It is with great sadness that I learned that Masayuki Shimabukuro Hanshi passed last Saturday September 8.
Masayuki Hidenobu
Shimabukuro Hanshi was born in March 1948 in Osaka, Japan and began his sword
training in 1975 under the direct supervision of Miura Takeyuki
Hidefusa, Hanshi, 20th generation Grand'Master of Muso Jikiden
Eishin-Ryu.
As International Chairman of the Nippon Kobudo Jikishin-kai under Miura Hanshi, and for the Iai-do and
Batto-do divisions of the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai,Shimabukuro Sensei was in charge of the dissemination of
authentic Eishin-ryu Samurai swordsmanship outside of Japan.
Masayuki Shimabukuro Hanshi
was ranked 8th dan in Muso Jikiden Eishin-Ryu Iaijutsu, 8th
dan Shito-ryu Karate-do, 7th dan in Shindo Muso-Ryu Jojutsu and he
held the title of Hanshi - the highest title one can achieve in the
Traditional Japanese Martial Arts - in both Iaido and Karate-do.
Demonstration Venezuela 2007
Not all Masters are nice. Shimabukuro Hanshi was a wonderful person. I
only met him in 3 occasions, and - beside his technical expertise - I
was deeply impressed by his human qualities : kindness, humility and
patience. He was also a good cook !
All of us his students will deeply miss him.
The best way to now honor his memory is to train hard, improve our practice and polish our spirits to continue the transmission of the Art he was teaching us.
With deepest bows...
2 commentaires:
Posted by Elliston ROshi
Dear Jiryu-san,
Deep condolences for your loss. I feel this is a heartfelt and eloquent remembrance and tribute.
However - and this is not a criticism, but a teaching - in a way it is improper to grieve overly for these great masters. Death was a normal part of their lives, and they may have been OK with it, perhaps even welcomed it, when it came. Please see Huineng's comments about his impending death in The Platform Sutra. I have suffered terrible grief for the loss of a pet cat, or my own biological father, but could feel no real grief at Matsuoka-Roshi's passing. It would somehow have been inappropriate.
Post if you wish...
Gassho,
Sensei
I fully agree Sensei. THe loss is sad because Hanshi was a good person, and I wish I could have learned more from him, but Now that he is gone, grief won't bring him back, but I can try, with my little abilities, to transmit what I got from him.
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