Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Zarei (bowing while kneeling) Students wearing suits, hakama and a kimono bow to the president of the school and then to the audience at the 2015 Waseda University graduation ceremony in Japan. In modern-day Japan , bowing is a fundamental part of social etiquette which is both derivative and representative of Japanese culture , emphasizing ...
The bow string, when properly released, will travel around the bow hand, coming to rest on the outside of the arm. However, on rare occasions a bow hand glove, called an oshidegake (押手弽), is used, which serves to protect the left thumb from injury from the arrow and fletching. A forearm protector can also be worn, primarily by beginners ...
Kendo practice at an agricultural school c.1920. The person at right in the foreground is in chūdan-no-kamae, the person at left is in jōdan-no-kamae.. Chūdan-no-kamae (中段の構え:ちゅうだんのかまえ), sometimes shortened to Chūdan-gamae or simply Chūdan, is a basic weapon stance in many Japanese martial arts.
Kendo in the early Meiji period (1873) Takasugi Shinsaku, late Edo period kendo practitioner. Swordsmen in Japan established schools of kenjutsu [4] (the ancestor of kendo). These continued for centuries and form the basis of kendo practice today. [5] Formal kendo exercises known as kata were developed several centuries ago as kenjutsu practice ...
Kendo training at an agricultural school in Japan around 1920. Kendo (剣道:けんどう, kendō), meaning the "way of the sword", is based on Japanese sword-fighting. [citation needed] It is an evolution of the art of kenjutsu, and its exercises and practice are descended from several particular schools of swordsmanship.
Kyūjutsu (弓術) ("art of archery") is the traditional Japanese martial art of wielding a bow as practiced by the samurai class of feudal Japan. [1] Although the samurai are perhaps best known for their swordsmanship with a katana (), kyūjutsu was actually considered a more vital skill for a significant portion of Japanese history.
Kendo is practiced worldwide. Kendo originated in Japan, but is today practiced worldwide.. The size and depth of kendo skill varies widely from country to country. Some countries have few kendo practitioners, while Japan has several million.
Worshiping manners, 2016, Nagoya, Japan. The etiquette of Two bows, two claps, one bow is explained in both Japanese and English. An example of prewar two-beat, one-beat worship. The upper row is the second worship, the middle row is the second clap, and the lower row is the first worship.