Nihon No Kenjutsu

[Hisham]

What were they using at the 2:30 min of the clip, is that somekind of specific koryu shinay or is it a boken?

Thanks again for taking the time to update the page.

[Hisham]

Sorry for the double post but i couldn't correct a small error in this sentence:" Thanks again for taking the time to update the page."
Thanks again for taking the time to update the thread.

[ZealUK]

Hi,

Those are fukuro shinai. Yagyu Shinkage Ryu, Kashima Shinryu and Kashima Jikishinkage Ryu use them among others.

[ScottUK]

Any ideas to why the padded tsuba?

[ZealUK]

Not sure about the tsuba. Maybe because it matches?

I'll have a look at the pictures in the article after the next time I get some sleep.

[Kenshi]

Any ideas to why the padded tsuba?

no idea about kashima shinryu, but ive been reduced to bleeding knuckles when using a fukuro shinai (as well as bruised legs and arms)... so that might be an indication why.

of-course, maybe its to make it more sword like, heh heh.

ive seen shinai and bukuto with bigger padded tsubas than these...

[Saitama Steve]

Padded tsuba allow for practice in tsuba zeriai without breaking each other's fingers. This is why you never put your right index finger around the fuchigane. A lot of schools do this.

Kashima Shin-ryu do quite a bit of grappling in their techniques that involve tsubazeriai. If they used large wooden tsuba ala Itto-ryu variants or Muhi Muteki-ryu, practicioners fingers would be snapping like twigs every keiko.

[ScottUK]

Aha cheers...