Martial Arts and Ways

Danish Traditional Kendo Federation

To Preserve the Classical Martial Ways of Kendo

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

Form	Date of Origin	Major Weapons	Training Method	Organization	License/Ranking System
Classical Martial Arts (ko-bujutsu)	Prior 1603	• Katana • Bokken	• Kata	Ryu	Menkyo- kaiden (license system)
Classical Martial Ways (traditional budo) Kenjutsu/Kendo "Transitional form" Kendo/shinai-geiko/gekken	1603-1868 About 1750-1868	• Katana • Bokken • Katana • Bokken • Shinai	• Kata • Kata • Shinai- geiko	Ryu Ryu	Menkyo- kaiden (license system)
Modern Martial Arts (shin-bujutsu) Military Swordsmanship	About post 1868	• Katana	• Kata	Japanese Goverment	___
Modern Martial Ways (shin-budo) Modern kendo	About post 1868 1895/1912	• Shinai • Shinai	• Shinai- geiko • Shinai- geiko	Renmei	Dan (ranking system, created for modern kendo in 1917)

    References
    Dann, Jeffrey. Kendo in Japanese Martial Culture.
    Ph.D. thesis. University of Washington. 1978; pp. 19-23.

Draeger, Donn F. Classical Budo.
Weatherhill. 1973; pp. 36, 80.

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