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CLASSIFICATION OF JAPANESE MARTIAL ARTS AND WAYS IN RELATIONSHIP
TO SWORDSMANSHIP PRIOR 1912

 

Type

Date of Origin

Training
Weapons

Training
Method

Social
Organization

Education
System

Classical Martial Arts
(ko-bujutsu)

Prior 1603
 

About 1563

Katana
Bokutō

Katana
Bokutō
Fukuro-shinai

Kata
 

Kata

Ryū
 

Ryū

 

Menkyo-
kaiden
(license system)

Classical Martial Ways
(ko-budō)
Kenjutsu/Kendō

"Transitional form"
Kenjutsu/Kendō/Shinai-geiko

1603-1868

 

About 1750-1868

Katana
Bokutō
Fukuro-shinai

Katana
Bokutō
Shinai

Kata

 

Kata
Shinai-geiko

Ryū

 

Ryū

 

Menkyo-
kaiden
(license system)

 

Modern Martial Arts
(shin-bujutsu)
Military Swordsmanship

About post 1868

Katana

Kata

Japanese
Goverment

_

Modern Martial Ways
(shin-budō)


Modern kendō

About post 1868



1912

(Bokutō)
Shinai

(Kata)
Shinai-geiko


(Kata)
Shinai-geiko





Renmei




Dan
(ranking system,
created for kendo
in 1917)

The table is based on the following sources:



 
Dann, Jeffrey. Kendo in Japanese Martial Culture. Ph.D. thesis. University of Washington. 1978; pp. 19-23.
Draeger, Donn F. Classical Budo. Weatherhill. 1973; p. 80.
Friday, Karl F. Legacies of the Sword. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu; 1997; pp. 119n, 137.