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Now, talking with a guy at a birthday party the other day. He claimed to have studied Ninjutsu as a youth. Interested, I queried him further and from what he could recall the instructor, teaching out of his garage in Box Hill, claimed to have studied Tetsu Jen Ryu.
Now, a self proclaimed grandmaster of google-searchjutsu, I failed to find anything on this, but, at my local library, I did find an entry in a book called "The Ninja Star" by some guy named Katsumi Toda that lists a Tetsu Jin Ryu Ninjutsu to have existed around 1865. Now I can't find much on Katsumi Toda either...so...
Can anyone tell me:
a) who Katsumi Toda is and if he is a reputable source (and why katsumi sounds so much like hatsumi??)
b) Tetsu Jin Ryu was a real ryu?
c) If so what happened to it?
d) it is plausible for someone to have menkyo kaiden in this art?
e) why the hell it interested me so much when I normally don't care about this stuff? LOL
Cheers,
Nick
Now, a self proclaimed grandmaster of google-searchjutsu, I failed to find anything on this, but, at my local library, I did find an entry in a book called "The Ninja Star" by some guy named Katsumi Toda that lists a Tetsu Jin Ryu Ninjutsu to have existed around 1865. Now I can't find much on Katsumi Toda either...so...
Can anyone tell me:
a) who Katsumi Toda is and if he is a reputable source (and why katsumi sounds so much like hatsumi??)
b) Tetsu Jin Ryu was a real ryu?
c) If so what happened to it?
d) it is plausible for someone to have menkyo kaiden in this art?
e) why the hell it interested me so much when I normally don't care about this stuff? LOL
Cheers,
Nick