Kasumi Shinto-ryu Kenjutsu

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Kasumi Shinto-ryu Kenjutsu

, or (Shinto-ryu Kenjutsu), is one of the names used to describe the collection of sword-versus-sword training-forms (kata) for the long and short sword found exclusively in the Japanese martial arts system Shinto Muso-ryu

Shinto Muso-ryu

, most commonly known by its practice of jodo, is a traditional school of the Japanese martial art of jojutsu, or the art of wielding the short staff ....
. The system comprises 12 standing forms, 8 of which are for the longsword (Odachi
Odachi

An , meaning "great big sword", was a type of long Japanese sword. The term nodachi, or "field sword", which refers to a different type of sword, is often mistakenly used in place of odachi....
) and 4 with the short sword (kodachi
Kodachi

for other uses see:Kodachi A , literally translating into "small or short tachi ", is a Japanese sword that is too short to be considered a long sword but too long to be a dagger....
).

core of the Shinto Muso Ryu system is comprised of two elements, the jojutsu training forms and the twelve kenjutsu training forms. The origin of these kenjutsu forms are not clear other than it was a part of SMR from the beginning of the tradition, unlike the assimilated arts of Uchida-ryu, Ikkaku-ryu, Ittatsu-ryu and Isshin-ryu.

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Shinto Muso-ryu

History

The core of the Shinto Muso Ryu system is comprised of two elements, the jojutsu training forms and the twelve kenjutsu training forms. The origin of these kenjutsu forms are not clear other than it was a part of SMR from the beginning of the tradition, unlike the assimilated arts of Uchida-ryu, Ikkaku-ryu, Ittatsu-ryu and Isshin-ryu. Before creating the SMR, the founder, Muso Gonnosuke, had extensive training and experience in other martial arts. He received a Menkyo Kaiden, a license of complete transmission, in the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu tradition and he was said to have mastered secret techniques derived from the Kashima lineage of martial arts tradition.

Up until the mid 1800s 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 Shinto-ryu kenjutsu in the mid 1800s by research made into the history of SMR by the SMR-practitioner Umezaki Chukichi.

The discovery of the name "Kasumi" Shinto-ryu was made from recent research by the SMR-practitioner Kaminoda Tsunemori, a direct student of Shimizu Takaji and leader of the Nihon Jodokai-group. This research has not yet been verified by independent sources, but the Kasumi designation has been used within Kaminoda's own organization to label the 12 kenjutsu forms. The name Shinto-ryu and Kasumi Shinto-ryu is used interchangeably among the various SMR-Jodo organizations and no consensus has been made on which name is to be used.

Methods

Training

The 12 forms of Kasumi Shinto-ryu Kenjutsu:

Longsword

1. Aisui (Sa)
2. Aisui (Yu)
3. Ju
4. Chibarai
5. Sarin
6. Uke nagashi
7. Nito ai - attacker uses both long and shortsword at the same time
8. Suri komi

Shortsword

9. Inchu
10. Uke kaeshi
11. Miuki dome
12. Tsuki dashi

Footnotes

The name "Kasumi" Shinto-ryu is not the universal way of naming the 12 sword kata. The discovery of the name "Kasumi" Shinto-ryu was made from recent research into the history of Shinto Muso-ryu but is yet to be confirmed. The most common and older way of naming the 12 sword kata in SMR is "Shinto-ryu".
The true origin of the 12 kenjutsu forms is still not fully explored. Most likely the originator of the forms were Muso Gonnosuke, the creator of the Shinto Muso-ryu tradition

Acronyms Used in Text

SMR= Shinto Muso-ryu