Danish Traditional Kendo Federation |
COUNSELING |
In accordance with this, the Danish Traditional Kendo Federation has no preferences in relation to a specific tradition. The Federation accepts and organize different traditions prior the Meiji Restoration (1886). EDUCATION & THE MENKYO SYSTEM As part of the Federation's educational planning the Danish Traditional Kendo Federation registers all practitioners who are organized in the Federation. Over time students can be trained as teacher with the purpose of establishing and maintaining their own group within the discipline concerned. In connection with the education the Danish Traditional Kendo Federation supports the use of the classical menkyō 免許 (license) system.1 The Federation considers it substantial that the students parallel with the practical training obtain a historical knowledge through literary studies of the samurai traditions. LITERATURE Danish Traditional Kendo Federation welcomes requests from the public concerning literature about history of Japan, warfare and traditions in relation to the period of time prior 1868. NOTE 1. Historical menkyo is a conservative teacher's license system from the period of time prior 1868. The purpose of menkyo is to educate exponents in order to preserve the originally traditions. The menkyo system is divided up into very few levels where the last license typical is acquired after thirty years experience. |
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COUNSELING IN RELATION TO AFFILIATION The Federation carries out counseling and answer questions concerning the classical disciplines which the Federation organizes. IDENTIFICATION OF GROUPS The classical disciplines blow are represented in Danish Traditional Kendo Federation.
STRUCTURE The common feature for the groups under the Danish Traditional Kendo Federation is that the practice of the respectively groups is based on discipline and respect. In Edo period the budō grown through the interaction between two complementary types of social organizations. The core of martial ways was the local autonomous units represented by the individual dōjō, its headmaster, and its tradition (ryū) or style (kenpū). On the other hand, central bureaucratic institutions representing the larger social and political structure tended to standardize the disciplines, to define the formally role of the budo education according to the socio-political goals of the shogunate. These central bureaucratic structures were represented by the domain schools in the Edo period. |
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