Ryushin Shouchi Ryu
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| Date founded | 2006 |
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| Country of origin | Japan |
| Founder | Kawabata Terutaka 河端 照孝 |
| Current head | Yahagi Kunikazu 矢作 訓一 |
| Arts taught | Iaijutsu |
| Ancestor schools | Ryushin Jigen Ryu Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu |
Ryushin Shouchi Ryu (柳心照智流) is a school of kobudo (ancient martial arts) specializing in iaijutsu (quick-draw sword art) founded by Kawabata Terutaka in 2006. The origins of the Ryushin Shouchi Ryu can be traced to the Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu, a branch tradition of the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu. The current headmaster of the Ryushin Shouchi Ryu is Yahagi Kunikazu.
The Ryushin Shouchi Ryu is a branch tradition of the Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu, a system founded by Tose Yosazaemon Osamune (十瀬 与三左衛門 長宗, c. 1540- c. 1600) around the Eiroku Era (1558- 1570) specializing in iaijutsu and kenjutsu. Tose was a land-holding samurai from Hitachi province. While in his twenties he traveled to Katori Shrine to study the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu under the third headmaster, Iizasa Wakasa no Kami Morinobu. After five years of training he received a menkyo kaiden (license of mastery) and would go on to continue his studies at Kashima Shrine. While at Kashima, Tose became enlightened, and through an oracle, received a catalog of techniques from Takemikazuchi. It was after this divine inspiration that he created the Tenshinsho Jigen Ryu, taking the “Tenshinsho” (true and correct transmission from the deity of Katori Shrine- Futsunushi) from the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu, and adding the term “self-power revelation” (Jigen) which had come to him after his spiritual ordeal at Kashima Shrine. He would later travel to Satsuma where he would meet his eventual successor Kaneko Shinkuro Morisada (金子 新九郎 盛貞, c. 1520- c. 1585).
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