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Takada Gakudô Sensei
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| Takada Gakudo (Shigeru) Sensei, who lives in Yokohama, Japan, is our Muso Shinden Ryu teacher. He started his training with kendo in 1951 (Showa 27) and began his iaido career two years later, when he was 15 years old. |
| Takada Sensei's iaido teacher was the late Matsuo Kenpu Sensei (iaido 10th dan), whose dojo, the "Dai Nippon Teigoku Shinkenkan Matsuo Dojo", Takada Sensei joined on the 6th of December 1953. After he got his menkyo kaiden in Muso Shinden Ryu, his teacher made him study various budo / bujutsu arts and also other iai schools. |
| Takada Sensei was one of the youngest, who got an 8th dan from Zen Nippon Iaido Renmei. For various reasons he later joined another association, the Dai Nippon Iaido Renmei, and in September 2001 he was one of those who founded Nippon Iaido Kyokai. Takada Sensei is now hanshi, 9th dan. In summer 1999 he celebrated his 60th birthday. He trains early in the morning every day at home and teaches iaido twice a week in the Yokohama area. |
| Sensei visited Scandinavia for the first time in 1986, when there was an iaido seminar in Uppsala, Sweden. Two years later he came to Helsinki, Finland to teach here. After that Sensei has visited both countries every other year and lately once or twice a year, and each time the Scandinavian Muso Shinden ryu students have had an opportunity to study iaido under his guidance for one, two or even three weeks. |
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Sensei's budo career is a distinguished one. Here are some of the arts we know he has
studied (and his grade in each): Musô Shinden ryû iaidô (menkyo kaiden) Ôno-ha Hôki ryû iaijutsu (menkyo kaiden) Mugai ryû iaidô (menkyo kaiden) Hôzôin ryû sôjutsu (8th dan, kyôshi) Araki ryû nagamakijutsu (7th dan, kyôshi) Kendô (7th dan, kyôshi) Shindô Musô ryû jôjutsu (7th dan, kyôshi) Jûkendô (6th dan, kyôshi) Yagyû ryû kusarigamajutsu (6th dan, kyôshi) Yagyû ryû tessenjutsu (6th dan, kyôshi) Tankendô (5th dan) Araki ryû chikirikijutsu Jûjutsu of Kito and Yôshin ryû Iaidô of Araki, Eishin and Keishi ryû Kuroda ryû Shurikenjutsu Kuroda ryû ninjutsu |