MT:Iga Ryu or Koga Ryu?

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Iga Ryu or Koga Ryu? By allenjp - 04-30-2008 02:37 PM

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Hi all,

I have seen some info on line talking about either Iga ryu or Koga ryu ninjutsu. Some say that they are more authentically ninjutsu than bujinkan because of the Samurai components of Bujinkan. I even saw one man claiming to be soke of Iga Ryu (an American, I thought that was rather interesting). One woman was even claiming to have learned Koga Ryu from someone other than Masaaki Hatsumi. Any comments on these?


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Koga Ryu is very controversial issue, mate. It is said there is no heir of Koga Ryu nowadays. There is a story of a Japanese master named Fujita Seiko that supposedly was a heir of Koga Ryu Ninjutsu traditions. He died in the 60's.
And there is also a master named Jinichi Kawakami that claims to be the heir of Koga Ryu. He has only one occidental student, a Spanish named Juan Hombre.
But it is very doubt full all this Koga Ryu stuff.