• school. Today, the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū remains one of the most renowned schools of Japanese swordsmanship. Its name roughly means Yagyū New Shadow School...
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    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...
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    Shingan-ryū, it was later renamed Yagyū Shingan-ryū, due to the influence of Yagyu Tajima no Kami Munenori's Yagyū Shinkage-ryū. Yagyū Shingan-ryū was created...
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    the founder of the Yagyū Shingan-ryū, was a disciple of Yagyū Munenori and received gokui (secret teachings) of the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū from him. In about...
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    Kage-ryū, and thus named his school Shinkage-ryū (New Kage-ryū). In his book Shōden Shinkage-ryū, Yagyū Toshinaga surmised that Kamiizumi created Shinkage-ryū...
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    Kenjutsu (category Ko-ryū bujutsu)
    Jikiden Eishin ryu Suiō-ryū Samurai Shindo Munen-ryu Tatsumi-ryū Tennen Rishin Ryu Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū Yagyū Shinkage-ryū Classical Warrior...
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  • Yagyū Sekishūsai Taira-no-Munetoshi (柳生石舟斎平宗厳 1529 – May 25, 1606) was a samurai in Japan's Sengoku period famous for mastering the Shinkage-ryū school...
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  • Yagyū Hyōgonosuke (柳生 兵庫助, 1579–1650) or — Toshitoshi (利厳) was the founder of the Owari mainline of the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū style of swordsmanship in the...
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  • both the second and third shōguns, along with Yagyū Munenori of the rival school the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, Tadaaki was able to continue to give his art...
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    heads of one of Japan's greatest schools of swordsmanship, Yagyū Shinkage-ryū. The Yagyū were also Kenjutsu teachers to the Tokugawa shōguns and descendant...
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    many famous schools, such as Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū, Ittō-ryū, Kukishin-ryū, and Togakure-ryū. A bo-shuriken is a throwing...
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  • Yagyū Jūbē Mitsuyoshi (柳生 十兵衞 三厳, Yagyū Jūbē Mitsuyoshi, 1607 – April 21, 1650) was one of the most famous and romanticized of the samurai in Japan's...
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  • Yoshin-ryū, Takenouchi-ryū, Sekiguchi-ryū, Kito-ryū and Shibukawa-ryū, as well as the armed styles of Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, Hōzōin-ryū, Otsubo-ryū and Yamada-ryū...
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    Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū (天真正伝香取神道流) is one of the oldest extant Japanese martial arts and an exemplar of bujutsu. It was founded by Iizasa Ienao...
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    Iaijutsu (category Ko-ryū bujutsu)
    20th century. Yagyū Seigo-ryu—Founded by Nagaoka Torei Fusashige in the 17th century. Yagyū Shinkage-ryū—From the Shinkage-ryū of Yagyū Muneyoshi, who...
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  • List of koryū schools of martial arts (category Ko-ryū bujutsu)
    Sekiguchi-ryu Tamiya-ryū (Kuroda) Tamiya-ryū (Tsumaki) Yagyū Shinkage-ryū Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū Ittō-ryū Hokushin Ittō-ryū Ittō Shoden Muto-ryū Kogen Ittō-ryū Mizoguchi-ha...
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    also used in other schools, for example, Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, Shin musō Hayashizaki-ryū and Iaidō, only Enshin-ryū seems to have used it to improve the drawing...
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  • Shinkage-ryū (新陰流), which would be renamed Yagyū Shinkage-ryū by Nobutsuna's equally famous student Yagyū Sekishūsai Muneyoshi. Today, the Kage-ryū of...
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    Hidetada. His childhood name was Mitsuchiyo (光千代). Having studied the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū under Ujii Yashiro, Tadatoshi wanted his guest, Musashi, to fight...
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    that day. The Yagyū clan, sword instructors to the Tokugawa shōguns, included tessenjutsu in their martial arts school, the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū. Edo period...
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    episode TV production entitled Yagyū Shinkage-ryū which aired in 1982. His final appearance as Munenori was in 4 of 5 Yagyu Bugeicho TV movies that aired...
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    koryū martial art Yagyū Shingan-ryū, known sometimes as Yagyū Shingan-ryū Taijutsu. Araki Mataemon studied Yagyū Shinkage-ryū under Yagyū Munenori and later...
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  • his youth as 'Yuzen'. He studied with Yagyū Munetoshi (柳生石舟斎平宗厳 1529 – May 25, 1606) of the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū (柳生新陰流) of Kenjutsu (剣術). Fukuno was a...
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    Kamae of Heaven (天の構え, ten-no-kamae) in Yagyū Shinkage-ryū and the Kamae of Fire (火の構え, hi-no-kamae) in Shinkage-ryū. Jōdan-no-kamae is a guard stance in...
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    meeting between Kamiizumi Nobutsuna and Yagyū Munetoshi, being the catalyst for the creation of Yagyū Shinkage-ryū. It is said that one evening, on seeing...
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  • from the Saga Genji. Yagyū clan (柳生氏) – descended from Sugawara clan; famous for their swordsmanship called Yagyū Shinkage-ryū. Yamana clan (山名氏) – cadet...
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    martial arts) are other ways of writing it. The general umbrella term ko-ryū (古流, "old school") is also used to describe these ancient arts. Kobudō (古武道)...
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    thrust). It is called the Kamae of Earth (地の構え, chi-no-kamae) in Yagyū Shinkage-ryū. The German school of fencing refers to this stance as alber "Fool's...
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  • founding the Yagyu Shingan ryu Takenaga Hayato had mastered the Shindō-ryū (神道流), Shinkage-ryu - Divine Shadow (神影流), Shuza-ryū (首座流), Toda-ryū (戸田流) and...
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  • modified to conform to the five forms of sword-drawing as taught in the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū. By devising these eleven basic techniques, he came back in the good...
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