Akaishi Gunjibei (郡司赤石兵衛), honorific -no-jō (尉), honsei Fujiwara (藤原),imina Fusuke (孚祐), gō Hanryūken” (斑龍軒), was the eleventh-generation head of Jikishinkage-ryū in the Kashima-shinden reckoning, standing between Fujikawa Chikayoshi (10th) and Danno Gennoshin (12th) in what became the Odani-ha. His placement is consistent across the 流派’s own dōtō register and the Kobudō Kyōkai succession lists (Kashima-shinden Jikishinkage-ryū Isseikai, n.d.)(Nihon Kobudō Kyōkai, n.d.).
He studied under Fujikawa Yashirōemon Chikayoshi (藤川弥司郎右衛門近義), the tenth-generation head, whose Edo town-dōjō at Shitaya Chōjamachi (下谷長者町), opened in Hōreki 6 (1756), was reputed to have three thousand students and to have produced Akaishi alongside Sakai Ryōsuke (Nakabayashi Shinji, n.d.).
His recorded students are Danno Gennoshin (団野源之進; the twelfth-generation head), Ishikawa Seheiji (石川瀬平二) (Nakabayashi Shinji, n.d.), and Toda Einosuke.
The Jikishinkage-ryū densho-shū (直心影流伝書集) lists Toda Einosuke (imina) Ōban Yoshishige, styled himself Isshinsai.〔大判良茂; imina reading uncertain〕, as one of Akaishi’s students:
At the age of twenty-four he came to Kyoto and opened a kōbujō, and his name became greatly renowned. Those who received instruction from him numbered several thousand in all, and those who attained the true transmission were likewise many. He died in Meiji 4 (1871), the kanoto-hitsuji year, in the twelfth month, aged sixty-six.
In Meiji, Ōishi Susumu (大石進), Okumura Sakonta (奥村左近太), Takayama Minesaburō (高山峰三郎), Koteda Yasusada (籠手田安定), Abe Morie (阿部守衛) later visited the school he founded in Kyoto.
Open Items
- Dates unresolved. No birth or death year in Kotobank, the Kobudō Kyōkai registries, the Issenkai dōtō list, or practitioner sources (null result). Check Karukome 2013 (Budōgaku Kenkyū 46-1) and the 2020 monograph.
- No office / fief located. Unlike the ninth-generation Naganuma line (Numata-han service), Akaishi sits in the Fujikawa Edo town-dōjō tradition; no domain appointment is attested. Treat as null pending primary records.
- Imina reading and kanji to confirm (see footnote).
References
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