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Draken50, by tanto being worn at the back, are you referring to metezashi?

右手差/metezashi are worn in the ryu ha I train in too, but we don't usually talk about them.

Tim,

I'd have to see the techniques in the book to make a proper comment, but it doesn't sound characteristic of Takenouchi-ryu or Sosuishi-ryu (an early offshoot of Takenouchi-ryu) we usually...

Sosuishi-ryu doesn't tie the sageo to the hakama himo either.

Different koryu ryuha have different doctrines and methods for daisho sashigata.

Tennen Rishin-ryu put the wakizashi in the first layer of the kaku-obi, while the uchigatana is thrust into the...

Nope, I don't do aikido. I did some as a teenager before moving to Japan, but haven't trained in any for almost two decades.

I just do koryu these days.

47 things I do? Where'd you get that from? ;)

The two ryuha I do are sogo-bujutsu, so they have multiple disciplines such as iai, kenjutsu, sojutsu, jujutsu etc. For Araki-ryu, in addition to a...

The antibiotics dosage.

You hit the nail on the head there Scott.

I saw this a few times with my late Araki-ryu teacher; Sweet, smiling little old Japanese grandpa with a trilby - put him in a keikogi & hakama with a...

Edo-den Sosuishi-ryu. That's the Kosonkai dojo run by Ito Manabu. Their jujutsu is a new addition to their curriculum taken from the Fukuoka line.

I heartily concur wih Chewbacca

As Kent hinted, there definately are koryu that do not have jo-ha-kyu.

There are some gross over generalizations on this thread regarding koryu.

It concerns history and Japanese culture; It has a lot to do with the Japanese Empire's Haitorei legislation in 1876, just after the Meiji restoration. Men from the former bushi caste, weren't...

In addition, I have to say that Seitei never did click even at the beginning. One of my iai teachers was a 9th dan in ZNKR iai and absolutely hated seitei with a vengeance.

His was a mindset of;...

Yes, Araki-ryu have several of these scenarios in their kata, as does Taisha-ryu and Sosuishi-ryu in Kyushu.

As for ryuha "clicking" with you, the first koryu I trained in was Araki-ryu and it...

There were kendo kata performed at embu for the Nihon Kobudo Kyokai in the early 1990's. The last time I saw it performed was at the Riverside Sports centre embu in 2005 for the Nihon Kobudo...

Please, please, please don't ever repeat or pronounce that word as you have written it in Japan. It will earn you a severe clout around the earhole.

I understand it may be a typo, but for God's...

There are 12 solo kata and 5 remaining paired kata. The nature of the kata, I cannot really get into.

Those flickr photos are of the Araki-ryu group I study.

The person demonstrating tandoku nagamakijutsu is Yamanouchi sensei.

That's correct, the term soke comes from the merchant class and was used for family members or people who would be adopted into the family and inherit the family's merchant conglomerate. It became...

No, eaten my fair shar though.

You have changed your line of argument again.

Yes, you read right, Miyamoto-ryu.

Watch and then cry your eyes out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akKN6lOhp4k

And for those of you that do some yawara or aikido, watch as they rip off...

OK, so schools such as Tennen Rishin-ryu, Hokushin Itto-ryu etc, which were used in real military actions during the late edo-jidai & early Meiji-jidai fall into that category? What of those ryuha...

Are you referring to kumitachi or tandoku iai keiko here?

If it's kumitachi, as I said before, naturally bokuto, fukuro-jinai and habikito were and are used.

If it's tandoku keiko, shinken...

I forgot to mention that Yagyu Shinkage-ryu (Shunpukan dojo) train with shinken in their kenjutsu kata after a high level of training has been attained. This goes back a long way.





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