Report: November 2024 Research Trip to Saga Prefecture
In December 2024 a research team of the THRG (F.T. and G.K.) went on a mission to Saga Prefecture to photograph a set of 19 transmission documents kept at the Saga Prefectural Nagoya Castle Museum (肥前名古屋城特別史跡). The documents, probably dating to the end of the 18th or the beginning of the 19th century, proved to […]
New Issue! – The 2024 THRG Annual Bulletin
Dear friends of Hyōhō Taisha-ryū and the history of koryū! We are delighted, for a second year in a row, to be able to publish for you the Annual of the Bulletin Taisha-ryū Historical Research Group ! In this second issue we focus on one of the more famous (but lesser known) students of Taisha-ryū […]
New Manuscripts Acquired! – The Nabeshima Ōsumi Collection
In January 2024 an unexpected stroke of luck occurred – the THRG succeeded in acquiring for its collection a cash of documents which probably belonged to the 10th shihanke of the Taku Taisha-ryū line of Hizen province (modern-day Saga prefecture) – Nabeshima Ōsumi (鍋島大隅; 1764-1848) – a senior statesman of the Nabeshima domain. The most […]
Report: September 2023 Research Trip to Saga City
In September 2023 a member of our team visited Saga City in Saga Prefecture, Northern Kyushu. The first stop was Kukusō-ji Temple (國相寺) in Saga City. The temple is recorded in the Yamaryō Family Tree as the last resting place of Nakano Shūmei, the author of the Taisha-ryū Kaichū (タイ捨流解紐) and 5th shihanke of the […]