Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū
Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū (天真正伝香取神道流) is one of the oldest extant Japanese martial arts and an exemplar of bujutsu. It was founded by Iizasa Ienao, who lived near Katori Shrine at the time. The ryū is purported to have been founded in 1447, but some scholars state that it was about 1480.
Meiji Shrine festival special dedication
Katori Shinto Ryu Dojo training hall in Katori city, Japan
Iizasa Ienao founded Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū in 1447
Risuke Otake (Pic. M. Stokhof 2007)
Japanese martial arts refers to the variety of martial arts native to the country of Japan. At least three Japanese terms are used interchangeably with the English phrase Japanese martial arts.
Late 19th-century photograph of a sohei fully robed and equipped, armed with a naginata (薙刀) and tachi (太刀)
Disarming an attacker using a tachi-dori (太刀取り; "sword-taking") technique
Jujutsu training at an agricultural school in Japan around 1920
A matched set (daisho) of antique Japanese (samurai) swords and their individual mountings (koshirae), katana on top and wakisashi below, Edo period