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After seeing a samurai movie featuring a dual-wielding fighter as a child, she has always wanted to fight with two swords, and planned to compete in two-sword style as adult. As such, she is a strong opponent capable of using the two-sword style of kendo, despite high school competitions prohibiting the use of the two sword technique.
The series tells the story of Toraji Ishida, a luckless high school Kendo instructor, who is challenged by his former upperclassman, also a kendo instructor, to a competition between their female students. The bet inspires Toraji to gather and train a team of five girls, where he meets Tamaki Kawazoe, a gifted young female kendo practitioner.
Musashi no Ken (六三四の剣, lit. ' Musashi's Sword ') is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Motoka Murakami that focuses on kendo.It was serialized by Shogakukan in Weekly Shōnen Sunday between April 1981 and October 1985. [3]
The TV series of the same name is an adaptation of the movie. HAIKU (62A: Matsuo ... KENDO (8D: Japanese martial art that translates to "way of the sword") KENDO is a Japanese martial art that ...
The Pirates of the Caribbean features characters dual wielding two swords including Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, and Elizabeth Swann. The martial arts movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon features Michelle Yeoh as Yu Shu Lien dual wielding with a dao sword which split to two, and then with two hook swords.
Hyohō Niten Ichi-ryū (兵法 二天 一流), which can be loosely translated as "the school of the strategy of two heavens as one", is a koryū (ancient school), transmitting a style of classical Japanese swordsmanship conceived by Miyamoto Musashi.
Shinai is written with the kanji 竹刀, meaning "bamboo sword", and is an irregular kanji reading. In kendo, it is most common to use a single shinai, sometimes called ittō (一刀) style. Some kendōka choose to use two shinai.
The Sword (剣, Ken) is a 1964 Japanese film directed by Kenji Misumi. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] From a screenplay by Kazuro Funabashi, based upon the short story Ken ( Sword ) by Yukio Mishima . [ 3 ] [ 4 ]