Toda Shinryuken Masamitsu

Toda Shinryuken Masamitsu (戸田真竜軒正光^?) (1824 – 1909) is mentioned in the Bugei Ryuha Daijiten as being the head master of several styles of Japanese martial arts, including:

During the later part of the Tokugawa period, the government ordered the building of a national military academy (kobusho). According to Bujinkan sources, in 1855 Toda was appointed as chief budo instructor by Matsudaira Noriyasu. The Bujinkan founder, Masaaki Hatsumi, indicates that Toda Shinryuken Masamitsu taught his skills to Toshitsugu Takamatsu, who later passed them on to him.

Bujinkan sources indicate that Toda taught the following "five precepts for ninpo" :

He is also quoted by the Bujinkan as saying "Even when you are faced with certain death, die laughing."

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