Vile
17th April 2002, 11:03
Most of us have propably heard the term Bugei Ju-happan, but where does this term actually come from?
The concept seems to be "the 18 arts considered essential to bushi", but where this idea came from and is there indeed any "generally" accepted Bugei Ju-happan? I understand that different ryuha naturally had their own curricula and emphasized different arts more than others and I believe saying anything too general about all the ryuha is propably misinformation, but yet I'd like to know in what degree do different sources agree on the 18 arts.
What I'd really like to know is the historical (pre-meiji) documents that refer to the concept of Bugei Ju-happan and what they say about it. If there are historical documents on the subject, how old are the earliest ones that survive? I got a gut feeling this might be an Edo-period thing, but my gut has known to be wrong many times :)
The concept seems to be "the 18 arts considered essential to bushi", but where this idea came from and is there indeed any "generally" accepted Bugei Ju-happan? I understand that different ryuha naturally had their own curricula and emphasized different arts more than others and I believe saying anything too general about all the ryuha is propably misinformation, but yet I'd like to know in what degree do different sources agree on the 18 arts.
What I'd really like to know is the historical (pre-meiji) documents that refer to the concept of Bugei Ju-happan and what they say about it. If there are historical documents on the subject, how old are the earliest ones that survive? I got a gut feeling this might be an Edo-period thing, but my gut has known to be wrong many times :)