Inland current - Utsumiryu

A school of early modern spearmanship (key spear). The founder of the school was Samon Utsumi Shigetsugu (?-1648). Samon was the son of Furuya Kizaemon, a retainer of Gamou Ujisato in his native Omi (Shiga Prefecture), and learned the nine-foot-handled key spear, which is said to have been invented by Toda Seigen (Tomita Seigen) of the Nakajo school, from Nakahori Hikoemon Nyudo Gensei, and was praised for his intricate technique. He first served Ishida Mitsunari, but after the Battle of Sekigahara (1600), he was employed by Todo Takatora with a stipend of 500 koku. During the Summer Siege of Osaka, he was credited with taking three enemy heads and capturing two alive, and was given an additional stipend of 500 koku, 1000 koku, and appointed as a gunner. He changed his name to Rokurozaemon, and later to Shosetsu. His eldest son, Kyubei Shigeyuki, succeeded him, taking the name Utsumi-ryu, and for generations the family served as the master of the Tsu Domain in Ise (Mie Prefecture). The eighth generation, Shigemune, who lived at the end of the Edo period, wrote works such as "Shukokahi," "Koden Shukai," and "Rozoron." Furthermore, in the section on spearmanship in "Bugeikoden," it says that he learned from the Uchimi-ryu school, its founder Uchimi Sanai, and Tomita Gosei, but this is thought to be a misprinting of a katakana character.

[Ichiro Watanabe]

"Okamoto Isamu, author and publisher, 'Okamoto Doukaden' (1937)" ▽ "Shimada Teiichi, editor, 'Japanese Martial Arts Series, Volume 7, Spearmanship' (1982, Dohosha Publishing)"

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近世槍術(そうじゅつ)（鍵槍(かぎやり)）の一流派。流祖は内海左門重次(さもんしげつぐ)（？―1648）。左門は生国近江(おうみ)（滋賀県）、蒲生氏郷(がもううじさと)の家人古屋喜左衛門の子で、同家の中堀彦右衛門入道玄清(げんせい)から、中条流の戸田清玄(とだせいげん)（富田勢源）が案出したという九尺柄の鍵槍を学び、その技術精妙をうたわれた。初め石田三成(みつなり)に仕えたが、関ヶ原の戦い（1600）後、藤堂高虎(とうどうたかとら)に500石をもって召し抱えられ、大坂夏の陣には敵の首三つ、生捕(いけどり)2人の殊勲をあげ、500石加増、1000石、鉄炮頭(てっぽうがしら)に任じ、六郎左衛門と改め、のち紹節と号した。長男久兵衛重行が後を継いで内海流を称し、以下代々伊勢(いせ)（三重県）津藩の師範家を務めた。幕末の8代重棟(しげむね)に『集古家秘』『古伝集解』『弄槍論(ろうぞうろん)』などの著がある。なお、『武芸小伝』の槍術の部に、打身流、流祖打身佐内、富田牛生(ごせい)に学ぶとあるは、当て字に誤写が重なったものとみられる。

［渡邉一郎］

『岡本勇著・刊『岡本道可傳』（1937）』▽『島田貞一編『日本武術大系第7巻　槍術』（1982・同朋舎出版）』

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