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Joseph,

yes I'm pretty sure that it was Miura Kinnosuke. Some years later he was already mentioned as "Prof. Dr. K. Miura" by the respective organization. And Prof. Erwin Baelz was also a member...

I recently found a text about jujutsu in German language, published in 1899. It's the script of a lecture held by a Dr. Miura in 1898 before a German organization in Tokyo. There are several points...

To read that bad news makes me sad. I only knew Mark from this site, and several PM and E-mail exchanges. To me, he was a really enrichment to e-budo, and I'm very sure that wasn't the only thing...

Hi Anders,
I don't know for 100%, but I'm pretty sure that I have used the original e-budo color scheme when I started my small German-language "Budoforum" in 2001, and I haven't changed the colors...

It's obviously something that infect's certain versions of vBulletin boards, and there seems to be a way for the forum's host to get rid of it. Look here:...

Of course, the title of this thread is "The importance of luck in dueling", but the question was later "streamlined" into "How much influence does skill have on the outcome of a duel?" While skill...

Of course they have. It was the specific type of this Ashiate (Keri-) waza that caught my attention, as to me it has a more "modern", or "sports-like" feeling, or at least a feeling of an art, where...

Tony,

unfortunately I also have no details about that competitions as yet. But it must have been in 1901, not 1904, when Uenishi came to London.

Lance, thank you for the clarification. It makes much more sense now!

BTW, here is Handa Yataro:


http://budoforum.net/rr/handayataro.jpg

In the H&S interview with Uenishi from 1904, the...

But how could there be "some Kodokan students" in 1881, when Kano shihan established his first dojo at Eishoji only in the following year, 1882?

Steve, thanks for the info!

Good answer, Chris! :)

BTW, some people seem to think that doing iai-kata from seiza is a modern invention. Omori Ryu's "seiza-iai" was founded in the first half of the Tokugawa-/Edo-period,...

Dear Eric,

interestingly, in Showa 44 (1969) Kono-soke himself in his MJER movie presented 10 forms as Dai Nippon Batto Ryu, in the following order and without making any distinction between Kihon...

Double post, sorry!

Follow-up on "Tenshin-Ryu":

In S. R. Linck's book "Combat Jiu Jitsu for Offense and Defense" (1943), his well-known Diploma form Risher W. Thornberry is pictured. Thornberry wrote on it, on May...

That is absolutely correct. The differences between the cited sources in the timing of the hand-placement on the Tsukagashira appear only in Seiza no bu, not in Tatehiza no bu or in Oku iai iwaza no...

Yes, in his movie from Showa 44 (1969) MJER dainiju dai soke, Kono Hyakuren, performed the placement of the right hand on the tsukagashira after standing up, and sometimes he even did it during...

Hi Paul,

I think designations like shoden, chuden, okuden, hiden, kaiden etc. are used in several styles and arts. Regarding MJER, I'm sure that the terms mentioned above are not used generally,...

Excuse me, but if it concerns TSR, hasn't it to be Chuden? BTW, I've read the same assumption about Yukio Tani's possible TSR-rank somewhere.

Best regards,
Robert Reinberger

Joe, the relevant part dealing with Koizumi's history is online here.

Best regards,
Robert

Dear Rennis, thank you very much for the further informations and clarifications you provided. In fact, since I've posted the sentence you quoted, I asked myself if I may have been a little to...

Johan,

I didn't intend to sound smart-alecky. In fact, after having written the first part of my sentence, I suddenly realised that I had to add something and to address the real important...

Yes Johan, it's really sad, how much was destroyed in that war, aside from the loss of lives, health and happiness of people.

Recently, without getting results to the very detailed question and...

Thanks for the input so far.

Neil, if the K. Saito you mentioned really is identical with de Jong sensei's teacher, him being based in Nagasaki indeed would be a strong indication on Tenshin Ryu....

Please allow me to carry on with an aspect of a shift that occured earlier on this thread: the question, which was the original style of Tsutsumi Masao and Higashi Katsukuma.

Higashi always talked...