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    Yagyu Munenori was a Japanese swordsman and founder of the Edo branch of Yagyu Shinkage-ryu swordsmanship, which he learned from his father. This was one of the two official sword styles supported by the Tokugawa Shogunate. Munenori served the Tokugawa clan, first as a direct retainer and later receiving a higher rank and land. He taught swordsmanship to Tokugawa leaders and became an advisor to the third shogun. Munenori also wrote a treatise on applying swordsmanship principles to life and politics.

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    Yagyu Munenori was a Japanese swordsman and founder of the Edo branch of Yagyu Shinkage-ryu swordsmanship, which he learned from his father. This was one of the two official sword styles supported by the Tokugawa Shogunate. Munenori served the Tokugawa clan, first as a direct retainer and later receiving a higher rank and land. He taught swordsmanship to Tokugawa leaders and became an advisor to the third shogun. Munenori also wrote a treatise on applying swordsmanship principles to life and politics.

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    Yagyu Munenori was a Japanese swordsman and founder of the Edo branch of Yagyu Shinkage-ryu swordsmanship, which he learned from his father. This was one of the two official sword styles supported by the Tokugawa Shogunate. Munenori served the Tokugawa clan, first as a direct retainer and later receiving a higher rank and land. He taught swordsmanship to Tokugawa leaders and became an advisor to the third shogun. Munenori also wrote a treatise on applying swordsmanship principles to life and politics.

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    Yagyu Munenori (?? ???

    , 1571
    May 11, 1646) was a Japanese swordsman, founder of
    the Edo branch of Yagyu Shinkage-ryu, which he learned from his father Yagyu "Se
    kishusai" Muneyoshi. This was one of two official sword styles patronized by the
    Tokugawa Shogunate (the other one being Itto-ryu). Munenori began his career in
    the Tokugawa administration as a hatamoto, a direct retainer of the Tokugawa ho
    use, and later had his income raised to 10,000 koku, making him a minor fudai da
    imyo (vassal lord serving the Tokugawa), with landholdings around his ancestral
    village of Yagyu-zato. He also received the title of Tajima no Kami (???).
    Contents [hide]
    1 Career
    2 Bibliography
    3 References
    4 Further reading
    5 External links
    Career[edit]Munenori entered the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu at a young age, and
    later was an instructor of swordsmanship to Ieyasu's son Hidetada. Still later,
    he became one of the primary advisors of the third shogun Iemitsu.
    Shortly before his death in 1606, Sekishusai passed the leadership of Yagyu Shin
    kage-ryu to his grandson Toshiyoshi.[1] Following a period of musha shugyo, Tosh
    iyoshi entered the service of a cadet branch of the Tokugawa clan that controlle
    d the Owari province. Toshiyoshi's school was based in Nagoya and came to be cal
    led Owari Yagyu-ryu (?????), while Munenori's, in Edo, the Tokugawa capital, cam
    e to be known as Edo Yagyu-ryu (?????). Takenaga Hayato, the founder of the Yagy
    u Shingan-ryu, was a disciple of Yagyu Munenori and received gokui (secret teach
    ings) of the Yagyu Shinkage-ryu from him.
    In about 1632, Munenori completed the Heiho kadensho, a treatise on practical Sh
    inkage-ryu swordsmanship and how it could be applied on a macro level to life an
    d politics. The text remains in print in Japan today, and has been translated a
    number of times into English.
    Munenori's sons, Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi and Yagyu Munefuyu, were also famous swo
    rdsmen.

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