 Shogen Okabayashi

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 Ono-ha Ittō-ryū.Okabayashi is unique in that he spent significant amounts of time training under both Hisa Takuma, and Takeda Tokimune.