What is Toyama Ryu?
Toyama ryu Gunto no Soho was created in 1925 as part of the Rikugun Toyama Gakko curriculum, which was founded in 1873, and was a school in the Imperial Japanese Army. Army officers were taught how to use the gunto with the seven battoho techniques that were researched from koryu toho. After World War II, three instructors with relations to the Toyama army school resumed teaching Toyama Ryu to the public. The techniques of the three individuals began to differ as time passed, so the three men came together once in an attempt to unite and standardize their organizations and techniques. Unfortunately, this effort failed. Nakamura Taizaburo was one of the coaches at the Toyama army school, and he was one of the three mentioned previously who resumed teaching Toyama Ryu after the war. The Zen Nippon Toyama Ryu Iaido Renmei was established to hand down these Toyama Ryu techniques, and Nakamura Taizaburo titled himself SoShihan of the Federation. This organization added an eighth technique t
