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Umanosuké Kashio (Right), master swordsman and member of the famous Shinsengumi, a special police force in Kyoto during the Bakamatsu period, mid 1800’s.

Many members of the "Shinsengumi" and it's parent organization, the "Roshigumi", were renowned swordsmen. From the brutal methods of Hijikata Toshizo, to the prodigious Okita Soji, whom earned his Menkyo Kaiden (Certificate of Complete Transmission; total mastery of the system) at the age of 18.

It's a very interesting time in Japanese history.

11/15/2024

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11/09/2024

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A squad of Samurai, late 1800's.

10/13/2024

10/09/2024

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Uchida Ryōgorō Shigeyoshi (written as Ryōgorō Uchida in the west), (1837 - October 22, 1921), was a Japanese jojutsu practitioner, ranked menkyo in the Japanese martial art of Shintō Musō-ryū. He is the creator of Uchida Ryu Tanjojutsu, originally known as Sutteki jutsu or "stick method".

He started teaching Shinto Muso Ryu in Tokyo in the late 1800's some years ahead of Shimizu sensei.

Photo courtesy of Russ Ebert.

04/06/2024

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a notorious swordsman, explorer, author, adventurer, duelist, mystic, and anti-hero of the Victorian era. Burton was renowned for his fencing skill and earned the nickname "Ruffian Dick" because he had "fought in single combat more enemies than perhaps any other man of his time." During an expedition to Africa, he was impaled with a native spear, the point entering one cheek and exiting the other, was forced to make his escape with the weapon still stuck through his face. Burton seems to have relished in the resulting scar, which can be seen in this photo, and many others taken of Burton. Burton was not unique in this regard, as many swordsmen throughout history have worn such scars as a badge of honor. These include members of the dueling fraternities of Europe, as well as the so-called “Fraternity of the Blade” in the previous century…

03/07/2024

[Obituary]Tetsuzan Kuroda sensei
15th headmaster of Shinbukan, passed away.

Tetsuzan Kuroda sensei, the 15th Soke of Shinbukan and one of the foremost experts in koryu-bujutsu, passed away at 21:09 on Sunday, March 3, 2024. He was 73 years old.

His outstanding technique was praised as "divine speed," and he was highly regarded not only in Japan but also overseas, and he was invited to teach in the United States, Europe, and other countries around the world.

He has written a series of articles for the Monthly magazine [HIDEN] we published and BUDOJAPAN web site over the years, and has also appeared in numerous feature articles, DVDs, and videos on the BUDO JAPAN channel.

We would like to express our gratitude to Kuroda sensei for his kindness and support over the years and pray for his soul rest in peace.

We are planning a memorial program to look back once again at the trajectory of Master Tetsuzan Kuroda's life and the great achievements he left behind.

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09/16/2023

Mary Fields (c. 1832-1914), also known as “Stagecoach Mary”, was an American mail carrier,born into slavery in Hickman County, Tennessee. After the American Civil War ended in 1865, she was emancipated and found work as a chambermaid on board the Robert E. Lee, a Mississippi River steamboat. There, she encountered Judge Edmund Dunne and ultimately worked in his household as a servant. After Dunne's wife died, he sent Fields and his late wife's five children to live with his sister Mother Mary Amadeus in Toledo, Ohio where she was Mother Superior of an Ursuline convent. Life in a convent was placid, but Fields' hearty temperament and habitual profanity made the religious community uncomfortable. In 1894, after several complaints and an incident with a disgruntled male subordinate that involved gunplay, the bishop barred her from the convent.

By 1895, at sixty years old, Fields secured a job as a Star Route Carrier which used a stagecoach to deliver mail in the unforgiving weather and rocky terrain of Montana, with the help of nearby Ursuline nuns, who relied on Mary for help at their mission. This made her the first African-American woman to work for the U.S. Postal Service. True to her fearless demeanor, she carried multiple fi****ms, most notably a .38 Smith & Wesson under her apron to protect herself and the mail from wolves, thieves and bandits, driving the route with horses and a mule named Moses. She never missed a day, and her reliability earned her the nickname "Stagecoach Mary" due to her preferred mode of transportation. If the snow was too deep for her horses, Fields delivered the mail on snowshoes, carrying the sacks on her shoulders.

She was a respected public figure in Cascade, and the town closed its schools to celebrate her birthday each year. When Montana passed a law forbidding women to enter saloons, the mayor of Cascade granted her an exemption. In 1903, at age 71, Fields retired from star route mail carrier service. The townspeople's adoration for Fields was evident when her home was rebuilt by volunteers after it caught fire in 1912. She continued to babysit many Cascade children and owned and operated a laundry service from her home. Fields died in 1914 at Columbus Hospital in Great Falls. Her funeral was one of the largest the town had ever seen. She was buried outside of Cascade.

09/12/2023

“The others were making at me with drawn swords when Tom jumped in and took up the fight. Talk about sword play. I don’t believe there was ever another battle like it. Tom’s cuts, thrusts, and parries were so rapid that it looked as though he was using a dozen swords. Not a word was spoken, and I stood there like a jay watching the fight. I suppose I should have come to my senses had Tom been getting the worst of it but, as it was, I never moved until three Mexicans were stretched on the grass. The fellow that I had knocked down had disappeared.
That was a sword contest that was a contest. Though it wasn’t in the regular order for a stake, it would have cost us our lives had Tom lost. As it was we made a dead sneak out of the city that night, and got back to the City of Mexico as fast as we could. I would never have been here if we had remained to see the result of the fight.
Well, Tom cleaned out all the best swordsmen in the country, and when he returned to the States he brought a Spanish wife with him. I hear from him occasionally now. He taught fencing for a time in New York, and is now teaching young aspirants the use of his favorite weapon in a city not far from Chicago…”

- Supposed firsthand account of a combat involving Thomas Monstery, by a former friend in the Daily Alta of July 12, 1887.