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“Tenshinryu (天心流)” was born in
the Edo era Kan’ei (寛永).

Yahei Tokizawa (時沢弥兵衛) is the
founder of Tenshinryu.

Tenshinryu derived from the

corps of shadow to protect the
Tokugawa shogunate (徳川幕府)
which is called “Shilin Dan (士林
の団, the population of samurai)”.
They served Munenori Yagyu (柳生

宗矩). Munenori Yagyu has devised
a lot of “Kata (勢法, techniques)”.

Tenshinryu originated from
“Shinkage ryu (新陰流)”. Yahei in-
tegrated the techniques of
Shinkage ryu and techniques

created by Munenori into Ten-
shinryu. Tenshinryu
is handed down as
a sword of samurai

to serve to the cas-
tle which was called
“Joshi no Ken (城士の
剣)”.

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