Toshitsugu Takamatsu.
He travelled through Mongolia to China at the age of 21, taught martial arts and fought many life or death battles. [4]He taught martial arts at an English school in China and had over 1000 students. He was the bodyguard of the last Chinese Emperor Puyi. He became a Tendai Buddhist priest in 1919. In 1921 he was permitted to copy the Kukishinden Ryu scrolls (+ Amatsu Tatara scrolls) of the Kuki family. He was also a good friend of Jigoro Kano (Kodokan Judo) and took care of his younger brother. They both lived in the same region.

During the Second World War (1945) the original scrolls were destroyed and lost[citation needed]. In 1949 he presented new scrolls to the Kuki family which he had rewritten based on his copies and memory. He was deaf on one ear also due to one of his fights. He said that a Shaolin fighter and a Shorinji boxer were the most dangerous enemies he ever met. He was buried on Kumedra cemetery in Nara. He used to write articles for the Tokyo Times newspaper. He was well known in Japan as a Grandmaster of Ju-Jutsu and Bojutsu.[citation needed]

In May 1950, Toshitsugu Takamatsu established Kashihara Shobukai in Nara prefecture. In the post-War era Takamatsu spent his time developing successors to his martial tradition. At the same time, he often sponsored Magokuro-kai-musubi tsudoi meeting and lectures about Amatsu Tatara, especially Izumo Shinpo, and reared many martial artists and religious leaders.[citation needed]

Grandmaster Hatsumi.
He is the founder and International Director of the Bujinkan Dojo with its Hombu Dojo, the Bujinden (Divine Palace), residing in Noda City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan and has an administration office attached to his downtown home. He is married to his lovely wife, Mariko, a famous Japanese dance teacher and 10th dan director of women's training for the Bujinkan. Dr. Hatsumi is the inheritor of nine Classical Japanese Warrior Art traditions from the late O'Sensei Toshitsugu Takamatsu (the last true living Classical Japanese Warrior) in the early 1970's just before Soke Takamatsu's passing in 1972. It is said that Dr. Hatsumi was the only one receiving indepth training with the great Takamatsu during the last 15 years of his life.

He is the grand master of:
Togakure Ryu Ninjutsu - founded in the late 1100's AD by Daisuke Nishina
Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu - mid 1100's by Tozawa Hakuunsai
Koto Ryu Koppojutsu - mid 1500's by Sakagami Taro Kunishige
Kukishinden Ryu Happo Hikenjutsu -mid 1300's by Izumo Kanja Yoshitero
Tagaki Yoshin Ryu Jutaijutsu - early 1600's by Takagi Oriuemon Shigenobu
Shinden Fudo Ryu - mid 1300's by Izumo Kanja Yoshiteru
Gikan Ryu Koppojutsu - mid 1500 by Uryu Hangan Gikanbo
Kumogakure Ryu Ninpo - mid 1500's by Iga Heinaizaemon no Jo Ienaga
Gyokushin Ryu Ninpo - mid 1500's by Sasaki Goemon Teruyoshi