I resume one of the oldest notes (that FB does not consider it useful so that it can only access old actions or scrolling up to the date of publication) and I try to update, dedicating it to its memory Kancho Machida Kenshinsai.
Even if for the most part, the name of Kodokan Perhaps it is synonymous with judo, for the Japanese, Kodokan is only a name of organization or dojo (written with various kanji). Before the main dojo of Jigoro Kano is called Kodokan there was another famous Dojo in Edo, with the same name but written in a different way Kōdōkan (Kodokan) What was the headquarters of the famous Samurai School of Mito Province – a real academy for the formation of samurai as complex and complete personality, according to the model Bunbu Ryodo («The double way of sword and pen» – A sign that unilateral training is not good, a balance must be maintained, compensating for military practice with humanist disciplines).
I actually heard the first time School in Mitoby 2016 when Machida Sensei He starred me with close eyes, entire passages on the ethics and the spirit of the samurai, quite difficult to understand, which explained to me that they came from the teachings Myth gaku (myth school) taught inside Kodokan Dojo Where his family had originated from myth (on the father’s line) he had formed. Hence my interest in the teachings of this true medieval university that created its code, a true «Bushido» of the Mito clan.
Founded at the beginning of Edo from Tokugawa Mitsukuni – The leader of the myth clan, the school was initially a current confused / Taoist / Shinto thought. Subsequent Myth gaku It transforms with the help of Tokugawa Nariaki, the 9lea Daimyo in Mito, in the largest institution of Young Samurai in Edo.
A strong historical study company works in parallel with Myth gakusupported by Tokugawa Mitsukuni With the declared purpose of studying and modifying the first great history of Japan (Dainihonsi -大日本史,). Parallel to history, Mito Gaku incorporated various disciplines, martial arts of course, mathematics, astronomy, Shinin AND Confuncianism, Taoism, Budism And even music. MONUMENTAL HISTORICAL WORK Dainihonhi It was finally completed in the 19th and 20th century even if the institution closed during the restoration of Meiji (1872). Some of its buildings have even become part of the Japanese cultural treasure (重要 文化財 文化財 Jūyō Bunkzai)!
This is interesting because even if Kancho MachidaHe did not attend the courses of this school and learned them extremely with his father, who, and now over 80 years, recites them, with passion … I also appreciate Machida Sensei once, for the open way he teaches today, despite the slogan propagation then since then since then Mitogaku – Sleep Jōi, «The emperor, outside with the barbarians.»
The only DAT, Machida Sensei He also told me that he crossed a difficult time to understand these times (after Meiji and in particular what followed after the Second World War). He told me that his father would not conceive the teaching of the martial arts of a Gaijin like me and that he also shared the same conception until recently. Now, however, he has understood that things change and that those who work and summarize honestly, deserve to know and know, regardless of the country where they were born and his eyes shine differently when he tells me … communicating a mix of melancholy but also joy and hope. He also tells me that he knows that after he goes beyond «he will have a lot to explain to his father … but that he assumes all this. And now that he has already met his father, I hope this step has been smooth and with the light
Soshihan Takeshi Machita Fudoshin It is he who continues this tradition now, also a special man doubled by an excellent martial arts expert who honors his father and I can say that I am lucky to be a student and contributes to a tradition that continues!
* “Bushido«In its current acceptance it is an invention of the beginning of the 20th century (» tradition invented » – a term introduced in history by Hobsbawn & Ranger) and extremist / nationalist of the Japanese translation period in search of a kind of national and cultural survival in the face of western culture in the face of western culture in the face of the true culture, the real culture of a true emoca of a true culture, from the real culture in the real culture, to the real culture, true emoca of culture.
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