Toyama Ryu Battodo Battle-fieldTameshigiri: successive cutting of four targets.

Toyama Ryu Battlefield Tameshigiri is based on the one cut-one kill principle: the enemy had to be struck down with one blow of the sword. At 79, Hans Fricke, a former pupil of the late sword-master Nakamura Taizaburo still practices, teaches and demonstrates Toyama- and Nakamura Ryu Battodo at the Sei Do Kan dojo in Sydney Australia (established by Nakamura Taizaburo sensei in 2001). As far as can be ascertained Hans Fricke is the only non Japanese to hold a kyoshi 8th dan in Nakamura Ryu Battodo Happo