North American San Shin Kai offers seminars and training in Muso Shinden-ryu Iaido. San Shin Kai is the federation organized in North America by Mitsuzuka Takeshi Sensei and presently headed by Roger Wehrhahn, Shihan. Other '61 4/13: Judo Seifukushi (Bone Setter) Jodo '77 3/15: 5 dan in Jodo from Shimizu Sensei (Shindo Muso-ryu) '75 5/8: Kendo Renshi Certificate (All Nippon Kendo Federation) '79 5/5: 8 dan in Iai (All Nippon Kendo Federation) '67 5/17: Iaido Kyoshi Certificate (All Nippon Kendo Federation)
'59 8/15: 5 dan in Iai from Danzaki Sensei and Omori Sensei (Dai Nippon Iaido Kenshukan) Iai '56 3/18: 3 dan in Iai from Nakayama Hakudo Sensei (Yushin-kai Iaido Renmei) Listed below are his many accomplishments in budo. Later, he founded the San Shin Kai and began teaching Iaido throughout the world. Mitsuzuka Sensei continued his training and modeled the Seiteigata in Gordon Warner and Donn Draeger's well-known book, Japanese Swordsmanship. Nakayama Sensei was 85 years old at the time and would only live for another three years. Mitsuzuka Sensei began his training in Iaido on March 1st, 1955 under the watchful eye of Nakayama Hakudo Sensei. Mitsuzuka Sensei married his wife, Hiroko, in 1953 in 1956 they had their only son, Munehiro. After the war, he joined the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, retiring in 1970 with the rank of sergeant. In May of 1943 he entered service in the Japanese navy, at seventeen years of age. Sensei was born on September 15, 1926, to mother Hisayo and father Mounya in Miyagi-ken, Furukawa Shi Sakura no me, the middle son of five. Mitsuzuka Takeshi Sensei lost his battle with cancer on Maat 10:29 AM. Sensei's Passing Mitsuzuka Takeshi Sensei, 1926-2008 Mitsuzuka Sensei and Sylvain Sensei performing kumitachi The sword is no longer a tool for cutting down your enemy, but a tool for cutting your ego as well. He stressed the importance of sword training, no longer as a just a practical art, but as a method of improving oneself. He reorganized the Muso Shinden-ryu kata using techniques from Omori Ryu and Eishin Ryu.
Nakayama Hakudo Sensei, a man who had dedicated his life to the study of kendo and iai, came to the conclusion that the classical arts should be reinterpreted and opened to the general public in order for them to survive in the changing world. Muso Shinden Ryu as we know it today was born in the early 1900's from this foundation of spiritual practice. There is a temple, Hayashizaki-Iai-Jinja, dedicated to him. It is believed that Hayashizaki himself stressed the spiritual side of training. Later, his students named the style Shin Muso Hayashizaki Ryu. This was the first systematized iai school, although similar fast-draw techniques were already used in some of the older schools of kenjutsu. According to a vision he received in a dream, he developed the batto-techniques, where one draws the sword and strikes with a single motion. At the age of 21 he went to a Shinto shrine and stayed there for 100 days. Muso Shinden-ryu traces its roots back to Hayashizaki Minamoto no Shigenobu (1546 - 1621).
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