RyuKyu Kobudo Innoue school
(Japanese from
Taira)
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Japanese
kobu-jutsu master, Motokatsu Inoue was the Grandmaster of Yui Shin Kai and
Ryukyu Kobujutsu. He was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1918. Inoue’s father was a
general in the Japanese army, and his mother was the grandaughter of Inoue
Kaoru, who was a former Prime Minister of Japan. His grandfather, Katsunosuke
Inoue, was British Ambassador from 1913-1917. Because of the nobel status of
his family Motokatsu Inoue was privileged to study martial arts at a young age.
He begin his study of jujutsu at the age of 10 under Fujita Seiko.
Seiko
Fujita was Motokatsu father’s body guard and was the 14th Head Master of the
Koga Ryu Wada Ha family of Ninjutsu and a man of mystery. Fujita felt that
Karate was far too linear and Aikido, too circular, for their practical use in
close contact fighting. Fujita style was a very aggressive form of Jujitsu and
Aiki with particular emphasis on attacking the eyes, throat and groin using
open hand techniques and low kicks.
Seiko
Fujita also taught the young Inoue weapons, as Fujita was skilled at using any
item as a weapon. Fujita prefered Ninjitsu weapons, especially the Shuriken
Jutsu or iron darts of the Shingetsu Ryu where they they used knives and short
arrows as well as the star shaped Shaken. The basis, however, was always from
the straight iron darts, around 8 inches in length.
By the age of 18, Motokatsu Inoue had obtained a good understanding of Jujitsu,
Shuriken Jutsu and had learned Jo Bo Jutsu (Jo-Jitsu of Diaen Ryu) using a jo
which is fifty inches long and one inch in diameter. Fujita instructed Inoue to
study Sumo while he attended Keio University, from which Inoue graduated in
1941. At this point in time Fujita realized that to be well rounded in the
martial arts it would be necessary to have Motokatsu study karate jutsu under
Sensei Yasuhiro Konishi, the founder of the Shindo Shizen Ryu. Sensei Yasuhiro
Konishi had studied with many of the great Okinawan Masters including Funakoshi,
Motobu, Mabuni and Ohtsuka, and his emphasis on kata and free fighting would
give Inoue Sensei an even more extensive knowledge of the arts.
Fujita
also sent Inoue to study Aiki with Gozo Shioda, one of Ueshiba’s top disciples
who formed his own school, Yoshin Aikido, which is more oriented toward combat
than Ueshiba’s Aikido. Shioda trained and graded Motokatsu Inoue up to 3rd dan.
Konishi
was a strict teacher and was the person who introduced Inoue to Shinken Taira,
who was probably the greatest weapons expert of his time. Taira trained under
Moden Yabiku and traveled often to Japan, carrying 20 bo and 10 sai, plus a
rucksack on his back – even at the age of 60. He developed the manji-no-sai and
founded the Society for Promotion and Preservation of Ryukyu Martial Arts. This
weapons society practices all 8 of the Okinawan classical weapons, and all the
combined katas of the Naha, Shuri, Aragaki and Tomari styles of which there is
107.
Sensei
Motokatsu Inoue’s diploma from Sensei Taira contained the words ‘The first
Hanshi Diploma awarded’, which made Inoue Shinken Taira’s direct student and
heir to the system. It was is Sensei Motokatsu Inoue that carried out the last
grading undertaken for Sensei Taira in the summer of 1970.
Due
to politics and a desire to retain control of the Ryukyu Kobudo Association in
Okinawa by an Okinawan, Akimine Sensei became the next president of the Society
for Promotion and Preservation of Ryukyu Martial Arts instead of Sensei
Motokatsu Inoue, who was the rightful heir at the time of Shinken Taira’s death
in 1970.
Sensei
Motokatsu Inoue passed away in 1993.
Quotes by Motokatsu Inoue
No
bias in Training Methods, if a technique is good, wherever it comes from, then
use it. ~ Motokatsu Inoue
For
every technique in Kobujutsu, there is a corresponding one in Karate. ~
Motokatsu Inoue
Kobujutsu
is important to Karate: Weapons, throws, arm locks, etc… should all be part of
our karate armoury. If you practise Karate without weapons, you have a weak
link in your training, likewise if you are unable to apply locks and perform
throws. ~ Motokatsu Inoue
People
think that if you study weapons you must always carry something to fight with:
This is not so. When you are proficient with weapons you not only know how to
use things around you to fight with, but you also learn distance appreciation
and not to be intimidated by an opponent with a weapon. ~ Motokatsu Inoue
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