Hello everyone. My name is Kei Kanaeda. I am from the Japan. My
hometown is Kochi prefecture and I was born in 1993. I’m a freshman of
University of Tsukuba. I made this blog because the subject of my English
lesson is chosen your favorite theme and make your blog in English with this
theme. I have liked martial arts for a long time, especially Japanese old
martial arts. So I want to write about martial arts. But I seldom got
opportunity to do any martial arts because Kochi is very country so there are
very few dojo (training halls) for martial arts. Of course, there is not
anything and I could gain opportunity to do. But probably I was not satisfied
with it because as far as I can see there are no martial arts which are “true”
martial arts: I mean there are sports. The situation was changed when I entered
University of Tsukuba. I met some martial arts. Some I had known others I
hadn’t known. Above all, I was deeply impressed by one martial art:
Kashima-Shinryu. Probably many people think “what is this?” So I want to
present Kashima Shinryu. But this school has many secret techniques and I must
keep its secret. I don’t know how far I can speak about Kashima-Shinryu.
Therefore I’m going to cite from Official site of the Kashima-Shinryu
Federation of Martial Sciences. The following is quoted from Official site of
the Kashima-Shinryu Federation of Martial Sciences.
Kashima Shinryū is nearly 500 years old Japanese koryu (old) martial
arts. The art was somewhat popularized in the 20th century by Kunii Zen'ya
(1894-1966), the 18th generation soke (headmaster). The Current 'Soke'
is 21st Generation Kunii Masakatsu. The line is still headed by the Kunii
family but is more or less honorific as the responsibility for the preservation
and teaching of the ryu is instilled in a 'Shihanke' - currently represented by
Seki Humitake. 'Shihanke' roughly translates as 'instructor’s house' and is
something which is not uncommon in koryū-bujutsu. The name Kashima refers to
Kashima Shrine that is located in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture. Kashima-Shinryū
includes kenjutsu, battojutsu, jojutsu, jujutsu, kusarigama: a sickle and chain
(used as a weapon), and several other skills in its curriculum. Kashima-Shinryū
can be studied not only in Japan but also in the United States in Athens, GA, Bozeman,
MT, Eureka, CA and Los Angeles, CA. In Europe Kashima-Shinryū is taught in
Breda, Frankfurt, Dresden, Helsinki, Ljubljana, London and Tampere. It is held
that the greater ideals of this and other Koryū lead to betterment of the self
by repetition of the techniques because each technique has in it all the
principles of the greater Way (道 – Michi). The
present form of Kashima-Shinryû resulted from the efforts of the
eighteenth-generation shihanke, KUNII Zen'ya (1894–1966), who cultivated
his martial art training to the very limits of human endurance as he
re-evaluated in light of the Fivefold Laws each of the techniques handed down
by tradition and sought to re-elevate them to the highest spiritual levels of
Japanese martial art, which he identified as "Takemikazuchi's Sword of Hôyô-Dôka"
(acceptance and resorption). This constitutes the essence of the martial art
that the nineteenth-generation shihanke, SEKI Humitake, inherited and
that he now teaches to the next generation in a manner consistent with modern
educational methods.
Can you understand? I think it is difficult
to make sense of what it means. So if you have questions about Kashima-Shinryu
or interested in it, please access to http://www.kashima-shinryu.jp/English/index.html
I’m going to present some Japanese old martial arts. I hope many
people come to consider martial arts taking advantage of my blog.
Thank you.
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