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Names
| type | kanji | romaji | reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| myoji | Toda | ||
| tsusho | Hachirōzaemon |
Toda Hachirōzaemon (戸田八郎左衛門), personal name Tadamichi (戸田忠道), was born in Bunka 10 (1813), the second son of the hatamoto Toda Tadayasu (戸田忠養), lord of Takatsuka village in Atsumi district, Mikawa province. In Tenpō 15 (1844) he became the adopted heir of his elder brother and succeeded to the headship of the house. He trained in Tamiya-ryū (田宮流) under Kubota Sugane (窪田清音), whose Kubota-ha he represented.
Promoted within the Kōbusho, he rose to kenjutsu shihan-yaku in Man’en 1 (1860) and to Kōbusho bugyō (奉行; commissioner) in Bunkyū 1 (1861). A second Toda — Toda Tadaaki (戸田忠昭) — is recorded as a Kōbusho kenjutsu kyōju-kata from the same Kubota circle, so the Toda name appears twice in the institute’s kenjutsu staff.
His diary survives and has been the subject of Japanese-language scholarship (opens in a new tab) by Enomoto Shōji (榎本鐘司; Nanzan University): 「戸田八郎左衛門「日記」にみられる講武所武芸教授方、世話心得、修行人人名と流派について」 (On the names and schools of the Kōbusho instructors, sewa-kokoroe and trainees in Toda Hachirōzaemon’s ‘Diary’), Budōgaku Kenkyū (武道学研究) 14(2), 1981, pp. 11–12. Enomoto analyzed the diary of Toda Hachirōzaemon and produced rosters and counts of Kōbusho instructors and trainees.
