![]() While Shigenobu is widely known under the surname “Hayashizaki”, he was originally from the Asano family. From the book “Kanbon Nihon Bugei Shoden”. Pic of a statue of Hayashizaki Shigenobu, which is housed in Hayashizaki Iaijinja. ![]() To understand this, we’ll look further into the family he was born into. While many martial schools give credit to his extraordinary development of techniques for fast “draw-cutting”, the reasoning for him even creating such a sword style was under grim conditions. The origins of battō/iai as we know it today takes place around the mid 1500s by a young man named Hayashizaki Jinsuke Minamoto Shigenobu (林崎甚助源重信).
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