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STRATEGY
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 the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) the budo 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 dojo, its headmaster, and its tradition (ryu) or style (kenpu). 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 Tokugawa period. In accordance with this, the Danish Traditional Kendo Federation has no preferences in relation to a specific tradition. In the light of historical circumstances the Federation organizes different Kendo traditions prior to the Meiji Restoration (1868).
Education
The purpose of the teaching is to maintain the traditions of Kendo prior to 1868, and educate the students in such ways that they
are capable of transmitting the traditions to the next generation. Over time the exponent can be educated as teacher in order to
establish and manage one's own Kendo group.
Furthermore the Federation considers it substantial that the student supplements the teaching with literature concerning the Japanese culture of the Tokugawa period.
Relations
Danish Traditional Kendo Federation has established international co-operation with like-minded who share the
interest of preserving the older traditions within Kendo.
In this matter Danish Traditional Kendo Federation carries out research into Kendo prior to 1868.
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