\/p>\n
Nakayama Hiromichi Hakud\u014d was born in 1872 in Kanazawa in the Ishikawa prefecture. In 1889 he came to Tokyo and started training Shind\u014d Munen Ry\u016b at Negishi Shingor\u014d\u2019s Y\u016bshinkan d\u014dj\u014d. Thus he was originally a Shind\u014d Munen Ry\u016b kenjutsu master, but he wanted to study even the famous Tosa iai in order to come to know the true essence of the Japanese sword.<\/p>\n
At first Tosa teachers did not want to teach their art to an outsider, but Hakud\u014d persisted and finally managed to become a pupil to several Tosa area iai masters. Few people wanted to learn iai in those days, and teaching was mostly given on an individual basis by small groups of initiates. Some of Hakud\u014d\u2019s kend\u014d students were interested in the art, and he disclosed its secrets even to them. Under Hakud\u014d\u2019s influence iai became gradually ever more popular and widespread.<\/p>\n
Hakud\u014d called the iai he taught by several names: Hayashizaki Mus\u014d Shinden Ry\u016b, Mus\u014d Shinden Ry\u016b batt\u014djutsu or simply \u014cmori Ry\u016b and Hasegawa Eishin Ry\u016b, depending on which series was taught. He also introduced the term iaid\u014d, to emphasize the spiritual aspects of iai practice.<\/p>\n
After Hakud\u014d died in 1958, his students started to call the art Mus\u014d Shinden Ry\u016b.<\/p>\n
Mus\u014d Shinden Ry\u016b in Finland<\/strong><\/p>\n Toshikazu Ichimura Sensei, who brought aikid\u014d to Finland in the beginning of the 1970\u2019s, was also a 6th dan and a renshi-graded teacher of iaid\u014d. The curriculum of his aikid\u014d seminars included also iaid\u014d as a supplementary subject. In the beginning, iaid\u014d was mostly studied by some students in aikid\u014d clubs, but in 1986 the first personal contacts were made with a real master of iaid\u014d, Takada Gakud\u014d Sensei. That year Takada Sensei instructed Nordic iaido students for the first time at an iaid\u014d seminar in Uppsala, Sweden. There were several Finns among the participants, and four of them received a dan grade in a grading test held at the seminar. These were Jukka Helminen, Arto Lauerma, Petteri Silenius and Pasi Hellst\u00e9n.<\/p>\n When Ichimura Sensei returned to Japan, a Swede, Martin Stelander, shouldered the responsibility for teaching iaid\u014d in Sweden and Finland. He had taken his first iaid\u014d steps under the guidance of Ichimura Sensei, and had studied iaid\u014d at Takada Sensei\u2019s d\u014dj\u014d on his training trip to the Japanese aikid\u014d hombu in 1985. Stelander came several times per year to Finland to teach at iaid\u014d seminars, and Takada Sensei came to Finland for the first time in 1988 to teach at a seminar in Helsinki. The grading test held at that seminar resulted in a few new dan grade holders: Leena M\u00e4kinen and Yuji Matsuoi among others.<\/p>\n After that, Takada Sensei came to Finland every other year – later every year – to teach at one week or two weeks long seminars. Often the Finnish seminars were combined with another seminar in Uppsala. Thus, our most enthusiastic iaid\u014d students had an opportunity to get an iron ration of iaid\u014d by participating in both. In 1986 Finnish Iaido Federation was established to oversee iaid\u014d activities in our country. Later affiliated style associations for Mus\u014d Shinden Ry\u016b and Mus\u014d Jikiden Eishin Ry\u016b were founded.<\/p>\n Now the Finnish Muso Shinden Ryu Association has 11 member clubs in various parts of Finland. The Association organizes annually two to four camps taught by our own instructors and one seminar taught by Takada Sensei. There are tests for kyu grades at the local seminars, and dan tests are held at Takada Sensei\u2019s seminars.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Pasi Hellsten Mus\u014d Shinden Ry\u016b iaid\u014d is one of the most popular iaido styles both in Japan and worldwide. It is based on iaijutsu \u2013 a sword-drawing art \u2013 developed by a samurai called Hayashizaki Jinsuke Minamoto no Shigenobu, who lived at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries in eastern Japan. Numerous sword-drawing schools regard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musoshindenryu.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musoshindenryu.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musoshindenryu.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musoshindenryu.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musoshindenryu.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/musoshindenryu.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/musoshindenryu.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/214"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musoshindenryu.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musoshindenryu.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTakada Sensei named three persons responsible for teaching Mus\u014d Shinden Ry\u016b in Finland: Jukka Helminen, Arto Lauerma and Pasi Hellst\u00e9n.<\/p>\n
\nSuomen Muso Shinden Ryu Yhdistys ry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"