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History

This section is designed to distinguish documentary evidence, scholarship, oral transmission and interpretation.

Reading from sources

History chapters

01Kage-ryu — From the Surviving DocumentsBeginning with the QA-3997 document group at the Tokyo National Museum, this chapter follows the name Ikō, the early transmission diagram, the Empi names, and their correspondence with Hikita-den.02Kamiizumi Musashi-no-kami — A Martial Artist and His Networks in Contemporary SourcesCentred on Tokitsugukyōki, this chapter follows Kamiizumi Nobutsuna's martial activity and connections with Senshu, Suzuki, and court society through the primary source, its transcription, a modern rendering, and interpretation.03Hikita Bungorō — A Successor Emerging from the Documentary GapFrom Hikita's absence in the Kyoto record, the chapter follows the forms 侏田, 分五郎, 文五郎, 景兼, and 栖雲斎 through transmission documents, then separates later tradition, Hikita family history, and unresolved questions.

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Chronology

Entries will connect dates, events, places, people and sources.

Chronology to be confirmed

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People and places

Biographical and geographical records will be cross-referenced here.

Records to be provided

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Documents and bibliography

Primary documents, transcriptions, research and books will be catalogued separately.

Bibliography to be provided

People

People in the modern transmission

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