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2 Hansha 2016, Copyright Suomen Muso Shinden Ryu Yhdistys ry Hanshassa julkaistavan materiaalin tekijänoikeus on sen tuottaneilla tahoilla ja se on julkaistu heidän luvallaan. Uudelleenjulkaisu tai muu käyttö edellyttää oikeudenomistajien lupaa siten kuin Tekijänoikeuslaissa säädetään. Tämän numeron valokuvat Pasi Hellsten, ellei muuta ole ilmoitettu. 1

3 Suuri iaidovuosi jää taakse Hyvät Miekan Tien kanssavaeltajat. Taakse on jäämässä historiallinen iaidovuosi. Yhteistyö Siperian yli, Jokohamasta Itämeren alueelle, on ollut poikkeuksellisen vilkasta. Olemme saaneet nauttia Opettajien vierailusta tänne Pohjolan raukoille rajoille kahteen eri otteeseen, ja osallistuneet Japanissa kahteen näytökseen. Nippon Iaido Kyokai täytti viisitoista vuotta, ja sen toimintaan kohdistuu paljon odotuksia. Meistä pisimmälle edistyneet ovat oppineet uusia asioita ja tekniikoita, mikä on entisestään laajentanut ainakin omaa näkökulmaani miekan tiestä ja sen varrelta löytyvistä ilmiöistä. Tilanne on kuin Fuji-vuorelle kiivetessä: rinne jyrkkenee, ja jokainen askel eteenpäin on edellistä vaikeampi. Samalla näkyvä maisema kuitenkin laajenee, ja mene tiedä mitä kaikkea vielä on tulossa esiin huipun lähestyessä. Tämä EI merkitse sitä, että kukaan meistä olisi vielä lähelläkään huippua, se lienee jossain tuolla edessäpäin häämöttävien pilvien takana. Yamagatan läänin Murayaman kaupungissa, Hayashizaki Iai Jinjan dojolla Kyokain 15 toimintavuoden kunniaksi pidetty näytös kuitenkin antoi aavistuksen vielä edessämme olevan tien pituudesta. matka, pääty koskaan. Aina on varaa parantaa, vaikka dan-diplomeja olisi komerossa kilokaupalla. Joten harjoitelkaa, harjoitelkaa ja harjoitelkaa. Katsokaa pidemmälle edenneiltä mallia, ja seuratkaa saamaanne opetusta hellittämättä. Meidän pidemmälle edenneiden on puolestamme vastattava siitä, että emme näytä huonoa esimerkkiä. Läntisessä perinteessä sanotaan, että aateluus velvoittaa mm. moitteettomaan käytökseen. Budossa jokainen dan, porras, jonka olemme tiellä edenneet, velvoittaa harjoittelemaan entistä ahkerammin ja hiomaan suoritukset entistäkin sujuvammiksi, ja siten toimimaan esimerkkeinä niille, jotka kulkevat tietä takanamme. Teemme tätä matkaa yhdessä, jokainen voimiensa mukaan. Alkava vuosi tuo Opettajat jälleen Suomeen. Sitä odotellessa on velvollisuutemme muistaa ja kehittää aiemmin oppimamme. Opettajan aikaa ei kannata tuhlata kertaamaan asioita, joita meidän pitäisi jo aiemmin opitun perusteella tietää. Vesa Varhee Matkan pituuden ei kuitenkaan saa antaa pelottaa: jokainen matka, jääkaapille mainostauon aikana tai Aasian vastakkaiselle laidalle lentäen tehdään aina askel kerrallaan. Perille, tai edes eteenpäin ei pääse, jollei ota askelia. Budossa, etenkin niissä koruy-budolajeissa joita Takada-sensei meille opettaa, ei kehitys, siis 2

4 Hansha goes kansainvälinen, tässä kanssamatkustajamme Matteon vaikutelmia Miekan Tiestä Japanissa koettuna. And you non-fennophobes, share and enjoy! Matteo's Japan Diary 2015 Dear diary, Today I arrived in Japan. This place is different, no surprise in that. It was amazing to sleep and relax during the flight as well as to find Jonas on the same flight with me. Waking up though was stressing and hard since you suddenly find yourself in a different place and you feel out from your own world. You actually feel like you don't know anything, I mean nothing. People look different, they smell different, they are different, and the only thing I craved for was a smoke and shower. Now, after many hours after landing, I m on a rooftop washed, fed and happy. A lot has gone through my mind of this time and experience. I'm still by myself of course but that is not a surprise, right? The first day in Japan hit me in the face like a brick. I did not expect anything yet sounds, smells and feelings are different from what I am used to. In a way I feel that I m going to lose my virginity again but in a different way. It feels that I don't have any reference points, physical and mental. And yet there are those leaves smiling at me, promising that everything is going to be all right. Damn Japan, you know how to trick me. And I love you for that. Dear diary, Today I decided to be a tourist so I picked up a train and went to the imperial city in east garden. To be honest at first I took the train in the wrong direction since my orientation is not good and the morning is always well morning. Anyway since the start I've had Marko's suggestion buzzing me in the ears so the temptation to get lost has been always there. Anyway after one hour of train I find myself in Tokyo and it felt so large with huge skyscrapers and a lot of space. Of course I take the wrong path to the garden and because I felt like walking I went around the whole Imperial Palace wall. Finally I make my way to the gardens and a zen like feeling gets me. I get inspire to visit a shrine so I went to Ueno and to the shrine. There I found a place with a god to pray to and help with exams. Seems I came in the right place, so I wash myself, I bow, I clap the hands and I pray. I'm not religious but I think it is a good idea to pay respect for the opportunity for this adventure. Also there was nobody around and it felt like a good thing to try. I know that is all up to me in the end, but in the silence of the shrine it felt right to let my thoughts fill the space for a moment. Afterwards I went off to the National Museum. As soon as I enter I found my way to tachi, katana, tanto and kodachi. Guys there were things I never saw! They were not many but very unique. Also the paintings and the masks everything was just breathtaking. After that the electronic city (Akihabara Electric City? Ed. Note) finished my day nicely and I thought that the place was crazy. There is no other way to describe it. Dear diary, Today was an interesting day. Everything went upside down. Four plans literally vaporized in my face and it seems nothing went the way should have gone. First I should have been training kali but it did not happen. Then I should have been going with others to see Oppama and spend a bit of time with them but it did not happen. Then I have been searching for the kendo shop but it was closed even if in the net they say it was open. At that point I decided to walk and I've been walking about 20 km even today all the way from the National gardens to Tokyo station to Ginza and back to Tokyo station. 3

5 I've seen a lot of good stuff but it has been raining all the time. That Ginza was something: all my fears attack me in there. Really I it is really beautiful pile of glittering shit anything that is there is completely worthless for me and there is too much of it. Is funny how the place is so glamorous as well as the people: beautiful girls and rich men. I swear when I walked out from the area I raised my arms and showed two middle fingers. C mon guys, what the fuck you do with all that? Nothing Today I bought a small knife, useful and beautiful, and I can do a lot with that. But I think that is not the point. It's something deeper. Maybe it's because that place made me feel lost and I have been searching for greatness in my past. In the last four years I lost the taste for it but I did not find what I like now or at least I'm not sure. But I'm sure I do not like that: I don't see honor, I don t see respect, I don t see values in that kind of life. It is just poisoning and a pointless, poor way to be. I know iai helped me find the way out from my darkness but I'm thinking that in budo the greatness is not measured in power or fancy stuff but in quality that a non-trained eye cannot see. I m here to study iai and I find it funny that most of the museum and right place to be are close to those places. Anyway I feel bad about the idea that places that I found are closed. That I travel to such a place like Ginza. Maybe today I just got bad luck, maybe I was blind and I thought that in here the closure was so deep that it did not poison the people but I was wrong. I realized we live in a world where the money talks. And I have to figure a way to deal with it. Call me integralist but places like Ginza are not for me and they represent something that I do not like. I got fire in my veins and I hope tomorrow I can bring it out in the right way. I feel I need to do it, I feel like I owe it to myself. I need to put the right fire in the right place. The fun part is to remember the shisei. If I concentrate on that the all things will be beautiful. Dear diary, Today has been first day of training. This morning I have been managing to buy the bokken and visit the sword museum. It is incredible how beautiful the Bizen blades are: the hamon looks like watching hills when the sun rises up and the fog in the valley is behind the hills. Plus forging patterns are intricate and you can figure why those swords are priceless. I got surprised that the tachi have such a small kissaki doe. Of course the main purpose is to slash when with the katana you must be able to stab, but still. Is amazing that around the sword museum it is so easy to find sword shops, nihonto shops. The fun part is that it looks like a suburban area and in the middle of nothing pops up one of those shops, most run by a family. Anyway I was so much with butterflies in my stomach because in the afternoon there would be the first training and I couldn't wait for it. It felt like I have to run a routine to find the right mindset, so I travelled back to the hostel, dumped all the stuff I bought on the trip, ate something and then carefully started to pack my bag and to check that all my equipment is in order, oil the iaito and so on. I know it might sound funny but for me preparing my bag carefully helps me to create the proper mindset for the training. In the end Mikko says always that if you do a mistake in iai the problem comes from what you did before that, so in some way preparing the gear in a careful way for me is like prepare mentally for a good reiho and good keiko. Going through everything makes feelings come to me in a complex way and they stimulate a form of sensation that always ends up making me think that I got to be humble and work as hard as I can. It also humbles the tiger that is inside me and in a way makes it more like a cub than a fully grown beast, but still with the attitude to test the limit of what it can do. Anyway I did not wish to be late so I went out pretty early to meet with the others and so that I could hear a bit of music, to relax my nerves. Also I like the feeling of how you walk and you observe but you take out the sound of the things and you substitute with a sound track. It helps me to find my iai poker face in a way. As soon as I met the others I could see that these guys were super focused. It was difficult to throw jokes and I realized that is better to shut up. Even Marko, who usually is super relaxed and open, was in a kind of focus, Henrik above all look like a man on a mission. I had so many questions. Is funny how generally we think of ourself in terms that we are facing the most difficult thing in life at the 4

6 moment and we do not realize that the others are doing that too. I mean of course rokudan is super difficult, and shodan look like super easy compared to that, but guys the feeling that I have is that I have to climb a mountain carrying a huge bag and no equipment for climbing. Anyway I had to find my focus the whole way through. Nakada school is in Tateba station stop. It is funny that we call it Nakada school when the station of Nakada is not where the school is. Then you have a walk to arrive to it and to reach the place you got to turn in the back of a chain restaurant that looks like a gas station. Then the voices of a lot of kids hit your face: they are all running and at the sound of the siren immediately fixing the sport area and preparing to leave it felt a bit surreal and I have never seen such order in kids. But it did not matter. We were at the training hall and it was time to prepare ourselves. We dressed up and Sensei and Rumi sensei arrived. It was so quick and unexpected. Some of us were still in underwear. After the bowing for thanking Sensei and Rumi sensei, and paying for the special training, everything started very fast. I felt that the air thicken and the intensity that these two person created for the training was incredible. They give an acceleration to everything that is difficult to deal with. Sensei started like a rocket with a very high speed: nuki, kiri, o-shiburi and noto, then shoden twice and toho twice. He led us and somehow it felt that everything was way too fast with no mistakes allowed, no stops allowed. It was a kind of welcome I think, Sensei 's and Rumi sensei's way to say: "Welcome. Now understand this: this is our way to train iai, get on it or you are not cut to be here. If we can do it you can do it too so buckle up and prepare to become better." After toho sensei s start with okuden tachiwaza, and I just stop and Rumi sensei ask me if I know chuden. I say yes, I've done it two 2 times and she says show me. I kind of got the idea that I just did a big mistake. In the end I kind of survived till Ukigumo she drop the head and say ok that is difficult technique and we start to do it together. A world is opening in front of me. From that point on for the next hour and half we have been watching chuden till the 5th technique and I had to show that I learned everything that she showed me about it. I could not make one mistake: she was on my neck. If my technique was not flawless I had to start again and again, and the same thing happened with toho and shoden. I did not stop for a second, I could not even wipe my front head. The only think I could hear in some point was her voice, and all the comments. Her voice was powerful and deep, and it inspired a lot of respect and motivated to do your best. When she shows you details it somehow motivates you to be the best that you can be and beyond. It's a different experience from camps: the mood is different, the energy is different, and you really cannot escape the view. I mean it's not like you get some teaching and a few tryouts with slower speed or some time to figure the teaching. You got to do it with full spirit and right, otherwise there's more comments. I felt like I don t wanna give to her or Sensei any reason to say to me things more than three times. The feeling in a way is cruel, I mean they literally drill you heavier than in army (I think), and you cannot hide or slack for a second. You are there and you got both pairs of eyes on you so that they cover every single movement of your body. It's a harsh treatment with no escape, and I believe if you will have time to think something else than what you do you will think "what have I put myself into?". But you don't have that time and you don t want to think that believe me. When you are there and when you think of all the sacrifices you made on the road till that wooden floor, all the sempai and kohai, their eyes, all the time you have given to iai, believe me when you are there you pull out the tiger and the dragon and other beasts from you to make your best and to try not to disappoint anyone. You try to be the best that you can and you want to improve every tenth of a second, stepping surely along your path motivated and guided by Sensei and Rumi sensei. When your gi is transparent and the only thing that prevents you from looking naked is the hakama, Sensei calls for another 10 nuki, kiri, chiburi and noto this time in a even higher speed. Then it is over. For the records even Sensei was sweaty. I carry myself back here and I realized I have to step my game up. I cancel all my plans for tomorrow, make a new plan, laundry and go to rooftop training to review everything of today. 5

7 Dear diary, I don t know what is driving me but I feel analytical and I don t care that I m in another world, I don t feel like a tourist, I m here for learning iai, and all the rest is secondary. Breathe in, figure and remember: breathe out, do it. Remember to write everything down. Yesterday I was so tired that I could not find my way back home and ended up at the stadium. Again in Nakada, I can see that the other guys are a bit nervous. It seems that they are also getting a lot of comments, and that destabilized their sureness. I have never seen a high grade worry, the only one who play cool is Jonas and I think it might be because Erik is with him and because he is the most stable of the three of us. Marko is emotional, Henrik is under pressure from the mails, but Jonas is just cool and in a way he is always somehow focused. In a way it seems that his shisei is always up and he got a strong zanshin, all the time. I got to admit that I m feeling sorry that the difference between the grades create a difference even in the relationship, I think if I would have been even in the same hotel it would not make any difference. Marko is the one that has been really helpful answering every time I had something to ask but generally they talk to me more for politeness than because they wish. As a proof of this I find that by the end of the trip we never been going out. I understand this is a grade thing and they are stressed because rokudan is a big deal, but somehow it feels not right. In my imagination it should be different but so it is and I ll make it an advantage for me. I got to say that I respect them anyway because they are really focused, but my way to understand iai is different. It s not just the grading day that counts for me, but every training and every day counts. Every time I think about iai or jodo I try to do it sincerely, deeply, but in a way that it become part of my life and not in a way that shuts things out. In a way it is a bit how Jonas has done in this trip: make his life part of the iai and iai part of his regular life. In a way when I watch Sensei doing iai it looks like that everything is so natural: like breathing, like leaving, his iai is his life and it s the same for Rumi sensei. There is no training because everything is always training, there is always life so if you make your life iai training and your training your life it s easy and you can start to relax. I guess. I remember and miss the first camp with Sensei. I was nobody, no grade and Mikko (rokudan) and personal student of Takada Gakudo took me with him. Every night he took me with him and introduce me to everyone. He made me feel that I belong. I think and I hope if one day I ll be sempai to someone I ll be like Mikko because I think that is iai too. Also I think there are no boundaries between countries in this matter. We belong to the same family. Is funny but this motivates me even more in a way. The loneliness with close by people make me more in fire. I mean c mon, it s ridiculous. Is even in the rules. Fuck it, I got to concentrate and make my way. Learn, Matteo, learn. Dear diary, Thank god today went better, even if it was a crazy day. This morning I got in touch with shinkali and I trained with them for three hours plus did little party. Those guys are great, very down to earth even if internationally they have got a big status. And they are animals really! But what a warm people. They took me in the family immediately. I just had to show what I can do and that I belong and they just made me one of them. We sweat, we gave bruises and we drank and talked. I ve seen few teachers that have such authority but at the same are so down to earth. Maybe Pasi, Mikko and Jari has got the same authority and they can talk to you without losing that authority. Anyway what a great morning. Eain and the others have got understanding of iai. This afternoon training was Oppama and with the other students of sensei. I was the younger, I mean was kohai of everyone even if in age there was a guy called Gen (16 years old) and oh my god Gen is a beast. The thing that impressed me is his timing and the meaning that he put in his iai. He is fast but it s not just how he articulates his movements. It is just unbelievable because he made me understand the Japanese high grade in terms of iai language. I could see the kata meaning so clearly in his technique. And the way to behave he was an 6

8 example. Anyway we go through the training and in the end we train jodo together. It was great as Rumi sensei was checking us and immediately we create a good vibe. Ok, it is different. I know he is a kid and I m a man but I think in iai physical age does not count. Anyway in the end of the training Rumi sensei say that we will both grade tomorrow and that in the morning we must train jodo together. Oppama was amazing and Sensei and Rumi sensei gave me double thumbs up for a lot of things. Sensei gave me some special suggestion for toroken and ryuto. I also noticed that from the first day they both become more relax towards me. Let's be clear, I got drilled every training, no breaks, no pauses, full spirit and full speed all time. But they were smiling and boy, it felt good. I mean today was great, now I have new friends and a partner for training tomorrow. Life is nice, and it s nice to put the headset on on the way back and feel that somehow things are happening. that bad but it was a clean start, still no worry just go on. Don t flinch, don t show anything. I felt like ice but in a good way, I mean I did not give anything. First technique and that sound that represent my spirit it comes from the sword, finally came out, inside I smiled and I just kind of let go, relaxed. I knew I was there 100 %. Of course I did mistakes (I think) but nothing to jeopardize my grading. Actually if I have to be sincere I think that this was my best grading so far. I really felt good, nerves on check and even if everyone say to me to don t watch Sensei, in end the techniques I dare to rise my eyes above the table front. I m still alive and nothing bad happened. But I have to admit that I had extra reasons. It sounds silly, I know, but those were deep enough to make me do things right. Dear diary, Dear diary, This has been the grading day. During the morning a lot of the Japanese high grades gave me suggestions and bust my ass. Me and Gen worked hard and we were the first to start and the last to leave. In the end of the training he came to me and said that grade is difficult. I said to him it does not matter, let s be strong and determined. He did not understand me so I show the bicep and make a gesture to be concentrated. He understood and he said ok let s do it together and that was it. I felt brotherhood and he did too, that was the last ingredient for my grading. I knew I was ready so we went to eat and I was super cool. We went to the hall, I dress up, Sensei came, Rumi sensei came, we bow, we got the paper, we prepared, I did not even use the all 10 min. I was ready, focused, I knew I had to be the first of the dan grade, before me there was only two kyu grades. There were a lot of judges but when I heard my name I loudly say "hai" and I walk in front of the lineup. No fear, no doubt, just a lot of focus, even if in the reiho the sageo got locked underneath the saya. It was not It took some time to figure how to write this last note. I m back in Finland and I got time to rethink the whole trip. In a way the thing that struck me most is that not being a Japan fan the place made me fall in love. I feel I want to go back. I m thinking of a way to stay there longer time. If I think why it is so the first reason I found is being at the dojo with Sensei. It is a different experience. Sensei is hard and very demanding but at the same time caring, kind and happy. The thing that is striking to me is that in a way I got the same feeling as at my first camp when I was mukyu and Mikko was talking in Finnish the all time. And then the camp after that and after that, I could not understand almost anything of the speech, so my way to learn iaido was through my senses and feelings. In Japan it has been the same but stronger. I had a clear feeling that if they would ask me I would have puked blood and gone till the edge of the world. The feeling that I have is that I wish for more of that treatment. It was wired to see Sensei sweating with us, Rumi sensei don t allow me a single mistake and have her eyes checking even my thoughts. They drove me to a new level and at the moment I think it belonged more to them that to me. But now I got time to make this thing mine own. Being demanding is a good a thing and 7

9 training with so high ranks made me realize that they have to talk with me, help me and see how everyone are. It was somehow eye opening to me. They see that you are truly dedicated, sincere and concentrate. It motivated me to be like that and ultimately I realized that this has made me a better person. Sato sensei and Toriyama sensei, which are very scary in a way because they are so good, became nice guides and I had the privilege to talk with them and receive teaching from them. It is priceless and amazing how at the dojo all the rules apply, those rules that define Nippon Iaido Kyokai. But there those are not rules, they are way of life and that becomes part of the spirit that fills you before the training. There would be a lot of thinks more to say but the truth is that if I could summarize everything in a sentence I would say that what I learn is this: make and leave everyday as it will be grading day, from when you wake up to when you go to sleep. It does not matter if you go to dojo or not every day is grading day, so make sure you are always ready and sincere. I just wish to thank my fellows for the trip: Marko with really big help and care about me, Jonas and Henrik, Pasi, Jari, Mikko and Ville who helped me to have this chance. My brothers Kai, Riku, Pete, Joonas, Conny, Annakaisa, Hanna and Kimmo and every one that practice in Finland, Sweden, Bulgaria and Austria. To all my new friends in Japan, to Sensei, Rumi sensei, Sato sensei, Toriyama sensei and Kotaro sensei I can only say thanks. I hope to pay back your efforts on me one day. One last inside thing. For leaving you with a smile on the face, one of my best friends said to me that is OK for me to grade in Japan only if I do not fuck it up. He said to me that he will give the blessing only if I succeed, trying was not good enough. So here we are, my friend. We did it, so thanks. Matteo 8

10 ARKISTOJEN AARTEITA: Oheisen tieteellisen uutisen ensi julkistuksesta on kulunut 12 vuotta, eli täysi perinteisen japanilaisen eläinrata-kalenterin kierros. Toimitusneuvosto piti aiheellisena uudelleen julkaisua, koska oheinen perustavaa laatua oleva tieto ansaitsee tulla myös uudempien iaidokoiden tietoon. Pääsiäisenä 2004 Tampereen Kaukajärvellä pidetty Takada-sensein seminaari todisti tärkeää tieteellistä edistysaskelta: Lauerma-sensei valitteli pukuhuoneessa, kuinka toisissa harjoituksissa aika tuntui ihmeesti venyvän. Toisaalta tiedetään suurten massakeskittymien vääristävän avaruutta ja hidastavan ajan kulkua 1. Tästä oli helppo ryhtyä intensiiviseen ajatustoimintaan jonka tuloksena syntyi Iaidon yleinen kenttäteoria Einstein osoitti, että energia on massaa ja päinvastoin. Toisaalta tieto on valtaa 2, ja valta voimaa, eli muutamia yhtälöitä manipuloimalla saadaan lopputulema tieto = massaa. Harjoituksen alkaessa Sali on täynnä innokkaita harjoittelijoita, jotka pursuavat energiaa. Se purkautuu huutona ja miekkojen suihkeena, ja kerääntyy salin ilmaan, jonka lämpötila nousee. 3 Samaan aikaan Sensein mukanaan saliin tuoma tietomäärä nostaa lämpötilaa omalta osaltaan. Se myös monistuu oppilaiden päissä, eli salissa olevan tiedon massa, ja salin lämpötila, kohoavat sitä nopeammin mitä useampia harjoittelijoita salissa on. miekka tuntuu harjoituksen lopulla painavammalta kuin alussa. Kasautuva massa hidastaa myös ajan kulumista, etenkin monien Takada-sensein pitämien harjoitusten viimeiset viisi minuuttia v e n y v ä t l ä h e s l o p u t t o m a s t i. Ajan lisäksi myös ääniaallot venyvät massan vaikutuksesta: miekkojen suhina laantuu harjoituksen loppua kohti. Harjoituksen päätyttyä tieto lakkaa monistumasta, ja oppilaista säteilevä energiavirta laantuu, joten sekä salin että metallikatodien (miekat, suom. huom.) massa-energiatasot alkavat stabiloitua. Oppilaiden lisääntynyt tietomäärä säilyy heidän aivoissaan ja kehoissaan kiteinä, jotka lisäävät kehon massaa. Laajojen empiiristen havaintojen perusteella sekä iaidokan keho että pää, miekasta puhumattakaan, painavat enemmän matkalla pois harjoituksista kuin harjoituksiin tullessa.tietokiteiden sulattelu on sitten kokonaan erillinen prosessi, jonka pituus vaihtelee tapauskohtaisesti. 4 Nobelia odotellessa huuhaa-palkintokin lasketaan tunnustukseksi Vesa Varhee, kevät 2004 (alaviitteet M. Kivelä, 2016) Lopulta salin ilmaan purkautunut energia saavuttaa saturaatiopisteen, ja alkaa tiivistyä massaksi. Empiiriset havainnot osoittavat miekkojen metallin toimivan kuin katodinapa, ja keräävän tiivistyvän energian itseensä. Kuten jokainen lienee havainnut, 1 Kts. Esim. Hawking, S Ajan Lyhyt Historia. WSOY 2 Esim. Foucault, M Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, Vintage. 3 Samassa rytmissä harjoittelun vaikutusta tähän ei vielä tunneta riittävästi, mutta joitakin hypoteeseja voidaan esittää. Esim. Strogatz, S Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. Hyperion. 4 Esim. Lucia. U Irreversible entropy variation and the problem of the trend to equilibrium. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 9

11 Ōno-ha Hōki Ryū iai Takada-sensein Musō Shinden Ryūn ohella opettamista muista koulukunnista Hōki Ryū 5 pohjautuu Katayama Hisayasun ( ) perustamaan koulukuntaan. Katayama Ryū Katayama Hisayasu aloitti harjoittelunsa enonsa Katayama Shōanin 6 kanssa, joka opetti hänelle perheen salaisen miekkataidon, jota kutsuttiin Iai Jūhattō ( 18 iain miekkaa ). V Katayama matkusti Kioton lähellä olevaan Atago jinjaan 7, jota voidaan pitää läntisen Japanin vastineena itäisen Japanin Katorin ja Kashiman pyhäköille (jotka siis innoittivat useita kuuluisia miekkamiehiä kehittämään omia tyylejään). Seitsemän päivän ja yön ankarien harjoitusten ja rukousten lopputuloksena Katayama koki pyhäkössä valaistumisen, johon liittyi kanjimerkki KAN sekä iso-no-nami tekniikan opetuksen ymmärtäminen. Tämän näyn mukaan hän nimesi uuden taitonsa Ikkan Ryūksi 8. Hänen kasvava maineensa vei hänet miekkailun opettajaksi 9 Toyotomi Hideyoshin 10 veljenpojalle Toyotomi Hidetsugulle 11 ja pojalle Hideyorille 12 Katayama kutsuttiin v esittelemään miekkailutaitoaan keisari Go-Yōzeille ( ). Vaikuttuneena Katayaman Iso-no-nami - periaatteesta, keisari aateloi hänet Jū-go-i-ge 5 伯耆流 6 Joissain lähteissä Shōan mainitaan Hayashizaki Jinsuken enona. Virheellisesti jotkut pitävät häntä myös Hayashizaki Jinsuken oppilaana. Katayama joissain lähteissä mainitaan myös Takenouchi Hisamorin sukulaisena. 7 愛宕神社 8 一貫流 9 hatamoto ja kenjutsu shinan ( 剣術指南 ) 10 豊臣秀吉, 豊臣秀次, Hōki-no-kami 13 hoviluokkaan (hovin luokituksen alin aste). Hōkin alue on nykyisen Tottorin prefektuurissa, länsi-japanissa. Aateluuden myötä hänen nimensä sai lisäkkeen Hōki-no-kami, joten hänet tunnettiin tämän jälkeen nimellä Katayama Hōki no kami Fujiwara Hisayasu 14. Osakan piirityksen aikaan v Toyotomin joukot lyötiin ja Katayama jäi näin ilman tukea ja virallista asemaa. Elämänsä toisen puoliskon aikana Katayama matkusteli ja opetti ympäri läntistä Japania mm. Shikokulla, Akissa ja Suo ssa (nyk. Hiroshiman alue) ennenkuin asettui v Iwakunin kaupunkiin, Yamaguchin prefektuuriin. Alueen hallitsijana oli Kikkawan suku, jolla oli vanhastaan ollut side Toyotomi Hideyoshiin. Katayama kuoli 76-vuotiaana ja hänen seuraajakseen tuli hänen toinen poikansa Hisataka 15, koska vanhin poika Hisakatsu 16 oli muuttanut Edoon ja perustanut oman traditionsa, Katayama Shindō Ryūn 17. Edo-kaudella oppilaat jatkoivat omia traditioitaan. Watatani Kiyoshi 18 laskee kahdeksan koulukuntaa, jotka polveutuvat Hōki Ryūsta. Näistä suurin osa oli pääosiltaan iaitraditioita, joten arvioidaan että Hoki Ryūn vahvuus perustui miekanvetotaitoon. Alun perin Katayama Ryū oli ns. sogobujutsu 19, johon sisältyy kenjutsu, iaijutsu, jūjutsu, bōjutsu, jōjutsu, naginatajutsu ja sōjutsu. Tradition opetus jatkui Katayaman perheessä Katayama Ryū kenjutsu 20 -nimellä mutta suku päättyi Hiroshiman atomipommiin II 12 豊臣秀頼, 従五位下伯耆守 14 片山伯耆守藤原久安 15 片山久隆 16 片山久勝 17 片山心動流 18 Kuulu budohistorioitsija 19 Sogobujutsu: koulukunta, joka sisältää useita bujutsun osa-alueita. 20 片山流剣術 10

12 maailmansodassa. Katayama Ryūn dokumentit ovat kuitenkin säilyneet koska viimeinen päämies, Katayama Busuke 21 oli lahjoittanut ne Iwakunissa sijaitsevaan Chōkokanin museoon vuotta ennen atomipommia. Katayama Ryūn linjassa viimeinen päämies oli 8. soke. Hoshino-ha Osakan linnan kaatumisen jälkeen Hōki Ryūta opetti Kumamotossa Asami Ichimusai 22, joka oli ollut Katayama Hisayasun oppilaana. Hōki Ryū olisi nykyään kadonnut, ellei 1700-luvulla Higon (nyk. Kumamoton prefektuuri) samurai Hoshino Kakuemon 23 olisi päättänyt opiskella Hōki Ryū iaita Kumamotossa. Hän oli aluetta hallineen Hosokawan perheen palveluksessa olea samurai. Hosokawat tukivat monia taistelutaitojen harjoittajia. Myöhemmin Hōki Ryūn opettajana Hoshino matkusti Iwakuniin harjoittelemaan päälinjan edustajien kanssa ja Hōki Ryūn neljännen polven päämies Katayama Risuke Hisayoshi antoi Hoshinolle virallisen luvan avata oma Hōki Ryū dōjō. Hän siis sai Hōki ryū -lisenssin Katayama Hisayoshilta ja hänestä tuli näin Hoshinon linjassa ensimmäinen, joka opetti Hōki ryuta Katayaman perheen hyväksymänä. Hoshinon perilliset ylläpitivät yhteyttä Katayamaan, saaden opastusta päälinjasta. Hoshino oli myös aktiivinen Shiten Ryū kumiuchissa 24 (paini) sekä Yōshin Ryū naginatajutsussa 25. Toukokuussa vuonna 1773 daimyōn päätöksellä Hoshinon suvusta tuli iain, kumiuchin ja naginatan opettajia, jotka jatkoivat tästä eteenpäin näiden kolmen lajin mestareina. Hoshino Ryūsuke 26, Kakuemonin adoptoitu poika, matkusti Iwakuniin 1804 harjoittelemaan Katayama Hisatoyon alaisena. Hän palasi Kumamotoon mukanaan virallisia dokumentteja, jotka lujittivat näiden kahden perheen ja traditioiden suhteita. Myös Hoshino Kumonin 27 sanottiin opiskelleen Iwakunissa Katayama Hisatoshin alaisena. Vuonna 1938 Hoshino Ryūta 28 kutsui Katayama Busuken Kumamotoon tuodakseen paremmin yhteen nämä kaksi Ryūn linjaa ja moni Hoshino Ryūtan oppilaista sai lisenssin suoraan Katayama Busukelta. Hoshino Kumonin ja Hoshino Ryūtan aikoina Hōki Ryūn pääpaikka oli edelleen Kumamotossa ja tradition oli Hoshinon suvun hallitsema mutta Japanin yhteiskunnan modernisaation myötä suvun ote alkoi herpaantua ja monet opettajat sijoittuivat eri puolille Japania. Kun 11. päämies, Hoshino Noritoshikin oli muuttanut Kumamotosta Kansain alueelle ja hänen kuoltuaan Hōki Ryū irtosi lopullisesti Hoshinon perheen käsistä. Nykyisin Hōki Ryū ryhmät ovat itsenäisiä ja erillään toisistaan. Lähes kaikki nykyiset Hōki ryu -harjoittelijat periytyvät tästä Hoshinon linjasta. Hoshinon pääpainoalueet Katayaman bujutsun laajassa ohjelmassa ehkä jouduttivat tradition lopullista kohtaloa. Suurin osa Hōki Ryūn haaroista hylkäsi ei-iaidolliset osuudet, vaikka jotkin ovat säilyttäneet kenjutsua. Tyylin haaroja on ollut eri nimillä, kuten Katayama Ryū, Katayama Hōki Ryū 29 ja Battō Hōki Ryū 30 ja sitä, mikä on säilynyt nykypäiviin kutsutaan yksinkertaisesti nimellä Hōki Ryū. Kuitenkin Katayaman perheessä taito tunnettiin aina nimellä Katayama Ryū. Se piti sisällään varsin laajan valikoiman taistelutaitoja kuten koshi-no-mawari ( paini ), kenjutsu ja iai. Katayama ja oppilaat kehittivät yli sata harjoitusmuotoa näissä lajeissa. Historiallisista syistä johtuen Hōki Ryūlla ei ole päämiestä tai sateenvarjo-organisaatiota sen eri haaroille. Suurimmat Hōki Ryū -ryhmittymät kuuluvat joko Zen Nippon Kendō Renmeihin 片山武助 22 浅見一無斎 23 星野角右衛門 24 四天流組討 25 楊心流長刀術 26 星野竜介 27 星野九門 28 星野龍太 29 片山伯耆流 30 抜刀伯耆流 31 全日本剣道連盟 11

13 tai Zen Nippon Iaidō Renmeihin 32, vaikka jotkin ovat pysyneetkin riippumattomina. Hōki Ryūn tekninen sisältö vaihtelee eri ryhmien välillä, mutta kaikilla on Iaissa Omote ja Chūdan sarjoissa yhteensä 15 kataa. Nämä iai-katat ovat ominaisia Kumamoton traditioille, eikä niitä ole ollut Katayama-perheen traditiossa. Näiden kahden iai-sarjan lisäksi joissain ryhmissä harjoitellaan myös Katayama Ryū kenjutsua. Hōki ryuta harjoitellaan pääasiassa Kumamotossa, Hiroshimassa ja Kansain alueella (Ōsaka, Kyōto ja Hyōgō). Pienempiä ryhmiä on mm. Akitassa. Japanin ulkopuolella on hyvin harvoja harjoittelijoita: Belgiassa, Italiassa, Hollannissa, Ruotsissa ja Suomessa sekä Indianassa, USA:ssa. Ōno-ha Hōki Ryū Kumamotossa syntynyt lakimies, kendōka (kōryū oli Shinkage Ryū kenjutsu) nimeltään Ōno Kumao 33 ( ) 34 (kendō 9. dan, judō 7. dan, iaidō 10. dan, Sui-ei dan) oli Hoshino Kuemonin iaioppilas. Ōno Kumao sai menkyokaiden-arvon opettajaltaan. Ōno Kumao erkani kuitenkin Hōki Ryūn päälinjasta ja näin sai alkunsa Ōno-ha Hōki ryu 36. Ōno kiersi opettamassa Hōki Ryūta eri puolilla Japania. Hän oli v uudelleen perustetun Dai Nippon Butokukain 37 ensimmäinen varapuheenjohtaja sekä tekninen johtaja. Ōno Kumao on avustanut myös useassa samurai elokuvassa opettaen näyttelijöille miekkailua. Hän oli myös Zen Nippon Iaidō Renmein päättävässä kokouksessa v Hōki Ryūn edustajana, kun ko. liitolle koottiin Tōhō-sarja. Takada Sensei Tokiossa käydessään Ōno majoittui Matsuo Kenpūn 38 majataloon. Takada-sensei opiskeli Hōki Ryūta Ōnon alaisena Matsuo dōjōlla. Myöhemmin Takada-sensei sai menkyokaiden arvon Ōno-ha Hōki Ryūsta. Takada-sensei on 2. sōke Ōno-ha Hōki Ryū traditiossa ja hän opettaa tätä oman dōjōnsa alla, Yūshingijuku Takada Dōjōn alaisuudessa. Ōno-ha Hōki ryu iai sisältää Omoteja Chūdan-sarjat. Takada-sensei aloitti Pohjoismaissa Ōno-ha Hōki Ryūn opettamisen ylemmille oppilailleen kesällä Tällöin minimiarvo mukaan pääsyyn oli iaidossa DNIR 3. dan+ MSR ryūgi arvo. Nykyään rajana on iaidon NIK iaidō 5. dan arvo ja lisäksi harjoittelijalla tulee olla MSR ryūgi arvo. 32 全日本居合道連盟 33 大野熊雄 34 明治 22 年 - 昭和 56 年 35 uinti 36 大野派伯耆流 37 大日本武徳会 38 松尾剣風 12

14 Katayama Ryū linja Katayama Hōki-no-kami Fujiwara Hisayasu 片山伯耆守藤原久安 ( ) Katayama Hōki-no-kami Fujiwara Hisataka 片山伯耆守藤原久隆 ( ) Katayama Kazuma Hisayuki 片山数馬久之 ( ) Katayama Risuke Hisayoshi 片山利介久義 ( 1798) Katayama Tsutomu 片山務人 ( ) Katayama Hisatoyo 片山久豊 ( 1846) Katayama Honkura Hisatoshi 片山本蔵久寿 ( ) Katayama Busuke Hisamichi 片山武助久道 ( ) Katayama Hōki Ryū linja Katayama Hōki-no-kami Fujiwara Hisayasu 片山伯耆守藤原久安 ( ) Katayama Hōki-no-kami Fujiwara Hisataka 片山伯耆守藤原久隆 ( ) Katayama Kazuma Hisayuki 片山数馬久之 ( ) Katayama Risuke Hisayoshi 片山利介久義 ( 1798) Hoshino Kakūemon 星野角右衛門 ( ) Seki Gumma Tsunetaka 関郡馬経貴 Hoshino Ryūsuke Mitoshi 星野龍介實寿 ( ) Hoshino Shirōzaemon 星野四郎左衛門 ( ) Hoshino Kumon Sanenori 星野九門実則 ( ) Hoshino Ryūta Sanashige 星野龍太實重 ( ) Hoshino Noritoshi Saneaki 星野宣敏実昭 12. Kanō Takehiko 加納武彦 12. Zaima Shun'ichiro 財間俊一郎 12. Niwata Yoshiho 庭田義穂 ( 2008) 13

15 Takada Sensein opettamat Ōno-ha Hōki Ryū tekniikat Omote ( 表 ) Osaenuki ( 押え抜 ) Kotegiri ( 小手切 ) Kiritsuke ( 切付 ) Nukidome ( 抜留 ) Tsukidome ( 突留 ) Shihōkanegiri ( 四方金切 ) Chudan ( 中段 ) Hizazume ( 膝詰 ) Mune no katana ( 胸之刀 ) Oikagenuki ( 追掛抜 ) Kaerinuki ( 返り抜 ) Issasoku ( 一作足 ) Mukōzume ( 向詰 ) Nagarōka ( 長廊下 ) Kissakigaeshi ( 切先返 ) Lähteet: Shihōzume ( 四方詰 ) 日本剣豪 100 人伝 (Gakken 2008) 日本古武道総覧 (Nihon Kobudō Kyōkai, 1997) The Samurai Tradition, vol. 2. (Stephen Turnbull, 2000) 伯耆流について-about-hoki-ryu/ Black Belt 1988: The Dai Nippon Butoku Kai Lisälukemista: Pasi Hellsten