Hōzōin Inshun

Hōzōin Zeneibō Inshun (宝蔵院 禅栄房胤舜, 1589 to February 5, 1648) was a monk and a martial artist who lived in the early Edo period. He was an Inju (the chief of a temple) of Hozoin Temple, which was a branch temple of Kōfuku-ji temple in Nara Prefecture. He was accomplished at the Hōzōin-ryū sōjutsu School of spearmanship, which was founded by Hōzōin In'ei and features the use of a Jumonji kama-yari (a cross-shaped spear with a sickle on both sides of the blade)

Biography Inshun was a descendant of a (country samurai) in Yamashiro Province. The members of modern Hōzōin-ryū are visiting and maintaining the graves. Whether due to the old age of the first headmaster of the Hōzōin-ryū or due to the youth of his successor the man who met Musashis challenge was Okuzōin Dōei. Later on in his life Musashi dueled (and won) with another Hōzōinryū user, Takada Matabee. That took place in Kokura in Buzen Province in 1632.