Contents      

 

 
Preface by shihan Bo F. Munthe

 

                Prolog

 

²      The end of the feudalism and the Meiji restauration

 

Takamatsu Toshitsugu, the last shinobi

 

²       Origin and home country of the Takamatsu clan

The historical importance of the region

 

²      The hour of birth of a great man

 

²       Reluctant Sumō fighter

²        First a martial arts education and then to the military

…but first the Shindenfudo-ryū

…grandfather Toda Shinryuken

                                … then the Koto-ryū

                                …and now even the Togakure-ryū

                                …and in between also the „Hichi buku goshinjutsu

 

²      In the headlines of the local press

 

²      Sumō fascinates the young Akebono

 

²      Do not hit little children!

 

²      The challenge of the Musashi-ryū jujutsu students

 

²      The meeting with a Sekiguchi-ryū bugai-sha

 

²      Unexpected visit in the factory

Ishitani Takeo Masatsugu

 

²      The unknown on the Shinbashi bridge

 

²      A great bereavement

 

²      Loneliness and asceticism

 

²      The emperor’s army

 

²      Wanderlust

 

²      Repeated asceticism in the mountains

 

²      A renewed thrust to China

The political, economical and military situation in Korea and China

 

²      Takamatsu’s adventures in China

Kokuryū-kai (Armur-society)

 

²      Return home

…things have changed

 

²      Purification in a monastery

                                Amatsu tatara hibun                                                                                         

 

²      The Kuki-Connection

 

²      A mundane life in Kashiwara

…ninjutsu for the naiton

 

²      Hatsumi Masaaki – the global player

 

²      The confusion of the II World War and the postwar era

Essay about Amatsu tatara

 

²      Moko no tora lives

 

²      The fateful meeting of two men

Like a miracle

The training

 

²      The eve of Takamatsu Toshitsugu’s life

 

²      The next door is pushed open

 

²      Sōke, the head of the ryū

 

²      Public relations

Shinobi no mono

The student trains his first own students

 

²      The first gaijin

Ninjamania

 

²      The death of an exceptional man

 

²       Ninjutsu hiketsu bun

 

²      Chronological table of Takamatsu Toshitsugu

 

Fujita Seiko, the last kÔga-ninja

 

²      The art of shinobi only for Japanese

 

²      Teached by oji safu

 

²      Revenge and violent temper

 

²      Fateful meeting with mountain ascetics

 

²      The training to become a kōga-ninja

 

²      Contact with the Nanban Sattō-ryū

 

²      A job as „bodyguard“

 

²      Instructor in the Japanese secret service

The Nagano school

 

²      Guerilla mission in Burma

 

²      The postwar era

 

²      Yakuza

 

²      Sudden death

 

²       Fujita Seiko’s legacy

 

²       Chronological table of Fujita Seiko

 

Epilog

 

Appendix

 

²       Index of names

²      List of the ryū

²      Notes

²      Glossary

²      Bibliography

²      Photo credits