Nen Ryu Kenjutsu - Higuchi Sadahito - Meiji Jingu Kobudo Demonstration 2018

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School: Nen Ryū Kenjutsu
Event: Meiji Jingu Kobudo Demonstration 2018
Date: 03/11/2018
Venue: Meiji Jingu, Nishisando Shibachi
Representative: Higuchi Sadahito

-- PRESENTATION: NEN RYŪ KENJUTSU --
The founder of Nen Ryū was from the Sōma clan of Ōshū (Fukuoka prefecture). He was called Sōma Shirō Yoshimoto and developed his techniques during the first year of the Ōan era (1368) in Anraku temple in Tsukushi. Later, he came to Inakōri Namiai in the Shinshū province and built a temple himself, taking the name of “Nen’ami Jion”.
Higuchi Kaneshige became his best disciple and mastered the essential principles of Nen Ryū. In 1500 (9ème année de l’ère Meiō), he moved to Maniwa.
Later, at the time of the 13th director Masasada, it is famous that one of the 47 ronins, Horibe Yasubei, was precisely a member of this school.
In 1991, the Kata of Maniwa Nen Ryū were designated as important intangible cultural assets of Yoshiimachi in Gunma prefecture.
The teachings of Maniwa Nen Ryū being an art of self-defense, the goal is not to bring down the opponent but to wield the sword with a mind filled with enough victory and enough defeat in order to provide a complete protection. This should be at the centre of the fighting.

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