Currently Araki ryū Gunyō Kogusoku Shinken-kai is located in Yokohama, Japan and is taught by Hidaritomo Shuzo shihan.
Matsuo Kempu, the remarkable 8th generation shihan died in 1986 without designating a successor. His teaching was carried on by his closest associate, Yaguchi Tamotsu, but he, too, died in 2003, leaving authority in the ryu spread among a number of senior practitioners.
Disclaimer:
This article is part of a growing index of classical martial art schools. The purpose of these articles is to provide background information for the budō-students of Kochōkai. Because of the introducing character of these articles, they will only touch the surface of each school.
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More information in different Araki ryū lines can be found on Ellis Amdur’s Araki ryū page.
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