流祖飯篠長威斎家直先生は、１４５０年頃に室町幕府の第８代将軍足利義正公の剣術指南役として京の都に招かれたようです。
長威斎先生は、供の者３人と京都に向かう途中で、旅籠の屋根の大改修工事に出喰わしました。 長威斎先生は供の者３人に屋根から落ちてくる危険物を避けるために反対側の道の端を歩くように命じたようです。 一行が、その場を通り過ぎた時、後方で喝采が起こりました。 １人の武芸者が屋根から落ちてくる大きな丸太を見事にかわし、難を逃れたからです。 その姿を見ていた者は、大いにその武芸者を称えたようです。
その時、長威斎先生が供の者３人に、”達人とは危険を事前に察知してそれを避けることのできる者だ”と教えたようです。 長威斎先生をはじめ、代々の飯篠宗家には、宮本武蔵や柳生十兵衛のような剣豪に纏わる華やかな言い伝えはありません。 それは、長威斎先生の命を忠実に守り、天地を敬い、危険を事前に回避して人間として穏やかに生きた証拠かもしれません。
The founder was invited to Kyoto by 8th Ashikaga Shugun, Mr Yoshimasa Ashikaga, as a sword master around the year of 1450.
The founder together with his tree followers encountered renovation of a big inn on their way to Kyoto. The founder asked his followers to walk through the edge of the opposite side in order for them to escape an accident. There were a big applaud behind them, when they had passed the place. A worrier beautifully escaped from a big log falling from the roof. People who saw it gave him a big hand.
The founder said to his followers, "A smart guy predicts such a danger and escape from it". There are not so many famous sword event which involved the founder and his descendants, unlike Mr Musashi Miyamaoto, Mr Jubei Yagyu, etc. It is a good evidence that his descendants have lived peacefully as a human being with nature by preventing danger in advance according to what the founder taught.
宮本武蔵
Worrier : Mr Musashi Miｙamoto
