HISTORY
The system known today as Kaze Arashi Ryu (Wind Storm Tradition) has not always borne this name. During the late Edo, Meiji, and Taisho periods it was known as Yama Arashi Ryu (Mountain Storm Tradition) but, when taught in a specific geographical location, the name of that location prefaced the tradition name. An example of this is Kazemura (Wind Village) Yama Arashi Ryu. Kazemura is a description of one place where the tradition was formerly taught.
The person credited with the founding of Kaze Arashi Ryu as it is practiced today is Nishiyama Shiro. Nishiyama trained in Yama Arashi Ryu and it was this tradition that was passed on to his family. Leonard Samuel Marshall learned the art from the Nishiyama family and instructed Vilaire Sensei directly.
In former times, the tradition was organised into six arts:
Atemi (striking techniques) and Keiraku ('study of meridians')
Seigyo (controls) and Gaeshi (reversals)
Nage (throwing) and Otoshi (dropping)
Ken (sword) and Jo (staff)
Ryuha (battle strategies) and
Toatenojutsu ('striking from a distance')
A practitioner was previously able to gain a teaching licence in each art separately and, indeed, several of the arts were passed down along separate lines.
In modern times, Leonard Samuel Marshall, Tåkichi Ono Nishiyama, and a few un-named individuals were known to have mastered and continued to teach all six arts. It was Vilaire Sensei, based on recommendations from Leonard Samuel Marshall and Takichi Ono Nishiyama who shortened the name of the tradition to Kaze (to represent Kazemura) Arashi (to represent Yama Arashi) Ryu. The reason for the Japanese reading of the three Kanji, instead of the single, shorter Chinese reading (Furan Ryu), is to maintain the division of the ideas of Kaze and Arashi as coming from Kazemura and Yama Arashi.
It was mainly Leonard Samuel Marshall, amongst others, who taught the knowledge of Kazemura Yama Arashi Ryu to Henri Robert Vilaire. Henri Robert Vilaire has in turn taught the current senior instructors of Kaze Arashi Ryu, namely Abel Castanos, Chris Sookchand, Srinivasan Sastri, William Franklin, Mark Sprague, Dean Karras, Ralph Cruz, Jody Romans, Agustin Ramirez, Roland Montes, Shuman Lee,
Paul O'Callaghan and Kirby Watson.
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