AMATSU TATARA

The words Amatsu Tatara are not well known. However, the knowledge of the secret scrolls and books of the Amatsu Tatara are well known to special Japanese scholars, martial artists and spiritual experts. It is very difficult to explain the Amatsu Tatara because it is traditionally intended for a special Grandmaster or special priest. For this reason it has been kept very secret.

Shoto Tanemura is the 58th Grandmaster of Amatsu Tatara Bumon (martial arts) and Shumon (spiritual). He feels the time for his true mission has come and that is to show the world what Amatsu Tatara is.

Amatsu means Heaven or Nature. Tatara means the highest secret teaching system of martial arts and original Shinto spirit.

The Amatsu Tatara Hibumi (secret scrolls) are special scrolls about all martial arts, spiritualism and humanism. These were written about 700 BC by the King of Mima as the history of Japan.

Grandmaster Takamatsu Toshitsugu Sensei had mastered the Amatsu Tatara Bumon Shumon and made better known the word of Amatsu Tatara by his explanations after World War II.

He taught and gave these teachings to his highest students: Grandmaster Sato Kinbei Sensei, Grandmaster Kimura Masaji Sensei, Grandmaster Ueno Takashi Sensei, etc. ...

AMATSU TATARA REIHO

What is truely mysterious? If I use another word to explain the meaning of it, I would say it is "awareness". It's a true mystery. To explain what I mean by this, let us take the example of a deathly ill patient being examined by a Western medicine Doctor and an Oriental herbal Doctor. The former tells the patient he can't be helped, while the latter can treat him effectively. Another parallel is that of a person succeeding in doing something that he has been thought by others to be impossible to do.

Simply speaking: "Imagine a bicycle". Looking at it, we can clearly understand what it is for, and how to use it. Yet in the case of the human body, such clarity is non-existant. When seeing a model of it, we can't perceive the entirety of it. In the not so distant past, people thought that air machines were an impossibility. But now such things are common, discovered through the efforts of human ability. So I feel there is still unlimited items to be made through human ingenuity. I feel for example that the present aircraft which require so much space for landing and take off, in the future will be able to land and take off vertically with another option of being able to hover in mid air.

Taking into consideration the working of the conscious and subconscious, there is no limit to these abilities. Yet with the human body there are physical limits imposed. Take the case of a person having a strong subconscious, they are able by the control of it to lessen the pain and injuries of burns when fire is applied to certain parts of the anatomy. This amazes the average person who thinks such things are miracles. Yet understand that even with utmost patient training in this, still there is a point where the fire will overcome. But this kind of training is equal to that of training the spirit.

This is the true miracle event, the power of the human spirit, which is the combination of "the miraculous, the mysterious and faith" being akin to natural religion. From these 3 the true super sense can be developed. As an academic theory this is called "Amatsu Reiho" (special knowledge for the use of the spirit of Heaven).

We are not only the people of one nation or religion, indeed we are universal beings. So it is that we must all make effort to try and contemplate all things in a benevolent light. This is the very foundation of what it means to be human. Consciousness and subconsciousness are the 2 forms of awareness. If a person is cast totally in his subconscious mind, he can experience ghosts and is too vulnerable to physic influences. On the other hand, the person using only his conscious mind can catch nothing, even if he tries with all his might. Parents worried about their sons going to war, constantly think and pray for them, through which they make a link through which the spirit of their child can communicate with them. So it is that strong motivation, visualizations, prayers or desires when continously repeated with faith, are put in into the subconscious mind, so that they are likely to be realized on the material plane. In that point or focus the power of belief can be effective.

Grandmaster Takamatsu Toshitsugu Sensei

Note from Grandmaster Tanemura Tsunehisa Shoto Sensei:

The relationship of the conscious and subconscious is the academic theory for "Shiryugaku" (study of religion and spirit). This theory applies to hypnotism, Kiaijutsu, Shingenjutsu (mental powers), prayers and fortune-telling. Having understanding of it, one can comprehend. This theory is interwoven through all levels of Shinto, Mikkyo, Buddhism, Shugendo and Ninpo.