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is a well known Kansai based aikijujutsu teacher. He was a founding member and one of the shihan or ‘senior teachers’ of the Takumakai Daitō-ryū group, founder of the Hakohokai branch and later founder of the Hakuhō-ryū which is based upon the techniques of Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu and the Ona-ha Ittō-ryū. Okabayashi is unique in that he spent significant amounts of time training under both Hisa Takuma, and Takeda Tokimune. Hisa was the founder of the Takumakai Daitō-ryū group and was a direct student of Daitō-ryū's founder Takeda Sōkaku. Takeda Tokimune was the son of Sōkaku and inherited the leadership of the main branch of the art. Okabayashi played a pivotal role in a growing relationship between the Takumakai and Tokimune's Daitōkan group during the 1980s and 1990s. ==Background== Born in 1949 in Ashiya city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Okabayashi Shōgen developed an early love for the martial arts. His first exposure to martial arts was the Shitō-ryū style of karate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Okabayashi Shōgen )〕 In addition he is reputed to have been exposed to a style of kung-fu while living in Taiwan. While still a young man he was attacked by a young yakuza wielding a bokken. Having developed strong abilities in striking based arts he felt hesitant to use these skills against his young assailant for fear of gravely injuring him and so blocked strike after strike on his arms eventually scaring his attacker away without retaliating. Having injured his arms in this altercation he began to feel the limitations of arts which relied predominantly upon striking.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shogen Okabayashi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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