Ittô-Ryû

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This school is the center of the search of Manji and Lin, since their goal is to kill the current chief out of it Kagehisa Anotsu, of this malicious fact almost all the of the Manga result from this school. Ittô-Ryû was creates by Saburo Anotsu and with its death, Kagehisa Anotsu in taken the head.

The base of Ittô-Ryû is a Way of the saber which would include all the others: in other words, Ittô-Ryû is a concentrate of all the schools and so all the schools belong to Ittô-Ryû. This very totalitarian sight obviously will attract much trouble with Anotsu and its disciples, who will be perceived with a mixture of hatred and fear. The second great principle is freedom: no matter who can join Ittô-Ryû even the peasants (who do not have according to the jurisdiction of the time not the right to carry weapons). Moreover, the members of Ittô-Ryû can handle the weapons or use the technique which they judge most suitable to gain a combat, the important one being to arise victorious. In fact the only restriction to return in Ittô-Ryû is to be strong, like says it Anotsu to Lin: " We do not need fencer unable to overcome ". Because of that much of people will join Ittô-Ryû to be in the camp of the forts and at the bottom Ittô-Ryû is only one great regrouping of rônins and gangsters.

However among the members of Ittô-Ryû, certain driving have a hidden goal: to restore the country weakened by the wars and the relative peace, which reigns from now on. In a world of peace, the swashbucklers do not have any more their place, which is unacceptable for warriors such as them. These people are the thirty founders of Ittô-Ryû, such: Anotsu, Abayama, Kuroï or Magatsu.

The general organization is rather anarchistic: the men (and women) of Ittô-Ryû are free to do what they want and from time to time the chiefs meet to discuss the things to make, of the dojos to be annexed, etc So many fencers have also a second job such as: tattoer, painter (Kawakami Araya), shoe-maker (Magatsu), poet (Kuroï), masseur of feet (Higa), etc the hierarchy is divided into two, on the one hand there are the leaders (who are strongest of all) and other, all the remainder, which is used in fact as rank and file.

Currently Ittô-Ryû was dislocated and awaits the " Rising of the Winter " to reconsider the front of the scene. It remains only little of members after the carnage of the banquet.

Small anecdote, the school of the name of Ittô-Ryû really existed, it was creates by Ittosaï Itô and was one of most prestigious of the era Edo (with the Yagyu school).

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