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Ko-ryū: Foundation; Founder: Matsumoto (Sugimoto) Bizen-no-Kami Naokatsu (松本 備前守 尚勝) Date founded: c. 1570: Period founded: Late Muromachi period (1336–1573) Location founded: Kashima (鹿嶋市), Japan (日本) Current information; Current headmaster: Various lineages are still extant and taught: Arts taught; Art: Description ...
Up until the mid-19th century there seems to have been no known name for the tradition, it simply being referred to as "8 longsword and 4 short sword forms". The tradition came to be known as Shintō-ryū kenjutsu in the mid-19th century [ 2 ] by research made into the history of SMR by the SMR-practitioner Umezaki Chukichi.
Waki-gamae is also known as the Kamae of Metal (金の構, kin-no-kamae) in the five elements classification and the Light Stance (陽の構, yō-no-kamae) in the Ittō-ryū teachings. [1] Shidachi uses this stance in Kendo kata number 4 in response to uchidachi's hassō. It is also used in Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū's kata. [2]
Image credits: historymemeshq American history writer and author of Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund, Arnie Bernstein, also agrees that comedy and ...
Jigen-ryū (示現流 lit: revealed reality style) is a traditional school 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]
The swords are still divided into seven types: middle stance (chūdan-no-kamae), upper stance (jōdan-no-kamae), lower stance (gedan-no-kamae), side stance (waki-gamae), single stance (one-handed), draw stance (fencing/battōjutsu), and ninja stance. The player can obtain the "dual wielding" ability after earning a certain number of Samurai Points.
Hassō-no-kamae (八相（八双）の構, "all (eight) directions"), frequently shortened simply to hassō and occasionally called hassō-gamae, is one of the five stances in kendo: jōdan, chūdan, gedan, hassō, and waki. It is an offensive stance, named for one's ability to respond to a situation in any direction.
Jamie Wilkinson (right) and Kenyatta Cheese at ROFLCon II, 2010. Know Your Meme was created in December 2007 as a series of videos which were part of the vlog Rocketboom.It was founded by employees Kenyatta Cheese, Elspeth Rountree and Jamie Wilkinson, and Rocketboom CEO Andrew Baron in their spare time, when host Joanne Colan could not finish the current season of Rocketboom. [3]