Takamatsu Toshitsugu - Anyone meet him?

[Don Roley]

Wait. The ryus weren't founded until the peace of the Edo period. How would a person learn in battle and break off from a ryu then?

The ryuha system was around for centuries prior to the Edo period. It was not very popular until the Edo period, but there were quite a few like the Katori Shinto ryu, The Takeuchi ryu and others less known in the west that were around for a good long time before the Edo period.

 

[Rook]

The ryuha system was around for centuries prior to the Edo period. It was not very popular until the Edo period, but there were quite a few like the Katori Shinto ryu, The Takeuchi ryu and others less known in the west that were around for a good long time before the Edo period.

KSR has an official founding date of 1447 or 1480 depending on where I looked... so I guess I was mistaken.