{"id":1759,"date":"2025-07-18T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/budobooks.jp\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:42:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:42:58","slug":"strategy-and-the-art-of-peace-tenshinsho-den-katori-shintto-ryu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/budobooks.jp\/?p=1759","title":{"rendered":"Strategy and the Art of Peace – Tenshinsho-den Katori Shinto-ryu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Risuke \u014ctake
Translated by Daniel Lee
(Editorial Supervision by Alexander Bennett)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A narrative on the extensive martial curriculum and wisdom of the Tenshinsho-den Katori Shinto-ryu, one of the source traditions of Japanese swordsmanship, from its incumbent master teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Encompasses an introduction to the history, technical curriculum including kenjutsu (swordsmanship), iaijutsu<\/em> (sword drawing), naginatajutsu<\/em> (halberd), and shurikenjutsu<\/em> (throwing spikes), and esoteric \/ strategic curriculum including h\u014dijutsu<\/em> (directional divination) and chikuj\u014djutsu<\/em> (fortifications) of the Katori Shint\u014d-ry\u016b, based on references to its scrolls. Additionally includes the author\u2019s reflections on nearly seventy years of austere training, and illuminates the \u201cart of peace\u201d, the philosophical foundation required of all practitioners.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Contents<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Foreword<\/strong>
Preface<\/strong>
Prologue The History of Katori Jing\u016b<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 1 Our History<\/strong>
Section 1 Tenshinsh\u014d-den KatoriShint\u014d-ry\u016b \u2014The tradition directly transmitted from Futsunushi-no-Kami<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 2 Apprenticeship<\/strong>
Section 1 Initiation into the tradition
Section 2 My apprenticeship under Hayashi-sensei
Section 3 Katori Shint\u014d-ry\u016b\u2019s first foreign student
Section 4 600th Anniversary of the birth of Iizasa Ch\u014disai<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 3 Technical Curriculum<\/strong>
Section 1 Kenjutsu
Section 2 Iaijutsu
Section 3 B\u014djutsu, Naginata-jutsu, S\u014djutsu, and Shuriken-jutsu
Section 4 J\u016bjutsu
Section 5 Ninjutsu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 4 Strategic Curriculum<\/strong>
Section 1 Tonk\u014djutsu
Section 2 Swords and Mikky\u014d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 5 Philosophy\u2014A message to all martial arts practitioners<\/strong>
Section 1 Considerations for practitioners to take to heart
Section 2 The art of war is the art of peace\u2014noble teachings toward achieving peace<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterword<\/strong>
Appendix I<\/strong> Sutra on One\u2019s Debts to One\u2019s Mother and Father
Appendix II<\/strong> Poems on One\u2019s Debts to One\u2019s Mother and Father
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