Training Background
I trained in heihō kenjutsu related to Jikishinkage-ryū at the Hōbyōkan, from 2008 to 2016. I received permission from Dr. David Hall to continue my practice of Jikishinkage-ryū in the Pacific Northwest by working with a small number of people. My first exposure to koryū kenjutsu was training with Kato Kazuo in Yagyū Shinkage-ryū in Port Washington, NY in the mid 1990s. After moving to Baltimore in 2004, I practiced in a line of Tenshinshō-den Katori Shintō-ryū (opens in a new tab) at Capital Katori (opens in a new tab). I was introduced to the Hōbyōkan by Michael Heiler.
This site collects information on Jikishinkage-ryū and related arts; some of its content originated as part of a writing project called Inner Dharma (opens in a new tab). I am expanding this site as I gather more information from Japanese language sources, both historical and contemporary, as well as from conversations with lineal practitioners of these and related arts. I continue my own practice independently in Seattle.
