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Takamatsu Toshitsugu
高松寿嗣 （ たかまつ としつぐ ）
Toshitsugu Takamatsu (高松 寿嗣, Takamatsu Toshitsugu)'s real first name was Hisatsugu but he changed it later to Toshitsugu using the same Kanji but different pronunciation. He was born on 10 March 1887 in Akashi and died on 2 April 1972.
Master of Martial Arts.
He had a cat (Jiro) and enjoyed painting very much.
He traveled through Korea and Mongolia to China at the age of 21, taught martial arts and delivered many battles on life or death. He learned 18 Korean and Chinese martial arts from Kim Kei-Mei. He taught martial arts at an English school in China and had over 1000 students. He was the bodyguard of the last Chinese Emperor Puyi. He became Tendai Buddhism priest in 1919.
He was well known in Japan as a Grandmaster of Ju-Jutsu and Bojutsu but many people were surprised by his death to hear that he was a true Ninja Grandmaster (of 9 schools).
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Daruma painted by Takamatsu Sensei
. . quote from : Marco Verheij ~risu
Daruma on a Rush-Leaf, Royoo Daruma 芦葉達磨
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