Iāve seen some of those postings. Of course, even if it could be conclusively proven that Takamatsu received soke-ship of those arts from Toda, that would raise the question of how much Toda may have embellished the histories. Itās cool that Sean is doing the research though.Generally I agree
On the lineage thing:
Sean Askew has fairly recently managed to connect Takamatsu to his teacher (Toda) and establish that Toda was an esteemed sword instructor, came from Iga (family owned a castle there), worked for the shogun on āspecial projectsā etc and pretty much back up the oral history of certain events that happened to him
Heās regularly posting on facebook etc with his findings - which are the first time someone knowledgable has actually taken the time to do some pretty thorough research