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Yagyū Muneyoshi Sekishusai 柳生宗厳(1527- May 25 1606) was one of the most famous swordsmen in Japanese history. He founded the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, and raised the Yagyū family up from being a minor noble family to the official instructors of swordsmanship of the Tokugawa shoguns. Muneyoshi fought in his first battle at the age of sixteen, against Tsutsui Junshō. The Yagyū were defeated, and Muneyoshi was forced to serve Tsutsui for a time, until Tsutsui was betrayed by his ally Miyoshi Chōkei; Muneyoshi then joined and fought under Miyoshi.

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  • Yagyū Muneyoshi Sekishusai 柳生宗厳(1527- May 25 1606) was one of the most famous swordsmen in Japanese history. He founded the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, and raised the Yagyū family up from being a minor noble family to the official instructors of swordsmanship of the Tokugawa shoguns. Muneyoshi fought in his first battle at the age of sixteen, against Tsutsui Junshō. The Yagyū were defeated, and Muneyoshi was forced to serve Tsutsui for a time, until Tsutsui was betrayed by his ally Miyoshi Chōkei; Muneyoshi then joined and fought under Miyoshi.
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  • Yagyū Muneyoshi Sekishusai 柳生宗厳(1527- May 25 1606) was one of the most famous swordsmen in Japanese history. He founded the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, and raised the Yagyū family up from being a minor noble family to the official instructors of swordsmanship of the Tokugawa shoguns. Muneyoshi fought in his first battle at the age of sixteen, against Tsutsui Junshō. The Yagyū were defeated, and Muneyoshi was forced to serve Tsutsui for a time, until Tsutsui was betrayed by his ally Miyoshi Chōkei; Muneyoshi then joined and fought under Miyoshi. In 1563, Muneyoshi met Kamiizumi Nobutsuna, a great swordsman and the founder of the Shinkage-ryū school. Through an invitation by the monk Inei, chief priest of the Hōzō-in temple, Muneyoshi had a swordsmanship contest with Kamiizumi's nephew Hikida Bungorō; this duel remains the earliest recorded use of a shinai, a bamboo sword now common in kendo (Japanese fencing). Muneyoshi was struck several times by the bamboo sword, and recognized the superior style of swordsmanship wielded by his opponent. He asked to become Kamiizumi's pupil and, after two years of hard training, was named the successor to the Shinkage-ryū school. Upon Kamiizumi's death, Muneyoshi inherited the school and appended his own family name to its own, creating the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū. He was then invited by the great warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu to his mansion in Kyoto in 1594, for a similar contest and display of swordsmanship. Muneyoshi brought his son, Munenori, and the pair gave an impressive performance. Ieyasu himself fought Muneyoshi, and was disarmed and defeated, his rival demonstrating the technique known as mutō, or "no sword". Following this impressive display, Tokugawa offered to make the Yagyū his family's official sword instructors. Muneyoshi declined, retiring soon afterwards, but gladly offerred his son Munenori to become Ieyasu's instructor. Muneyoshi died in 1606, by which time Tokugawa Ieyasu had become shogun, thus making Munenori the official shogunal instructor in swordsmanship.
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