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Kenjutsu (剣術) is an
umbrella term for all (ko-budō)
schools of ****anese swordsmanship, in
particular those that
predate the
Meiji Restoration. Some modern...
- or 'way of the sword') is a
modern ****anese
martial art,
descended from
kenjutsu (one of the old ****anese
martial arts, swordsmanship), that uses bamboo...
- the
early 1800s. The
origin of Ōishi Shinkage-ryū lies in Aizu Kage-ryū
kenjutsu (swordsmanship),
which was
founded by Aizu Ikōsai Hisatada. Aizu Kage-ryū...
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Kasumi Shintō-ryū
Kenjutsu (霞神道流剣術), or (Shintō-ryū
Kenjutsu), is one of the
names used to
describe the
collection of sword-versus-sword training-forms...
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Sasaki Rui (佐々木 累) was a ****anese swordwoman, Onna-musha and
kenjutsu expert of the
early Edo
period (mid-17th century). She was
known as the "Strangely...
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traditional school (koryū) of the ****anese
martial art of
swordsmanship (
kenjutsu). The
school was
founded in the mid-16th century,
based upon
older styles...
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known as jōdan-gamae, and
frequently shortened simply to jōdan, is a
basic kenjutsu posture. (It is also
found in
naginatajutsu but is far less used due to...
- with the
oiran Yoshino Tayu [Ja].
Musashi created and
refined a two-sword
kenjutsu technique called niten'ichi (二天一, "two
heavens as one") or nitōichi (二刀一...
- The Book of Five
Rings (五輪書, Go Rin no Sho) is a text on
kenjutsu and the
martial arts in general,
written by the ****anese
swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around...
- the
captain of the
first unit of the
Shinsengumi and also
served as a
kenjutsu instructor;
later that year, he was
appointed by
Kondo Isami to be the...
