An-shu Stephen K. Hayes has spent his entire adult life in the pursuit of perfection through the study of the Asian martial arts and spiritual traditions, living and traveling throughout North America, Japan, Europe, the Arctic, China, Tibet, Nepal, and India.
He began his martial arts career in Ohio studying karate as a teenager in the 1960s.
Stephen K. Hayes, Rumiko Hayes, Masaaki Hatsumi in Japan 1983 Awarded extremely rare honor of ju-dan 10th degree Black Belt by Bujinkan Dojo Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi of Chiba-ken, Japan, in 1993.
Elected to the prestigious Black Belt Hall of Fame in 1985, and Martial Arts History Museum Hall of Fame in 2004, for his pioneering introduction of the Japanese ninja martial arts to the Western world.
Stephen K. Hayes founded the martial art of To-Shin Do in 1997, 30 years after beginning formal training in the martial arts; he is known as An-shu, founder-director of the Kasumi-An.
