Tengu Akasha Dojo is not a single martial art. It is an integrative system that has grown over thirty years — Ninjutsu in the Taguchi lineage as its core, Escrima and Arnis from the Philippines, Bagua Zhang and Tai Chi from Daoist China, Kuji Kiri as the binding spiritual thread.
What ties them together is not technique. It is the mediumistic dimension — the connection with the spirits that runs beneath every authentic warrior tradition.
What "Akasha" means in practice
Akasha (Sanskrit ākāśa) is the infinite space. In Japanese Buddhism it is the realm of Kokūzō Bosatsu — the bodhisattva from which the so-called Akashic record arises. When you train the body diligently for years and stay open to spirit-connection, that space begins to open for you. The teacher is no longer only outside. The teacher arrives through you.
This is the experience my grandmaster Taguchi Sensei lived. It is the experience I carry forward — and that I am passing on as his direct successor.
The pillars of the system
Ninjutsu — the Taguchi lineage
Not the entertainment-Ninjutsu of films. The real, historically-rooted Japanese warrior art with deep ties to Shugendo, Shingon, and the magic of Kuji Kiri. Body-arts (Taihenjutsu, Jūnan Taisō, Taijutsu), weapons (Katana, Bō, Hanbō, Tantō, Tanbō), and the four core disciplines.
Escrima · Arnis · Kali
Filipino stick, blade and empty-hand combat with shamanic roots. Animism, spirit-work, ritual fighting — long before it became a sport.
Daoist martial arts
Bagua Zhang and Tai Chi as Daoist spirit practices. Not health gymnastics — cosmic movement meditation, in direct line with shamanic Daoism.
Kuji Kiri — the binding thread
The nine seals are the spiritual heart that runs through all the traditions in this Dojo. In Naruto and Jujutsu Kaisen you have seen the hand signs. Here they appear as what they actually are — a real magical-meditative practice with roots in Shugendo, Shinto, esoteric Buddhism, and shamanic Daoism.
What you will not find here
Mark does not teach Kuji Kiri syllables, mudras, or breath sequences online. The transmission of these practices happens only in live initiation — in the presence of teacher and student. This is the only way the lineage stays alive.
What you will find online: the historical and philosophical foundation, the lived experience, the path to deeper engagement.