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Hikosuke Totsuka

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188: 237:. He worked as the main hand-to-hand teacher of the Chiba Police Department, but also taught several great exponents of his art, like Matashiro Kashiwazaki, Jujiro Aizawa, Taro Terushima and Teisuke Nishimura. 258:, but Totsuka himself would not see its end, dying of an illness in 1886 in midst of the confrontations. He was succeeded by his adopted son Hidemi, who later joined Kodokan founder 210:
than Totsuka. His training regimes were similarly brutal, with trainees being routinely injured and even dying in the Kobusho. One of his favorite techniques was a move similar to
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school. Under his leadership, the Totsuka-ha Yoshin-ryū was the largest jujutsu organization in Japan, as well as the last great school of this art, until the rise of
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from 1830 until 1837, in which he inherited leadership of the Totsuka family. In 1860, his prestige in the teaching of jujutsu carried to him to an audience with
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In 1861, Totsuka departed from the Kobusho due to political changes and decided to settle by himself, opening the first of a system of Totsuka-ha
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master Katsunosuke Masuoka, and defeated him twice despite being 23 years older and the same weight. Again, Masuoka become his disciple.
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At 178cm and 86kg, Totsuka was large and imposing for a Japanese man at the time, as well as highly skilled. In 1854, he defeated
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He was the elder son of Hidetsuka Totsuka, the founder of the Totsuka branch of
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in his presence. Iemochi was impressed, so Totsuka started working for the
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jujutsu. While he was learning the family art, Hikosuke served the feudal
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In the mid-1880s, his Tokyo students became entangled with the rising
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In 1885, Totsuka sparred against another renowned fighter,
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Index

Edo
Chiba
Yoshin-ryū
jujutsu
Yoshin-ryū
Kodokan judo
Yoshin-ryū
Numazu Domain
Suruga Province
Shogun
Tokugawa Iemochi
kata
Tokugawa Shogunate
Kobusho
Tokyo
Shinsengumi
Shinohara Yasunoshin

Shibukawa-ryu
Tetsutaro Hisatomi
tachi-waza
osoto gari
dojos
Edo
Chiba
Meiji Restoration
Tenjin Shin'yō-ryū
Kodokan
judo
Kodokan-Totsuka rivalry

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