Hasegawa Eishin-ryū

Hasegawa Eishin-ryū (長谷川英信流)
Founder	Hasegawa Chikaranosuke Eishin (長谷川 主税助 英信)
Date founded	c.1716-1736
Period founded	Late Muromachi period
Current headmaster	None.
Art	Description
iaijutsu	Sword-drawing art
kenjutsu	Sword art
Shinmei Musō-ryū, Musō Jikiden-ryū (disputed).
Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū, Musō Shinden-ryū.

Hasegawa Eishin-ryū (長谷川英信流^?) is a iaijutsu koryū founded by Hasegawa Chikaranosuke Eishin (or Hidenobu)(長谷川主税助英信) as a continuation of the teachings he received in Shinmei Musō-ryū. After the death of the eleventh headmaster, Ōguro Motoemon Kiyokatsu, the school split into two branches or ha. One branch, the Shimomura-ha (下村派), was renamed by its fourteenth headmaster Hosokawa Yoshimasa to Musō Shinden Eishin-ryū (無雙神傳英信流). After studying under Hosokawa, Nakayama Hakudō created his own school which he called Musō Shinden-ryū (夢想神伝流) in 1932. The other branch, the Tanimura-ha (谷村派), was renamed Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū during the Taishō era (1912-1926), by its seventeenth headmaster, Ōe Masamichi, who incorporated the Shimomura-ha techniques and rationalized the curriculum.

Here is the lineage of Hasegawa Eishin-ryū and its two branches up until Nakayama Hakudō and Ōe Masamichi. It is interesting to note that Hayashi Masu no Jō Masanari, the twelfth headmaster as recognized by the Tanimura-ha was in fact a direct disciple of Matsuyoshi Teisuke Hisanari, the twelfth headmaster as recognized by the Shimomura-ha.

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