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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 terminology included may relate to prehistoric art of the Jomon and Yayoi periods, Japanese Buddhist art, nihonga techniques using sumi and other pigments and dyes, various artisan crafts such as lacquerware techniques, katana and swordmaking, temple, shrine, and castle architecture, carpentry terms, words relating to kimono making industry ...
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 ...
Tadashi Maeyama (前山忠, Maeyama Tadashi, born 1944) [1] [2] is a Japanese artist. In 1967, he co-founded the art collective GUN with fellow artist Michio Horikawa. Together with Horikawa, Maeyama were GUN's leading members. [3] Maeyama currently lives and works in Niigata, Japan.
The technique, while also being used on firearms, has a long history in Japan, where it was used to decorate katana fittings, particularly tsuba.Known as zougan (象嵌) in Japanese, it has developed its own subset of terms to describe the particular patterns, although "shippou-zougan" is an enamelling technique which most Westerners would consider closer to champlevé.
Gun fu, a portmanteau of gun and kung fu (also known as gun kata, bullet ballet, gymnastic gunplay or bullet arts), [1] is a style of sophisticated close-quarters gunfight resembling a martial arts combat that combines firearms with hand-to-hand combat and traditional melee weapons in an approximately 50/50 ratio.
Kobudō (古武道, 'old martial arts') is a collective term for Japanese traditional techniques for the use of armour, blades, firearms, and techniques related to combat and horse riding. The kanji 古流武術 (old-school martial arts) and 古武術 (old martial arts) are other ways of writing it.