Zenbukan

Whatever happened to Zenbukan.

Don't hear much about them these days are they still around?

 

Shouldn't this be in the Karate (kempo) forum?

 

no, there was an x-kan known as Zenbukan around 10years ago. Can't remember the name of the guy who started it but I think he was one of Hatsumis first students

 

You sure you don't mean Genbukan?

 

no, it was always genbukan , zenbukan and jeninkan.

i'm not sure what order chronologically. but they setup around mid 90s. unless they BECAME jeninkan or genbukan

but i'm pretty certain they were seperate from the other 2

 

Bujinkan was the first and is the largest of the X-Kan organizations. The Genbukan was started in 1984 after Tanemura Soke left the Bujinkan, and the Jinenkan was started in 1996 after Mr. Manaka left the Bujinkan. Never heard of any Zenbukan as far as ninpo goes.

 

You can't even spell Jinenkan.

 

I know! BAD ME! STUPID, STUPID ME for reversing the e and the i at 3am in the morning , typing with no lights on so i don't wake the wife up.

I shall commit suppeku immediately

 

Next time wake up your wife and have her show you how to use spell check and :google:

But suppeku works, too. Either way.


- Mark Spada

 

and padentic

 

With my wife's eyesight I probably would've ended up using yahoo instead.

 

ok, found this, but this is not the organisation that I was looking for:

http://web.mac.com/johnnyv145/iWeb/zen bu kan dojo/ZEN BU KAN DOJO.html

 

That wouldn't matter. There was no "Zenbukan" organization.

You are trolling.


- Mark Spada

 

Then you are definitely trolling.


- Mark Spada

 

:topic:

Wow. Hideki Iwakabe, mentioned on that page, was an assistant instructor (shodan, still in his teens I think) at the Shotokan karate dojo in Denver where I got my very first formal martial-arts training, starting in the summer of '67. Went on to get respectable ranks in Shotokan, Kendo, and Iaido.

 

I've never heard of this org either.

 

You sure you're not thinking about Muramatsu & Myofu An?

 

I never heard of any "Zenbukan" until now myself.

 

no the name was like manayku or something

 

I think he's referring to Tom Maienza and the Jizaikan, a spin-off from Toshindo.