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, he went to Edo in 1844 (Kōka 1) and entered the Kanda Otamagaike dōjō of Iso Mataemon Masatomo (磯又右衛門正智), third-generation head of Tenjin Shin’yō-ryū (天神真楊流).
In 1853 (〔Ansei 5?〕) he succeeded to the name of Fukuda Seikōsai Kyōten (福田誠好斎響典), a gōshi of Hikita village, Tsuga district, Shimotsuke — founder of the Shinmei-tō-ryū (心明当流) kenjutsu — and took the name Fukuda Hachinosuke.
On the sixth day of the tenth month of 1862 (Bunkyū 2) he opened a Tenjin Shin’yō-ryū dōjō at Daiku-chō, Nihonbashi. Kanō Jigorō, founder of Kōdōkan jūdō, entered as his student in 1877 (Meiji 10). He died on the fourteenth day of the eighth month of 1879 (Meiji 12), aged fifty-two.
