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The following is a list of styles or schools in Japanese martial arts. For historical schools, see List of koryū schools of martial arts. Aikido; Araki-ryū ...
Japanese martial arts. Japanese martial arts refers to the variety of martial arts native to the country of Japan. At least three Japanese terms (budō, bujutsu, and bugei) are used interchangeably with the English phrase Japanese martial arts. The usage of the term budō (武道) to mean martial arts is a modern one: historically the term ...
Japanese name. Description. Kenjutsu. Sword art. Shinkage-ryū (新陰流) meaning "new shadow school", is a traditional school (koryu) of Japanese martial arts, founded by Kamiizumi Ise-no-Kami Fujiwara-no-Hidetsuna, later Kamiizumi Ise-no-Kami Nobutsuna [1] (上泉 伊勢守 信綱, 1508–1578) in the mid-sixteenth century. Shinkage-ryū is ...
Modern schools of ninjutsu are schools which offer instruction in martial arts. To a larger or smaller degree, the curriculum is derived from the practice of ninjutsu, the arts of the Shinobi; covert agents of feudal Japan. One of the earliest modern schools to be established was the Bujinkan Organization in 1972 by martial artist Masaaki ...
Jigen-ryū. Jigen-ryū (示現流 lit: revealed reality style) is a traditional school (koryū) of Japanese martial arts founded in the late 16th century by Tōgō Chūi (1560–1643), a.k.a. Tōgō Shigekata, in Satsuma Province, now Kagoshima prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. [1] It focuses mainly on the art of swordsmanship. Jigen-ryū is known for ...
The school was originally developed by Ogasawara Nagakiyo during the Kamakura period (1185–1333). It specialised in horsemanship (bajutsu), archery (kyujutsu), mounted archery (yabusame) and etiquette, with an emphasis on ceremonial and ritual practice. [1][2] Nagakiyo was the first to be called Ogasawara after his own village and was from ...
Kenjutsu (剣術) is an umbrella term for all (ko-budō) schools of Japanese swordsmanship, in particular those that predate the Meiji Restoration. Some modern styles of kendo and iaido that were established in the 20th century also included modern forms of kenjutsu in their curriculum. [1] Kenjutsu, which originated with the samurai class of ...
Shinden Fudo-ryū. Shinden Fudo-ryū (Immovable Heart School) was a school of Japanese martial arts. Founded in around 1113 AD by Izumo Kanja Yoshiteru, Shinden Fudō ryū is one of the oldest styles of Jujutsu. It focuses on working with one's natural surroundings, and as such most training takes place outside using natural objects as training ...