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24.01.2022 El es el Sensei Kazuo Chiba Q.D.E.P. y es uno de los grandes maestros, muy respetado y que yo en lo personal también admiro, muy energico en su carácter, como s...e aprecia en el video su etiqueta pudiera ser muy criticable, sin embargo quién es león no le preocupa lo que diga quién es oruga. See more
22.01.2022 Seppuku Scroll Latest acquisition, a total length 113.5cm long, 16cm wide unmounted scroll listing out all the preparations required for committing the act of seppuku. apparently owned by Mizushima Bokuya (1607-1697) founder of the Mizushima Ryu.
21.01.2022 Graves of the 47 Ronin... How were they buried so close? Led a group of 20 tourists on a history tour around the Sengaku-ji Temple in Tokyo yesterday. We were ...invited into the main hall of the temple and into the rarely seen back section containing the memorial tablets of Lord Asano and his men. I took them through the museum, to the well where Lord Kira’s head was washed, then to see the graves of Lord Asano and the Loyal 47 Ronin. One of the questions was Why are the graves so close together? Good question! The day before 46 of the 47 were ordered to commit seppuku, the Sengaku-ji was ordered to prepare their graves. The 200 monks of the temple hurriedly organized funeral rites, and in a plot of land beside that of Lord Asano’s grave, long trenches were dug in groups of four, as the Ronin had been billeted out to four different daimyo houses in the time between having turned themselves into the authorities and sentencing being handed down. It was not known when the bodies would arrive from the different households, and so as not to make any mistakes, they were grouped according to the house the Ronin had committed seppuku at, rather than by their age and rank. The bodies of the Ronin were placed in wooden barrel-like coffins, seated in the fetal position with arms wrapped around their knees and their decapitated heads in the cavity between their knees and chest. When the bodies arrived at the temple, rites were performed and the bodies then laid to rest in their round wooden coffins in the prepared trenches. Wooden markers were inserted into the earth above them until stone markers could be organized. Almost directly below each stone marker lies the remains of the brave men of Ako.
21.01.2022 Welcome to Falcon Iaido.
17.01.2022 October grading
17.01.2022 What an amazing piece of serendipity. Shown around Himeji Castle by the 16 generation relative of the Lord of Matsumoto castle, Ishikawa
17.01.2022 Gemütliches Training mit anschließendem Besuch beim Italiener in der Innenstadt. #iaido #MJER #zen #schwert #meditation #training #iaidopotsdam #potsdam
16.01.2022 Masugata Mon, The Unbreachable Gate One interesting form of castle defense was the Masugata Mon, a strategically placed gate that was virtually impossible to br...each. This type of gate got its name from the square wooden rice measure and sake cup called a Masu. The square shape of the gate design, with high walls surrounding four sides a central courtyard is possibly best described and remembered by calling it a Death Box. Basically, should the enemy manage to break through the first gate, usually a smaller, but strong Korai Mon type gate, they enter a courtyard, with another, larger Yagura Mon gate (one with a fortified building running across the top) at right angles to the one they just entered. The courtyard is flanked by walls of ishigaki, dry stone walls, and topped with Tamon Yagura, being long, corridor-like defensive structures running around the top, and connected to the Yagura Mon built above and across the top of the gate. The enemy now finds themselves surrounded, with arrow and musket fire raining down from all angles. They cannot proceed without having to somehow get through the second, larger, stronger gate, a most difficult operation even without the continuous defensive fire. Battering rams were never recorded as having been used in samurai warfare, despite their use in movies and TV shows. Besides, any samurai carrying a battering ram would be the first targets for defenders. Likewise, cannon were rarely used until quite late in samurai warfare because of the weight, and as the Japanese didn’t use the wheel as such, found them difficult to transport and maneuver. The Masugata Mon was the preferred gate of castle designer Todo Takatora who designed or influenced over 30 late 1500’s early 1600’s castles across Japan.
13.01.2022 Shinsengumi Captain, Harada Sanosuke died on this day, July 6 1868 From gunfire wounds suffered during the Battle of Ueno. Harada Sanosuke was born in in 1840 i...n Matsuyama, (Ehime Prefecture) to a low ranking samurai serving the retainers of the Tokugawa Matsudaira clan. Despite having trained hard and becoming an adept in the famed Hozoin-Ryu spear disciplines, his lowly status led to him once being ridiculed as being ignorant of the way of the samurai. In an effort to prove his tormentor wrong, he stripped off his upper garments and proceeded to show that he knew the correct way to commit seppuku, however the cut was shallow enough not to have caused any internal damage, and as a kaishakunin (second) had not been properly organized for the sudden attempt, Harada survived. Years later, the scar across his abdomen would be a source of pride. It would also serve to inspire his new family crest, a circle with a horizontal line through it. Leaving Matsuyama, Harada went to Edo and trained at Kondo Isami’s sword school, and followed Kondo into the pro-Tokugawa Roushigumi, or Defenders of Kyoto, before dissent led to the formation of the Shinsegumi. Harada was much trusted by the leaders of the Shinsengumi, Serizawa Kamo and Kondo Isami and was often chosen for its many missions, including, most likely, the assassinations of Serizawa Kamo, Uchiyama Hikojiro, and was possibly involved in that of Sakamoto Ryoma too. Harada was most probably involved in the Ikedaya Affair, and in the extermination of the rival Kodaiji faction. As a member of the Shinsengumi, Harada fought in the Boshin War between Imperial and pro-Tokugawa forces in the January 1868 Battle of Toba-Fushimi on the outskirts of Kyoto, and upon returning to Edo, the ill fated Battle of Koshu-Katsunuma in March of 1868. Following this defeat, the Shinsengumi faced internal problems, with, according to versions of the story, Kondo demanding the surviving Shinsengumi members become his direct retainers. Harada and other members then left the Shinsengumi, and together with a band of Tokugawa retainers, formed the Seiheitai unit, which headed north to Aizu in search of action. Harada returned to Edo not long after to be with his wife and son, and joined the pro-Tokugawa Shogitai at the Battle of Ueno. Badly wounded by gunfire, he died two days later at the Edo residence of a fellow samurai. He was 28 years old. As a man, Harada is mostly forgotten or unknown to the majority of Japanese today, however as a samurai who saw first-hand the violent changes at the end of the samurai period, he remains an important piece in the jigsaw of the late Edo period.
10.01.2022 Something for us older time ravaged practitioners to consider
09.01.2022 Nagoya Castle, Owari Han Hanshi Meibo Two Owari Han Hanshi Meibo, being a list of the samurai employed by the Owari Domain, based in Nagoya Castle. The Owari Do...main is modern-day western Aichi Prefecture and parts of southern Gifu Prefecture, under the control of the Owari Tokugawa branch, politically and financially the strongest of the Tokugawa Gosanke, the three branches of the Tokugawa clan. The covers of the books are embossed with patterns depicting the leaves of the aoi plant, as used for Tokugawa clan crest. The string bound books are 20cm long, 8.5cm wide and filled with over 900 names each. The names of the various samurai and their positions are written on slips of washi paper in either black, occasionally red ink, and were then stuck into the books, with a maximum of 9 names per page. Some pages have blank slips of paper with nothing written on them between the names, and on some pages, the names appear to have fallen out over time, leaving visible gaps. Unfortunately, neither book has a date attached, and considering there were 7,170 samurai serving Nagoya Castle alone, are probably just a fraction of a much larger set.
06.01.2022 Taketate Samurai would often make tied up bundles of cut bamboo (take ) to use as a shield (tate ) against arrow and matchlock gun fire. The bundles could be quickly made, were lightweight and most effective against enemy fire.
06.01.2022 Nishio Castle Rebuild Nishio Castle in Aichi Prefecture has completed an authentic reconstruction of the Ushitora Yagura and part of the Byobu-Ore wall. Demolis...hed in the early Meiji period, the newly completed three-story twin-roofed Ushitora Yagura watchtower is 8.3m high. To make it earthquake resistant, lighter than traditional tiles have been used for the roofing. The interior is also authentic, having been overseen by Japan's leading castle architect specialist, Professor Miura Masayuki. The Byobu-Ore wall is a traditional styled wall along the northern face of the castle. Byobu refers to the traditional folding screens, and like a folding screen this wall features a triangular section that juts out to increase shooting range. Nishio Castle's tenshudai (keep base) was reconstructed about 2 years ago, and it is believed the next stage of the plan is to rebuild the tenshu. I was supposed to attend the opening event, but this has been postponed due to the corona-virus pandemic, and so accompanying photos have been stolen from the internet. https://news.goo.ne.jp/ar/chuplus/region/chuplus-87289.html
05.01.2022 YAY!!! The state government has relaxed social gathering restriction inside and out to 10 people with social restriction to apply. That means Iaido classes are back on.
03.01.2022 This is why Japanese swords are so expensive.
01.01.2022 Best stay home exercise now between Father and son
