

The authors admit it in the afterword, too.īecause of its cool appearance and countless entries, there are martial art geeks who like to value it and quote from it in Japan, too. It is impossible to expect it to be correct about all entries and aspects. There are too many wrong entries on wrong recognitions and information even regarding our style so the same will be about other styles, too.Īs you see in the photo of this book, it's a very thick and big book which has countless entries. But actually the successor of the art is his son, Ueno-Fumiyasu-Genki, our proud 28th successor of Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu. Here the book says Master Ueno-Yasuyuki-Genshin(上野靖之源心)is the successor of Kananha-Shourinji-Kenpo (河南派少林寺拳法) in Japan, which is the name of a Chinese martial arts. There is another wrong entry in page 194, too. In addition, the authors of the book shows the name of Master Ueno-Yasuyuki-Genshin in wrong order, :S There are too many wrong and unique ( funny) recognitions on this entry to mention here but, the easy one is that it says Master Ueno-Yasuyuki-Genshin(上野靖之源心), the 27th successor of our style is the 20th successor. For example, the entry in page 343 shows another lineage chart about our style but it doesn't make sense, at all. There are more other confusing or problematic descriptions in this book, too, regarding the lineage chart of our style. They have their own idea and we have our own, that's it. I don't know why the authors of the book did that. Yes, is there any problem? It's sure that the authors omits the names of the several successors before Setoguchi-Bizennokami-Masamoto, the 15th successor of the school. So for the average fork to understand is beyond the realms of reason IMO.Ĭlick to expand.Do you mean this lineage chart of page 600 of the 1978 edition? Now with so many folks posting things to youtube, it has gotten a lot harder unless you have lived in the country, learned the language and gone to lessons to tell what is real and what is not. It was not until the dealt with the still rather unknown matter of the tea ceremony that he was able to tell that the Ogawa folks were making things up based on things they could get off of the internet and not personal instruction.Ģ0 years ago it was much easier to spot fakes. Not so long ago, Wayne Muromoto commented on the Ogawa ryu and stated that he at first thought all the mistake he saw were due to the fact that they were being done by gaijin and not Japanese. It later turned out that not only was Kazearashi ryu NOT a koryu, but a school created outside of Japan with all of the senior students in on the BS. Meik Skoss for years let the representative of Kazearashi ryu demonstrate with his dojo for the first of the year demonstration that he hosted. Click to expand.But lets put things into perspective.
