Japanese Freemasonry

[vajramukti]

Does anyone know anything? I have found a possible link from the man who brought the martial art I teach to America from Japan with Japanese freemasonry. The man was related to the Yoshida and Komatsu Clans (Shigeru Yoshida was his uncle, and Takasho Komatsu was the first worshipful master of the Tokyo Grand Lodge)

I am looking in particular for a possible masonic order in Japan that pre-dated WWII with "dragon" in it's name. I know it is not the Amur River Society (Black Dragons) or the Society of the Green Dragons.

Any help out there? I have a group of highly born, highly influential families of samurai martial traditions that went underground during and right after WWII, to emerge in the early 50s as economic and business titans, around the same time japanese freemasonry got onto it's own feet. Sounds a whole lot like the freemasons adopted a group of warrior clans, and, like the Templars, this group went from military might to economic glory.

[Frater G]

There is one book which archives Masonic history in a pretty detailed manner however it is an anti Masonic book written by a Catholic. So there you have the slant. I managed to read about half of it before I got tired of it. In it I recall something about the Japanese order. The book is Scarlet and the Beast by John Daniels.

[vajramukti]

Dec 24, 2009 12:09:52 GMT -5 Frater G said:

There is one book which archives Masonic history in a pretty detailed manner however it is an anti Masonic book written by a Catholic. So there you have the slant. I managed to read about half of it before I got tired of it. In it I recall something about the Japanese order. The book is Scarlet and the Beast by John Daniels.

Do you recall the name of the Japanese Order?

[Frater G]

Dec 24, 2009 23:42:46 GMT -5 vajramukti said:

Dec 24, 2009 12:09:52 GMT -5 Frater G said:

There is one book which archives Masonic history in a pretty detailed manner however it is an anti Masonic book written by a Catholic. So there you have the slant. I managed to read about half of it before I got tired of it. In it I recall something about the Japanese order. The book is Scarlet and the Beast by John Daniels.

Do you recall the name of the Japanese Order?

I have the book in storage. I will find it and report back what I find.

[Frater G]

I'm still trying to find the book. It's in one of my book boxes...buried in the back probably.

[Frater G]

The only thing I found was a reference to a club called the Kobe Masonic Club which was made up of several lodges in 1936. Three referenced were the Hyogo, Osake and Rising Sun Lodges.

Have you considered visiting a Masonic library?