Hasegawa Eishin-ryū


Hasegawa Eishin-ryū is a iaijutsu koryū founded by Hasegawa Chikaranosuke Eishin 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, was renamed by its fourteenth headmaster Hosokawa Yoshimasa to Musō Shinden Eishin-ryū. After studying under Hosokawa, Nakayama Hakudō created his own school which he called Musō Shinden-ryū in 1932. The other branch, the Tanimura-ha, was renamed Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū during the Taishō era, by its seventeenth headmaster, Ōe Masamichi, who incorporated the Shimomura-ha techniques and rationalized the curriculum.

Lineage

Here is the lineage of Hasegawa Eishin-ryū and its two branches up until Nakayama Hakudō and Ōe Masamichi. Hayashi Masu no Jō Masanari, the twelfth headmaster as recognized by the Tanimura-ha, was a direct disciple of Matsuyoshi Teisuke Hisanari, the twelfth headmaster as recognized by the Shimomura-ha.

Jinsuke-Eishin mainlineDraeger and Warner, p. 82.


  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-haWatatani and Yamada, p. 690.


  1. Matsuyoshi Hachirō Hisamori
  2. Yamakawa Kyūzō Yukimasa
  3. Tsubouchi Seisuke Chōjun
  4. Shimomura Moichi Sadamasa
  5. Shimamura Uba-no-Jō Yasuhide
  6. Hosokawa Yoshiba Yoshimasa
  7. Nakayama Yūshin Hakudō

Tanimura-haDraeger and Warner, p. 83.


  1. Hayashi Masu no Jō Masanari
  2. Yōda Yorikatsu
  3. Hayashi Yadayū Masayori
  4. Tanimura Kame no Jō Yorikatsu
  5. Gotō Magobei Masasuke
  6. Ōe Masamichi