Ryu founder : Akishino Keibu Saemon no Kami, Kiyonari ( Akishino clan of the Sugawara line( Kanke Honryu or Sugawara Honryu )).

Kiyonari distantly related to Sugawara Michizane ( 9th century courtier ).

Liked martial arts from childhood, learned bugei and military strategy and created Izumo Shin ryu.

Claims to be very old, but in reality Edo period construct .

Basic weapon technique comes from sword of Susanoo no Mikoto, Izumodachi.

The family served the Genji/Minamoto clan in Heian and Kamakura eras, then Ashikaga in Muromachi. In Sengoku, the Yamana.

After Nobunaga, defeats them they hide in Settsu province connected to Morikawa of Koka,and taught alonside Koka Shinobi.