A school of the gun
Inatomi-ryū (稲富流) is a Japanese school of gunnery, one of the traditions that formed around the matchlock firearm after its arrival in the sixteenth century. Where the sword schools codified the cut, the gunnery schools codified the loading, aiming and disciplined firing of the arquebus, and Inatomi-ryū became among the best known of them.
Inatomi Sukenao
The school was founded by Inatomi Sukenao, a warrior and gunnery expert whose life spanned the wars of unification and the opening of the Edo period, and who is also remembered under his later religious name of Ichimu. He set down his teaching in a treatise of the art, and his reputation as a marksman carried the school's name well beyond his own service.
To make the firing of the gun as exact and repeatable as a drawn form.
A documented but unbroken chapter
Inatomi-ryū is securely documented as a historical school of gunnery, but Ryūpedia records no verified surviving independent line and so does not name a modern steward. It is remembered here as one of the codified gunnery traditions through which the firearm took its place among the martial arts of Japan.