Hikosuke Totsuka

In 1860, his prestige in the teaching of jujutsu carried to him to an audience with Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi, whom Totsuka showed his style by performing kata in his presence.

[8] He worked as the main hand-to-hand teacher of the Chiba Police Department, but also taught several great exponents of his art, like Matashiro Kashiwazaki, Jujiro Aizawa, Taro Terushima and Teisuke Nishimura.

[3][4] In 1885, Totsuka sparred against another renowned fighter, Tenjin Shin'yō-ryū master Katsunosuke Masuoka, and defeated him twice despite being 23 years older and the same weight.

[9] In the mid-1880s, his Tokyo students became entangled with the rising Kodokan judo school during the Kodokan-Totsuka rivalry, but Totsuka himself would not see its end, dying of an illness in 1886 in midst of the confrontations.

[3][4] He was succeeded by his adopted son Hidemi, who later joined Kodokan founder Jigoro Kano to form the jujutsu department of Dai Nippon Butoku Kai.