Yagyū Shinkage-ryū

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Yagyū Shinkage-ryū ( Japanese 柳生 新 陰 流 , German "Yagyū New Shadow School") is one of the best-known traditions of Japanese sword fighting. The name Yagyū refers to the family who took over the management of this school at the end of the 16th century and shaped it significantly.

history

The tradition of Yagyū Shinkage-ryū goes back to Kamiizumi Ise-no-Kami . He learned Kage-ryū from its founder Aisu Ikkosai and was also well versed in both the Kashima Shinryu and the Katori Shinto-ryū . From this experience he created his own school, Shinkage-ryū . The Yagyū family came into contact with Kamiizumi when Yagyū Muneyoshi suffered a bitter defeat in a duel with a student of Kamiizumi. Muneyoshi then asked to become a student of Kamiizumi. He was accepted and eventually went so far that he was named by Kamiizumi as his successor in 1565. Together with his son Yagyū Munenori Muneyoshi managed to establish his school as the official fencing school of the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu . The Yagyū family provided fencing teachers for the shoguns of the Tokugawa clan for a total of three generations.

His son Yagyū Munenori remained a teacher until the 3rd Tokugawa Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu . After Tokugawa Yoshinao became the daimyō of the Owari - han based in Nagoya , he was trained from 1615 by Muneyoshi's grandson Yagyū Toshiyoshi ( 柳生 利 厳 ), with which the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū became the Owari Yagyū Shinkage-ryū ( 尾 張柳生 新 陰)流 ) in Nagoya and in Edo remaining Edo Yagyū Shinkage Ryu ( 江戸柳生新陰流 ) split.

The great-grandson Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi , who continued the tradition, is compared in Japan to Miyamoto Musashi . The former increased the political influence of his school at the court of the Shogun and is surrounded by legends and sagas.

Shinkage-ryū is considered to be one of the first sword schools to use a Fukuro Shinai as a training weapon, which makes it possible to train with very hard contact without injuring the partner.

Curriculum

The main focus of the curriculum is on sword techniques, which include Ōdachi , Kodachi and Nito . In addition, the Batto-jutsu techniques of the Yagyū Seigo-ryū are often taught, as well as a smaller number of techniques with the Jō .

literature

  • Yagyu Munenori: The way of the samurai. Instructions for strategic action . Piper 2004, ISBN 3-492-23631-6