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) or oral transmissions. There are many of them, to this date....
(T. 2456.79:849a10–13)Yūkai’s strategy of criticizing people who were not on his side, accusing
them of teaching more or less explicitly sexual doctrine and practice,
and labeling them all with the name “Tachikawa-ryū,” was very suc-
cessful. We can see how the received disparaging image of the “non-
real Tachikawa-ryū,” such as that recorded in the Kōjien quoted at the
beginning of this essay, could have been formed as a result.