The last paper I did in university on the topic was back in 2001 and is hopelessly outdated now. I have been working (very) slowly on a book using the major lines of transmission coming from Katayama...
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The last paper I did in university on the topic was back in 2001 and is hopelessly outdated now. I have been working (very) slowly on a book using the major lines of transmission coming from Katayama...
My now retired teacher was very intense on the idea that Katayama Hoki-no-kami was not a student of Hayashizaki Jinsuke and looking at his own research I can see why he and several other teacher feel...
It is not much different over here in Japan. Any discussions I have heard even vaguely in the ballpark on this sort of material within renmei iai have been random comments made after keiko at the bar...
Hence the "and other groups". :wink:
Most flavors of the Muso family of arts seem to follow that series of movements with that rationale. I only wanted to point out that it is not a universal thing....
This logic is the standard given by the ZNKR and other groups, but it is not universal across Japanese swordsmanship. Hoki-ryu for example moves both hands together in all their reiho and they are...
This is one of those points where the ZNKR "manual" doesn't clearly state what to do and thus is open to a certain degree of interpretation depending on the sensei and your level. The manual...
There are a few quirks in there, but the gist of the original Japanese is that with the positions swapped in the obi from the standard way, if an enemy appears you just pull the wakizashi up into...
Just for the sake of clarity, in Hoki-ryu we just let it dangle in a manner similar to how Yamada does it, which is what I meant by not tying it. ZNIR based MJER just loops it into the hakama himo...
Hoki ryu does NOT tie the sageo at all and uses it in a similar fashion to Katori Shinto ryu or Kumamoto Sekiguchi ryu. Some modern practitioners may tie it due to renmei affiliations but that is...
As I stated earlier, while the omote Okkakenuki is usually quoted as the influence on Kesagiri, the actual technical influence to actual Hoki-ryu pracitioners who have seen most of the ryu will...
I would recommend contacting Tozando directly as they have a lot of things that aren't on their webpage available. A couple years back I dropped by their store and asked if they happened to have any...
Regarding the Hoki-ryu angle, the kata that serves as an influence to Kesagiri is one that hasn't been made "public" so to speak. Okkake-nuki is the one most people assume was the influence, but...
The uploaded video comes from this DVD, should anyone feel like supporting the company that actually made it.
You should at least keep in mind that many traditional minded sensei in Japan find the idea of propping your weapon up against the wall equally as offensive. In my time here I have seen a number of...
Might just be that eventually they just level out rather than get left behind?
Not surprising since I can get myself back to Kevin Bacon in 4.
Just this year another woman passed 8-Dan in iai, so there are a handful in iai and jo, no idea regarding kendo though.
Funny, this description sounds pretty much exactly like the method of cutting my own teacher has been having us work on after pow-wowing with some ZNKR bigwigs (some of whom I know are from MSR...
All it is is a list of names of people who demonstrated or helped participate in an offering at the shrine at that particular time. There are hundreds of these there (although not always so big) and...
If anyone is up here and decides to swing by the Hayashizaki shrine, be aware that the shrine building itself is almost always closed. The building next to it, which houses many pictures and plaques...
There are such events for higher ranking members and such (my own teacher attends them regularly), but attendance is purely voluntary, mostly aimed at those in teaching positions and almost always...
The ZNKR doesn't roll out with official adjustments all that often, but regardless these points are still being taught over here. Indeed talking with some locals recently, these points still haven't...
He came up a couple years back and Meik Skoss replied that he had met him while he was still in Japan and briefly mentioned what he knew of his training history (check here). Years back I purchased...
ZNIR Maegiri? DNIR Maegiri?
Probably that is part of it, although you can customize iaito pretty extensively too.
Another thing with custom blades is that if you do use the sword regularly for years on end, eventually you...