sentences:  Before, in 1955, Gosho Motoharu had received "Menkyo kaiden", the license of total transmission in Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū and Sekiguchi-ryū, the two schools that Aoki Kikuo was headmaster.Aoki Kikuo died in 1967.In the following years, the two masters continued representing the Niten Ichi-ryū in Japan.