Meaning of ryuha | Babel Free

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A Japanese school of a specific discipline, usually martial arts.

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“But the fighting arts they had shaped and reshaped during their millennium-long existence continued to develop. Many traditional ryūha—the Kashima-Shinryū among them—carried on much as they had during the Tokugawa period.”

“Ideally, ryūha were based upon the long-standing principle that social relationships are bound by fictive kinship rules. Relationships between the ryūha head and his students tended to follow authority-intensive patron-client relationships.”

“One problem that arises when seeking the origins of weapons and trying to assign an inventor to them is that after the passage of so much time there is often no way of being absolutely certain, and accepted accounts of certain weapons, while fascinating, are not necessarily reliable. Moreover, anecdotes told in any ryūha that uses a particular weapon, although perhaps true to a certain extent, present a biased view.”

“Some acquired a hereditary position with particular daimyō, while others maintained their own independent ryūha, and enjoyed the spectacle of swordsmen who were skilled in their own right begging to be allowed to be taken on as pupils.”

“In like manner, kata are the “works” of a ryuha’s current and past masters, the living embodiment of the school’s teachings.”

“Half-sword techniques appear in some Japanese schools as well. Although most kenjutsu ryuha tend to avoid these methods, a few schools seem to specialize in them.”

“The actual color of the belt may differ from ryuha to ryuha or dojo to dojo”

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