初見良昭 Masaaki Hatsumi Bujinkan dojo Soke 9 schools:
Togakure-ryū (戸隠流)
Gyokko-ryū (玉虎流)
Kuki Shinden Happō Biken jutsu (九鬼神伝流八法秘剣術)
Kotō-ryū (虎倒流)
Shinden Fudō-ryū Dakentai jutsu (神伝不動流打拳体術)
Takagi Yōshin-ryū Jūtai jutsu (高木揚心流柔体術)
Gikan-ryū Koppō jutsu (義鑑流骨法術)
Gyokushin-ryū Ninpō (玉心流忍法)
Kumogakure-ryū Ninpō (雲隠流忍法)
,born in Noda, Chiba on December 2, 1931.