Gosoku-ryu Shinken learning ancient Kobudo katas while developing his own for his school. The Kobudo kata created by him include: Takemasa Okuyama and Temoanarupe Inuhaere are ranked as 8th dan. Several people were awarded the rank of 7th dan and title of Shihan in Gosoku-ryu: Gosoku-ryu The International Karate Association (IKA) was formed in Tokyo, Japan in 1953 for the purpose of teaching and promoting the Gosoku style of karate. Gosoku-ryū, "the style of force with speed", incorporates the methods of Goju-ryū and Shotokan karate with aikido, jujitsu, and judo. It is applied so as to encompass any attacker from all
Tachikawa-ryu developed by Kakuban and Dōhan. (Sanford 1991) The two main schools of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism (vajrayana-tantra, Japanese: mikkyo) are Shingon and Tendai. Tachikawa-ryu belonged to the first of these schools. It was injected into Shingon from Tibet via Taoism. First off, Tachikawa-ryu as a school of tantra is first and foremost a system of correspondences between microcosm (male) and macrocosm (female). Thus Tachikawa-ryu, as Shingon and Tendai, can be thought of as a reintegration of the world into the soteriological path, since man and world, man and the universe, are now fundamentally the same. In any case it is important