[1] Hokushin Ittō-ryū is a very intense duelling style which focuses on simple and fast techniques where no unnecessary movements are made.

Gogyō-no-kata has five kumitachi and three kodachi-gumi which look very similar to Koshi-Gogyō-no-kata (高師五行の形), which were the Nakanishi-ha's kata as revised by Takano Sasaburo (高野佐三郎) in 1908.

[citation needed] In 1932, Noda Wasaburo (野田和三郎) and Kobayashi Sadayuki (小林定之) demonstrated seven kumitachi and three kodachi-gumi as Hokushin Ittō-ryū at Kyoto-Butokuden (京都武徳殿).

The kata names and techniques were introduced by Konishi Shigejirō (refer to Kendo Nippon, Mar.

Towards the end of the Bakumatsu period (1853-1867), the Hokushin Ittō-ryū was one of the three biggest and most famous ryūha all over Japan.

Swordsmen of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū had a strong influence on the development of modern kendō in the late 19th century.

The traditional five scrolls of Hokushin Ittō-ryū are: The so-called Naginata Mokuroku 長刀目録 also exists and is normally issued together with the Menkyo (Chūmokuroku).

[citation needed] Chiba Shūnosuke Koretane restored the Edo-Genbukan in 1883 with the help of Inoue Hachirō and Yamaoka Tesshū.

[2] The Chiba-Dōjō of Chiba Sadakichi Masamichi (younger brother of school's founder) became one of the most famous Dōjō all over Japan after its founding in the late 1840s.

Therefore he renounced his family's claims and documents to Ōtsuka Yōichirō Masanori, the 6th Sōke who trained under Konishi Shigejirō of the Noda-ha Hokushin Ittō-ryū.

After the Meiji-restoration and the abolishment of the traditional clan system the Kodokan was closed, so in order to continue teaching, Kozawa Torakichi opened his own Dōjō, the Tobukan.

(Torakichi's second son Kozawa Jiro Atsunobu (小澤二郎篤信) inherited Suifu-ryū kenjutsu from his own other dōjō.)

Kobayashi Seijiro was granted the Inka-jo from Chiba Michisaburo, and opened the Shisei-kan dōjō in Tokyo.

A student of Konishi Shigejirō, Tsukada Yoshikazu, Takano Sanetora (高野眞虎) teaches in his dōjō called Kotōkan in Nagano.

This building was built in the Bakumatsu period, the construction is based on the Kodōkan (弘道館) in Mito (水戸).

Sakurada Sakuramaro 櫻田櫻麿 was the Sendai-han's instructor of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū in Edo period.

[clarification needed] In the 20th century, Tsumura Keiji claimed that he had inherited Sakurada Sakuramaro's Hokushin Ittō-ryū line.