Late response to Marius, but Arakawa, am intensely private man, would likely have loathed these suggestions. He only officially authorized two shibu which are still active to various degrees. There...
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Late response to Marius, but Arakawa, am intensely private man, would likely have loathed these suggestions. He only officially authorized two shibu which are still active to various degrees. There...
My guess... some teachers, even over here, just have to have an answer for a student’s question and when they don’t have an answer, will make something up on the spot if it seems plausible at first...
In Katayama-ryu we had a series of restraining ties involving the sageo. The major difference between what we did and what you normally hear thrown around is that we would tie them up using their...
There are other people better qualified to discuss the specifics in detail, but I would say it is very different from Katori Shinto-ryu- Warrior Tradition. Warrior Tradition serves as kind of an...
Sword registration is carried out at the prefectural level and changes in ownership are registered by basically sending a postcard to the ministry of education office in the prefecture the sword was...
While I am not the original poster, I would suspect he meant the 4 sets of solo waza and not just four waza. 7 Toho waza makes me think of the DNIR which broke off from the ZNIR and then added a...
I am typing from memory here so don't take this as 100% accurate but my understanding is that when they were looking to determine the number of swords a smith could make (technically register. They...
The limits on the number of blades a smith can register are still in place. Most smiths dislike the number because they are capable to producing more (the number was determined using the production...
Without nothing anything about the OP's dojo it is hard to say, but it is possible that he is a member a different organization than the ZNKR, hence the video I posted earlier, because what he...
The teacher is a Hoki-ryu instructor who is in the ZNIR but what he is demonstrating is ZNIR's toho/seitei and not Hoki-ryu. Hoki-ryu has no horizontal draws for one.
Best,
Rennis
Daniel,
Out of curiosity is your first kata performed like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKLRr2cuaLo
Best regards,
Rennis
I figured that was the case, but it is a bit out of my usual territory if you will. Thanks and PM sent.
I was wondering if anyone here might be able to be of any assistance here. I have a student who has recently relocated from Japan to Brazil for a few years because of his job. He was unable to bring...
I remember coming across one of his books on aiki several years ago. From what I recall he emphasized the Sagawa/Daito-ryu connection more than aikido at the time, but this was back around 2008 or...
Usually this sort of thing is a guideline and not a hard rule. There is no way prove you can even be here for 10 years unless you have permanent residency (in which case you have probably been here...
This is true enough now for someone making "public" claims. I have found that, in my experience at least, most of the original source material you will find concerning these types of arts will...
While I cannot say anything in regards to the Ono and Jubei story, I will say that my work with original Japanese source materials generally leads me to the opposite conclusion. In general if there...
Just a couple of minor additions here. First, Esaka is no longer a member of the ZNIR, having left early last year, I believe it was, and has formed his own organization. If memory serves me...
Keep in mind that Nanba is also a common term, such as in Nanba Ippo-ryu. I often see people getting Nanba and Nanban confused, when they are completely different words written with completely...
The "official line" and the case by case examples of what actually happen can be different, but to use your example as one case....
The guy doing ZNKR kendo and ZNIR iaido is most likely ok as...
It is a ZNKR event. Simply put, the federations in Japan just do not mix and most have rules that if you are in one, you cannot be in another. The reason that the vast majority of practitioners are...
I would say that there could be a strong argument that a fairly large number of those listed are not even technically "chiburi".
While I won't speak for other ryu, I will add that "27....
Swing up the Hayashizaki iai Jinja as it is in my general neighborhood!
Back in my university days in one of the Japanese religion classes the whole issue of the left handed taboo was discussed at one point. The short version is basically due to all the imported beliefs...
In my opinion Invisible Armor is by far the weakest of the books he has written to date. With that said, the day after I finished reading it, I received some copies of a couple of new densho and some...