Nakayama Tatsusaburō (中山辰三郎) was an important Shindō Yōshin-ryū figure and Ōtsuka Hironori’s teacher. He entered the Shintōkan on 10 April 1886. He learned Jiki Shinkage-ryū there and Shindō Yōshin-ryū, receiving a betsuden menkyo from Matsuoka Katsunosuke.
At age eighteen, his talent recognized, Nakayama entered — on Matsuoka Katsunosuke’s recommendation — the school of the Jiki Shinkage-ryū kenjutsu master Hakomori Yosaburō Sukesato, and five years later received a Jiki Shinkage-ryū menkyo kaiden and became Hakamori’s shihan-dai.
In the autumn of 1898, after Matsuoka died, Nakayama took up Ono-ha Ittō-ryū, receiving a kendo certificate from Takano Sasaburō in September 1906 and, on Takano’s recommendation, becoming kendo teacher at the old Shimotsuma Middle School.
It was much later, in May 1919 that he re-entered the Shintōkan under Inose Motokichi to study Shindō Yōshin-ryū jūjutsu, in order to qualify for a bonesetting licence. Sources are not consistent on what license he received.
