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- Works
- 7
Top works
- Modern bushidō
- Crimson steel
- Kama, weapon art of Okinawa
- Shinkendo Japanese Swordsmanship
- Shinkendo Tameshigiri
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Film & TV
Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Toshishiro Obata is the founder of Shinkendo. He is well known in Japan as a tameshigiri champion for several years in a row and is an authorized shitoka. He studied aikido under Gozo Shioda in the Yoshinkan Honbu Dojo, and studied the sword arts of Nakamura-ryu, Ioriken Battojutsu, Toyama-ryu, Yagyu Shinkage-ryu, Kashima Shin-ryu, Ryukyu Kobudo, and others. He moved to America in 1980 to start…
Known for
- The Samurai — self / swordsman2003
- The Hunted — Ryuma1995
- Red Sun Rising — Oyabun1994
- Blue Tiger — Kunimatsu1994
- The Shadow — Mongol1994
- Rising Sun — Guard at Imperial Arms1993
- Demolition Man — CryoCon1993
- Ulterior Motives — Bull Neck Yakuza1993
- Walker, Texas Ranger — Japanese Karate Instructor1993
- Rage and Honor — Chan Lu1992
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Gunma Prefecture
- Occupation
- choreographer
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Image
- Obata Toshishiro.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1948-10-20
- name in native language
- 小幡利城
- Commons category
- Toshishiro Obata
- name in kana
- おばた とししろ
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