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is a traditional (koryu
Koryu

is a Japanese language word that is used in association with the ancient Japanese martial arts. This word literally translates as ":wikt:? :wikt:?" or "traditional school." Koryu is a general term for Japanese schools of martial arts that predate the Meiji Restoration ....
) school of Japanese martial arts
Japanese martial arts

Japanese martial arts refers to the enormous variety of martial arts native to Japan. At least three Japanese terms are often used interchangeably with the English phrase "Japanese martial arts": "budo", literally meaning "martial way", , which has no perfect translation but means something like science, art, or craft of war, and ,...
 founded by Tsukahara Bokuden
Tsukahara Bokuden

Tsukahara Bokuden was a famous swordsman of the early Sengoku period. He was widely regarded as a kensei . He was the founder of a new Kashima style of fencing, and served as an instructor of Shogun Yoshiteru Ashikaga and Ise Province provincial governor Tomonori Kitabatake....
 in the Muromachi period (c.1530).

Due to its formation during the tumultuous Sengoku Jidai, a time of feudal war, the school's techniques are based on battlefield experience and revolve around finding weak points in the opponent's armor. The sword
Sword

A sword is a long, edged piece of metal, used as a cutting, thrusting, and clubbing weapon in many civilizations throughout the world. The word sword comes from the Old English language wikt:sweord, cognate to Old High German swert, Middle Dutch swaert, Old Norse sver? Old Frisian and Old Saxon swerd and Dutch langua...
 (katana
Katana

A Japanese sword, or , is one of the traditional bladed weapons of Japan. These are categorised in several types according to size and method of manufacture....
), spear
Spear

A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a sharpened head. The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with bamboo spears, or it may be of another material fastened to the shaft, such as obsidian, iron or bronze....
 (yari
Yari

is the Japanese language term for spear, or more specifically, the straight-headed spear. The martial art of wielding the yari is called sojutsu....
) and glaive
Glaive

A glaive is a polearm consisting of a single-edged blade on the end of a pole . It is similar to the Japanese naginata and the China Guan Dao....
 (naginata
Naginata

Naginata is a pole weapon that was traditionally used in Japan by members of the samurai class. It has become associated with women and in modern Japan it is studied by women more than men; whereas in Europe and Australia Naginata is practiced predominantly by men - this is however only simply a refection of the martial arts de...
) are some of the weapons used by the school.






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is a traditional (koryu
Koryu

is a Japanese language word that is used in association with the ancient Japanese martial arts. This word literally translates as ":wikt:? :wikt:?" or "traditional school." Koryu is a general term for Japanese schools of martial arts that predate the Meiji Restoration ....
) school of Japanese martial arts
Japanese martial arts

Japanese martial arts refers to the enormous variety of martial arts native to Japan. At least three Japanese terms are often used interchangeably with the English phrase "Japanese martial arts": "budo", literally meaning "martial way", , which has no perfect translation but means something like science, art, or craft of war, and ,...
 founded by Tsukahara Bokuden
Tsukahara Bokuden

Tsukahara Bokuden was a famous swordsman of the early Sengoku period. He was widely regarded as a kensei . He was the founder of a new Kashima style of fencing, and served as an instructor of Shogun Yoshiteru Ashikaga and Ise Province provincial governor Tomonori Kitabatake....
 in the Muromachi period (c.1530).

Due to its formation during the tumultuous Sengoku Jidai, a time of feudal war, the school's techniques are based on battlefield experience and revolve around finding weak points in the opponent's armor. The sword
Sword

A sword is a long, edged piece of metal, used as a cutting, thrusting, and clubbing weapon in many civilizations throughout the world. The word sword comes from the Old English language wikt:sweord, cognate to Old High German swert, Middle Dutch swaert, Old Norse sver? Old Frisian and Old Saxon swerd and Dutch langua...
 (katana
Katana

A Japanese sword, or , is one of the traditional bladed weapons of Japan. These are categorised in several types according to size and method of manufacture....
), spear
Spear

A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a sharpened head. The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with bamboo spears, or it may be of another material fastened to the shaft, such as obsidian, iron or bronze....
 (yari
Yari

is the Japanese language term for spear, or more specifically, the straight-headed spear. The martial art of wielding the yari is called sojutsu....
) and glaive
Glaive

A glaive is a polearm consisting of a single-edged blade on the end of a pole . It is similar to the Japanese naginata and the China Guan Dao....
 (naginata
Naginata

Naginata is a pole weapon that was traditionally used in Japan by members of the samurai class. It has become associated with women and in modern Japan it is studied by women more than men; whereas in Europe and Australia Naginata is practiced predominantly by men - this is however only simply a refection of the martial arts de...
) are some of the weapons used by the school. The current headmaster of the school is Yoshikawa Tsuenetaka.

Kashima Shinto-ryu used to have a series of iaijutsu
Iaijutsu

, often translated roughly as the "art of mental presence and immediate reaction", is the Japanese martial art of drawing the sword. At least one author makes the distinction that, strictly speaking, iaijutsu consists exclusively of the portion of combat where the sword is drawn, and that any further techniques are technically classified as kenju...
 techniques in its curriculum but these were lost over time. At least one attempt was made to recreate the iaijutsu techniques by studying the koryu martial art Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu
Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu

is one of the oldest extant Japanese martial arts, and an exemplar of koryu bujutsu. The Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu was founded by Iizasa Ienao, born 1387 in Iizasa village , who was living near Katori Shrine at the time....
 which share the same heritage as Kashima Shinto-ryu.

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