Heiho Niten Ichi Ryu Kenjutsu - Kajiya Takanori - 42nd All Japan Kobudo Demonstration

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School: Heihō Niten Ichi Ryū Kenjutsu
Event: 42nd All Japan Kobudo Demonstration
Date: 03/02/2019
Venue: Nippon Budōkan, Tokyo
Founder: Miyamoto Musashi Fujiwara Harunobu
Current representative: Kajiya Takanori (Sōke 12th generation)

-- PRESENTATION: HEIHŌ NITEN ICHI RYŪ KENJUTSU --
The founder of Niten Ichi Ryū is Miyamoto Musashi Fujiwara Harunobu. From a very young age he was drawn to the way of the sword and he devoted his whole life to the training of this art. After taking part in more than sixty duels, he never knew defeat, not even once. However, after reaching the age of thirty, he looked back on his practice of the sword and reflected, with a rare self-awareness: “It is not completely thank to my art of combat that I was always victorious” (Book of Five Rings, Scroll of Earth). He then started to look for a deeper truth by studying day and night. At the age of fifty, he found the true principle of the art of combat, and founded Niten Ichi Ryū.
Miyamoto Musashi is known for his two-swords techniques, using a pair of short and long swords at the same time: a Daitō (Katana) and a Shōtō (Wakizashi). The meaning of “Heihō”, the art of combat (also pronounced Hyōhō sometimes) in this school is the “training of the heart/spirit”, a way to achieve enlightenment. Without that, there cannot be victory.
What is characteristic of its techniques is to “know the opponent’s sword without seeing it”; in other words, to be able to anticipate and get the better of him by seizing the moment to strike before his sword has even moved.

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-- MUSIC --
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