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Hōjutsu (砲術) / Teppojutsu (鉄砲術), the art of gunnery, is the martial art of Japan dedicated to Japanese black powder firearm usage. Hōjutsu is still practiced today, often with antique matchlock firearms such as the tanegashima. The martial art is most common in Japan where access to historical equipment is easier for practitioners.
Japanese percussion pistol, 19th century, possibly converted from a matchlock. A few Japanese started to study and experiment with recent Western firearms from the beginning of the 19th century especially as a means to ward off visits from foreign ships, such as the incursion by the Royal Navy frigate HMS Phaeton in 1808. [20]
The Japanese language edition of Avenger!, the first book in the Way of the Tiger series, is titled Tiger Ansatsuken (タイガー暗殺拳, Taigā Ansatsuken). The character Myousai Kakouen in Ikki Tousen has been described as a "master of the assassination fist" (暗殺拳の使い手, ansatsuken no tsukaite).
This category is for jargon relating to Japanese art (visual arts), especially terms in the original Japanese, which may be used in print in any English-language literature on Japanese art. Many terms are idiosyncratic and may not be accurately represented by a succinct English equivalent notation (rough translation).
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During the Meiji period, Japanese bayonet fighting techniques were consolidated into a system named jūkenjutsu, [7] and taught at the Toyama military academy in Tokyo. [7] Morihei Ueshiba , founder of Aikido , trained in jūkenjutsu and incorporated some of this art's techniques into his own interpretation of the use of the wooden staff or jō ...
One type of metsubushi was used by police for blowing powdered pepper or dust into the eyes of a suspect. It is described as being a lacquer or brass box with a wide mouthpiece for blowing on, and a hole or pipe on the other end for directing the powder into the eyes of the person being captured. [1]
Fūrinkazan (Japanese: 風林火山, "Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain") is a popularized version of the battle standard used by the Sengoku period daimyō Takeda Shingen. The banner quoted four phrases from Sun Tzu's The Art of War: "as swift as wind, as gentle as forest, as fierce as fire, as unshakable as mountain."