Register record
Identity & authority
- Attestation
- corroboration: —
Names
| type | kanji | romaji | reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| myoji | Fukuda | ||
| tsusho | Hachinosuke |
Dates
- Born
- (1828)
- Died
- (1879)
Fukuda Hachinosuke (福田八之助柳儀斎, 1828–1879) was the second son of Mochida Matsusaburō of Nogami-machi, Chichibu district, Saitama.
After studying Okuyama Nen-ryū (奥山念流) and Kiraku-ryū (気楽流) jūjutsu in Chichibu, he went to Edo in 1851 (Kaei 4; some accounts give Kaei 5), at twenty-four, and entered the Kanda Otamagaike dōjō of Tenjin Shin’yō-ryū (天神真楊流) as a pupil of Iso Masatomo (磯正智), later the school’s third head.
At about thirty he was proposed by Iso for an instructor’s post at the bakufu’s Kōbusho, which a commoner could not hold. Through Iso’s mediation he was adopted by Fukuda Hachirōemon (福田八郎右衛門; in the account used earlier for this record, Fukuda Seikōsai Kyōten 福田誠好斎響典), a gōshi of Hikita village, Tsuga district, Shimotsuke, said to have founded the Shinmei-tō-ryū (心明当流) kenjutsu, and took the name Fukuda Hachinosuke. He is said to have served as a Kōbusho jūjutsu instructor from Ansei 6 (1859) until the jūjutsu division was abolished in 1862, though his name does not appear in the surviving Kōbusho instructor rosters.
On the sixth day of the tenth month of 1862 (Bunkyū 2) he opened a Tenjin Shin’yō-ryū dōjō at Daiku-chō, Nihonbashi, and later another at Shiba Shinmei-chō. Kanō Jigorō, founder of Kōdōkan jūdō, entered as his student in 1877 (Meiji 10). He died of a stroke on the fourteenth day of the eighth month of 1879 (Meiji 12), aged fifty-one (fifty-two by traditional count); at his family’s request his dōjō passed to Kanō.
