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Kage-ryū
is a Japanese koryū martial art founded in the late Muromachi period c. 1550 by Yamamoto Hisaya Masakatsu. __TOC__ About The system teaches battojutsu using very long swords known as Nodachi, choken. The kanji for Choken Battojutsu Kageryū (''景流'') means ''keshiki'', or a scene. This is the original name of a ryū (school), ryū from Yanagawa fief in Kyushu and it has not been changed since inception in the mid sixteenth century. There are many ''Handscroll, makimono'' (scrolls) and manuscripts and other evidence that contain the teachings of the school. The tradition also includes oral teachings (''kuden'') that have been handed down throughout the generations. History The founder of the Kageryū was Yamamoto Hisaya Masakatsu of Akizuki clan, Akizuki domain. It is said that Yamamoto had observed a "scene" of a monkey reaching out with stick to retrieve a fruit from a tree. He then had the idea to use a longer weapon to "reach out". Others may hasten to add that a long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan (rank)
The ranking system is used by many Japanese, Okinawan, Korean, and other martial arts organizations to indicate the level of a person's ability within a given system. Used as a ranking system to quantify skill level in a specific domain, it was originally used at a Go (game), Go school during the Edo period. It is now also used in most modern Japanese fine and martial arts. Martial arts writer Takao Nakaya claims that this dan system was first applied to martial arts in Japan by Kanō Jigorō (1860–1938), the founder of judo, in 1883, and later introduced to other East Asian countries. In gendai budo, modern Japanese martial arts, holders of dan ranks often wear a black belt (martial arts), black belt; those of higher rank may also wear either red-and-white or Red belt (martial arts), red belts depending on the style. Dan ranks are also given for strategic board games such as Go, Japanese chess (''shōgi''), and renju, as well as for other arts such as the Japanese tea cerem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ko-ryū Bujutsu
is a Japanese term for any kind of Japanese school of traditional arts. The term literally translates as " old school" (''ko''—'old', '' ryū''—'school') or "traditional school". It is sometimes also translated as "old style". Martial arts ''Ko-ryū'' is often used as a synonymous shorthand for , ancient Japanese martial arts that predate the Meiji Restoration of 1868.Draeger, Donn F. (1974) ''Modern Bujutsu and Budo''. New York: Weatherhill. Page 57. In English, the International Hoplology Society draws a distinction between ''Koryū'' and ''Kobudō'' martial arts based on their origin and the differences between their ranking of priorities concerning combat, morals, discipline, and/or aesthetic form. ''Ikebana'' (flower-arranging) ''Ko-ryū'' is one of the oldest and most traditional schools of ''Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arrangement. It is also known as . The origin of ikebana can be traced back to the ancient Japanese custom of erecting Evergreen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miike Coal Mine
, also known as the , was the largest coal mine in Japan,Karan, P.P. & Stapleton, K.E. (1997) ''The Japanese city'p.181University Press of Kentucky Retrieved January 2012. located in the area of the city of Ōmuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto, Japan. In 1960, it was the setting for the " Miike Struggle," which was the largest management-labor dispute in Japanese history. In 2015, it was registered as one of the assets of the UNESCO Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining World Heritage Site. History Prewar history Coal was discovered in this area by a farmer in 1469; however, commercial scale exploitation did not begin until 1721, when the '' karō'' of Miike Domain received permission to open a mine. In pre-industrial Japan, the main market for coal was for use in salt production in the Seto Inland Sea; however, in the Bakumatsu period, the importance of coal as a fuel for steam engines became increasing evident, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tachibana Clan (samurai)
The Tachibana clan (立花氏) was a Japanese clan of ''daimyō'' (feudal lords) during Japan's Sengoku and Edo periods. Originally based in Tachibana castle in Kyūshū, the family's holdings were moved to the Yanagawa Domain in the far north-east of Honshū in the Edo period. The clan, which bore no direct relation to the Tachibana clan of the Heian period, originated with Ōtomo Sadatoshi (d. 1336), who took on the name and assigned it to the family of Ōtomo vassals who held Tachibana castle. For a time, the Tachibana served as loyal retainers under the Ōtomo clan, regularly battling the Shimazu, rivals to the Ōtomo. In the mid-16th century, a conflict between Ōtomo Akitoshi and Ōtomo Sōrin led to the former splitting from the family, and taking the name Tachibana Dōsetsu. Dōsetsu had no sons, and nominated his daughter, Tachibana Ginchiyo, to succeed him. Shortly afterwards, she would marry Takahashi Munetora, a vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who helped de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arao, Kumamoto
290px, Arao City Hall 290px, of the Miike coal mine is a city in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 49,334 in 24,092 households, and a population density of 860 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography Arao is located in northwest Kumamoto Prefecture, about 40 kilometers northwest of Kumamoto City. It is bordered by Fukuoka Prefecture to the north and the Ariake Sea to the west. Neighboring municipalities Fukuoka Prefecture * Ōmuta Kumamoto Prefecture * Nagasu * Nankan * Tamana Climate Arao has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Arao is 16.4 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1932 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.9 °C, and lowest in January, at around 6.3 °C. Demographics Per Japanese census data, the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oishi Susumu
Oishi Susumu Tanetsugu (大石進種次, 1798–1863) was a Japanese kenjutsu practitioner. He was active during the Tenpō period in the first half of the nineteenth century. A retainer of the Tachibana clan, he was unusually tall for a Japanese person of his day, standing tall. Having trained in the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, Oishi started his own style of swordsmanship called the Oishi Shinkage Ryu, which attracted many pupils and made Oishi comparatively wealthy. He also made money from ''dojo arashi'' (dojo storming), a practice in which a skilled swordsman would challenge masters of other schools. As Oishi was a formidable fighter, many teachers paid him off in order to avoid the embarrassment of a public defeat. Oishi himself eventually suffered a swift and humiliating defeat at the hands of Otani Nobutomo, a swordsman of the Jikishinkage-ryū. He specialised in powerful thrusting techniques, which were made more effective by the length of his weapon. At the time there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oishi Shinkage-ryū Kenjutsu
Oishi may refer to: * Ōishi (surname), a Japanese surname * Oishi (Philippine brand), a snack company from the Philippines * Oishi Group, a Thai food-and-drink company * Ōishi Station is a railway station on the Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Overview Layout This station is elevated and has two island platforms serving two tracks each, and crossovers are located on both sid ..., a train station in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan * 3379 Oishi, a main-belt asteroid {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cun (unit)
A ''cun'' ( ; Pinyin cùn International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA , mi=), often glossed as the ''Chinese inch'', is a traditional Chinese units of measurement, Chinese unit of length. Its traditional measure is the width of a person's thumb at the knuckle, whereas the width of the two forefingers denotes 1.5 cun and the width of four fingers (except the thumb) side-by-side is 3 cuns. It continues to be used to chart acupuncture points on the human body, and, in various uses for traditional Chinese medicine. The cun was part of a larger decimal system. A cun was made up of 10 fen (length), fen, which depending on the period approximated lengths or widths of millet grains, and represented one-tenth of a chi (unit), chi ("Chinese foot"). In time the lengths were standardized, although to different values in different jurisdictions. (See ''Chi (unit)'' for details.) In Hong Kong, using the traditional standard, it measures ~3.715 cm (~1.463 in) and is written "tsun". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martial Art
Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defence; military and law enforcement applications; competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage. The concept of martial arts was originally associated with East Asian tradition, but subsequently the term has been applied to practices that originated outside that region. Etymology "Martial arts" is a direct English translation of the Sino-Japanese word (, ). Literally, it refers to "武 martial" and "芸 arts". The term ''martial arts'' was popularized by mainstream popular culture during the 1960s to 1970s, notably by Hong Kong martial arts films (most famously those of Bruce Lee) during the so-called " chopsocky" wave of the early 1970s. According to John Clements, the term ''martial arts'' itself is derived from an older Latin term meaning "arts of Mars", the Roman god of w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
