Contents
Prolog
²
The end
of the feudalism and the Meiji restauration
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
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Ninjutsu hiketsu bun
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Chronological table of Takamatsu Toshitsugu
²
The art of shinobi only for
Japanese
²
Teached by oji safu
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Revenge and violent temper
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Fateful meeting with mountain ascetics
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The training to become a kōga-ninja
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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