Master Kiyomoto Ogasawara: Ogasawara-ryu 850 years of Samurai Heritage
The Ogasawara Family lineage can be traced back to the 9th century; the 56th emperor of Japan. Ogasawara Nagakiyo, founder of the Ogasawara-ryu School, had served the first Shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate in 12 century as his instructor in the arts of Reiho (courtesy, etiquette and protocol), archery, and horse-mounted archery. Since then, the Ogasawara family has instructed in those disciplines for Ashikaga, and Tokugawa shoguns. The discipline has passed down from generation to generation within the Ogasawara Family. Ogasawara Kiyomoto :Born in 1980 as the first son of Ogasawara Kiyotada, the 31st Grand Master in Tokyo. At the age of three, Kiyomoto began training for mounted archery (Yabusame). […]
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