Who practice Japanese martial arts?
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Shurikenjutsu Shurikenjutsu (手裏剣術 ) is a general term describing the traditional Japanese martial arts of throwing "shuriken", which are small, hand-held weapons used primarily by the Samurai in feudal Japan, such as metal spikes "bō shuriken", circular plates of metal known as "hira shuriken", and knives ("tantō").
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Samurai Samurai (侍 ) were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.
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Tadashi Abe Tadashi Abe (阿部 正 , Abe Tadashi ) (1926 – November 23, 1984) was the first aikido master to live and teach in the west. He began training in Aikido in Osaka in 1942 and went on to train directly under the founder of the art Morihei Ueshiba at Iwama as an uchideshi during World War II. In 1952, after graduating in law from Waseda University, he moved to France where he studied law at the Sorbonne and taught aikido as a 6th Dan representative of Aikikai Honbu. After seven years he returned to Japan. By 1964 he was a 7th dan black belt in aikido.
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Aikido Aikido (Japanese: 合気道 , Hepburn: aikidō ) ] is a modern Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Aikido is often translated as "the way of unifying (with) life energy" or as "the way of harmonious spirit".
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Ogasawara-ryū The Ogasawara-ryū (小笠原流 , "Ogasawara school" ) is a traditional Japanese system of martial arts and etiquette, formalised and handed down by the Ogasawara clan.
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Karate gi Karategi (空手着 or 空手衣) is the formal Japanese name for the traditional uniform used for Karate practice and competition.
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Shinpo Matayoshi Matayoshi Shinpo (or Shimpo) 又吉眞豊 (1921–1997) was a martial artist who lived in Naha, Okinawa during the 20th Century.
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Koichiro Okuma Koichiro Okuma (Okuma Koichiro , 29 December 1970) is a Japanese instructor of Shotokan karate. He is currently an instructor of the Japan Karate Association.
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Hard and soft (martial arts) In martial arts, the terms hard and soft technique denote how forcefully a defender martial artist counters the force of an attack in armed and unarmed combat. In the East Asian martial arts, the corresponding hard technique and soft technique terms are 硬 (pinyin yìng, Japanese gō) and 柔 (pinyin róu, Japanese jū), hence Goju-ryu (hard-soft school), Shorinji Kempo principles of "go-ho" ("hard method") and "ju-ho" ("soft method"), Jujutsu (“art of softness”) and Judo (“gentle way”).
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Judo in the United Kingdom The Japanese martial art Judo was first introduced in the United Kingdom in 1899, when entrepreneur Edward William Barton-Wright sponsored a visit from a team of Japanese judoka with the intention of establishing a jujutsu school in England. The introduction was not immediately successful, but some members of the team, including Yukio Tani, remained in England and gradually cultivated public interest in Judo and other types of jujutsu through demonstrations, instruction, and prize fighting. The United Kingdom's first Judo dojo, the Budokwai, is the oldest in Europe and was founded by Gunji Koizumi in 1918 with Tani as its chief instructor.
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Jukenpo Jūkenpo (柔拳法 , jūkenpo or sometimes jūkempo ) is a Japanese martial art. Its name can be translated as ""the Way of the soft fist"" or ""the soft boxing"".
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Ansatsuken Ansatsuken (暗殺拳 , literally "assassination fist") is a Japanese neologism used frequently in fictional works to describe any martial art style or fighting technique that has been developed with the purpose of killing an opponent. The term satsujinken (殺人剣 , literally "murderer sword") is used interchangeably as well.
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Tessenjutsu Tessenjutsu (鉄扇術 , lit. "iron fan technique") is the martial art of the Japanese war fan (tessen). It is based on the use of the solid iron fan or the folding iron fan, which usually had eight or ten wood or iron ribs.
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Geo Omori Geo Omori (died 1938) was a Japanese-born Brazilian martial artist, and one of the creators of judo-based martial arts in Brazil.
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Ittatsu-ryū Ittatsu-ryū (一達流 ) is a traditional school ("koryū") of the Japanese martial art of "hojōjutsu". Today, Ittatsu-ryū has been assimilated into the traditional school of Shintō Musō-ryū. This particular school of "hojōjutsu" was created in the late 17th century by Matsuzaki Kinueimon Shigekatsu, the third Shintō Musō-ryū headmaster. The modern Ittatsu-ryū system comprises 24 training-forms ("kata"), grouped into 3 different series.
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Japanese painting Japanese painting (絵画 , kaiga, also gadō 画道) is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese visual arts, encompassing a wide variety of genres and styles. As with the history of Japanese arts in general, the long history of Japanese painting exhibits synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and the adaptation of imported ideas, mainly from Chinese painting which was especially influential at a number of points; significant Western influence only comes from the later 16th century onwards, beginning at the same time as Japanese art was influencing that of the West.
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Yasuo Hanzaki Yasuo Hanzaki (Hanzaki Yasuo , 12 December 1962) is a Japanese instructor of Shotokan karate.
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Shōgō Kuniba Shōgō Kuniba (国場 将豪 , Kuniba Shōgō , February 5, 1935 - July 14, 1992) was a Japanese teacher of karate and iaido
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Jō A jō (杖:じょう ) is an approximately 1.27 m wooden staff, used in some Japanese martial arts. The martial art of wielding the jō is called "jōjutsu" or "jōdō". Also, "aiki-jō" is a set of techniques in aikido which uses the jō to illustrate aikido's principles with a weapon. The jō staff is shorter than the "bō". Today, the jō is still used by some Japanese police forces.
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Kashima Shrine Kashima Shrine (鹿島神宮 "Kashima Jingū") is a shrine dedicated to the Shinto Kami Takemikazuchi-no-Ōkami (武甕槌大神), one of the patron deities of martial arts. Various dojo (道場　"Dōjō") of kenjutsu (剣術) and kendo (剣道 "Kendō") sometimes display a Kakejiku (掛軸) hanging scroll emblazoned with Takemikazuchi-no-Ōkami. The shrine is located in Kashima, Ibaraki and is the home of Kashima Shintō-ryū (鹿島新当流). During the New Year period, from the first to the third of January, Kashima Shrine is visited by over 600,000 people from all over Japan. It is the second most visited shrine in Ibaraki prefecture (茨城県 "Ibaraki-ken") for new year pilgrims.
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Matsumoto Masanobu Matsumoto Bizen-no-kami Masanobu (松本備前守正元 ) was a semi-legendary Japanese warrior and founder of the Kashima Shin-ryū school of swordsmanship and a member of the noble lineage of the ancient Ki clan (Ki no Miyatsuko 紀伊国造).
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Mataemon Tanabe Mataemon Tanabe (田辺又右衛門 , Tanabe Mataemon , 1869-1942) was a Japanese jiu-jitsu practitioner and master of the Fusen-ryū school. He was famous for defeating multiple members of the Kodokan in challenge matches.