Unravelling the Cords - The Book of Taisha-ryu Swordsmanship

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@taisharyuofficial3839 9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for the nice video! We hope this book will help to improve the understanding of Japanese Kobudo. If any of you are interested, our Taisha-ryū Historical Research Group (THRG) also publishes an Annual Bulletin. Last year was about Sagara Seibei Yorimori - a senior retainer of the Sagara domain - and with tracing other possible connections to the school in the area of Hirosaki, northern Honshu, where Seibei was sent into exile in 1641. This year's bulletin is concerned with with the feudal lord of the Yanagawa Domain - Tachibana Muneshige (立花宗茂; 1567 - 1643), who was a licensed student of Marume Kurando, and follows him, Kurando and other historical figures related to Taisha-ryū through the period of the Imjin War (1592-1597).

@jamieadams7550 4 ай бұрын

Love your history teaching

@saberserpent1134 9 ай бұрын

"Taisha in the East; Marumé in the West" Great storytelling regarding this unique Koryū, it's history, and it's curriculum! Will definitely share this to the FB study group! Great vid!

@JimKiev 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Great review of a previously unknown (to me) book, which I will surely purchase and read. Keep up the great work!!

@AntonyCummins 9 ай бұрын

Alex Alera has done the best research for this book. He has done a lot of samurai research.

@BeachTypeZaku 9 ай бұрын

I loved the last video you did concerning the Taisha-Ryu school. The swordsmanship in Japan is so unique it's nigh impossible to mistake it for any other. These schools keep the culture alive for us to experience today and very thankful they are still around.❤

@mikotagayuna8494 9 ай бұрын

I appreciate how you laid out the caveat about martial arts not being your expertise and discussing this book in the lens of an onlooker. Too many people have styled themselves as experts in martial arts just because they have a KZbin channel or have attended some classes. Some even presume to be authoritative in the interpretation of these documents despite their inability to engage with their primary sources.

@dees.daniel7 9 ай бұрын

Wonderful video. Thank you for taking the time to create such a thoughtful video. Greetings from Taisha Ryu in North America.

@outboundflight4455 8 ай бұрын

Where is your dojo located if you don't mind me asking?

@loneronin6813 9 ай бұрын

I wish I could train in swordsmanship, especially Japanese methods/styles. Due to issues with my hands I'm unable to even hold a sword anymore and due to an injury that keeps me from striking and pulling off most throws I now use a mix of sweeps, joint locks, holds, chokes, and limb breaks. I've also been learning Yang Taijiquan so that I can teach it locally for free and teach my own methods alongside it to anyone interested. I may not train the same way I used to, but I still consider myself a legitimate martial artist as everything I've learned to combine together I pressure test with a friend of mine who I've been teaching just because I love having someone to share my martial arts passion with and I feel that teaching it is the way I was meant to share something and contribute to the betterment of the world. Just as the Samurai served a master (something or rather someone beyond themselves) I feel that in my own way I'm doing the same by teaching others so that they may maintain health and more importantly, protect their own lives and the lives of others. I like to think some of the mentality of older martial arts teachings is instilled in me from my own training and experience. I don't think of myself as a modern-day Samurai or anything, I just strive to serve a similar purpose I suppose.

@outboundflight4455 8 ай бұрын

Have you tried ZNKR Seitei Iaido

@loneronin6813 8 ай бұрын

@@outboundflight4455 I haven't heard of that specific form of Iaido, but it sounds interesting. What does it entail? Do you know where I can find out more about it?

@loneronin6813 8 ай бұрын

@@outboundflight4455 Sadly the only thing I can hold is a knife but there are no classes for any form of knife training available to me so I've been learning out of books. Lately I've found that even Tai Chi is too painful for me to do, but oddly enough I can do most of the techniques from Shuai Jiao, a traditional form of Chinese Wrestling. I've also been learning that from books and other sources since again there are no schools for it where I live. I would take up Aikido because I think I could do it, but again there are no classes for it where I live and also as I understand it the art's effectiveness is often called into question, but I would do it just out of my love for martial arts more so than techniques I would look to use in a self defense scenario. It's hard to practice solo for me, but I do teach a friend of mine what I know when he has the time and my girlfriend that I recently started a relationship with wants me to teach her as well so that's something, I guess. No one else is willing to learn from me though because I'm disabled and what I teach isn't from a single style that I have a high enough rank in to teach as what I do is a hybrid of techniques more than anything.

@outboundflight4455 8 ай бұрын

@@loneronin6813 it's the federally established style for Iaido in Japan. It is also practiced globally. I'm sure there must be at least a dojo in your town that practices it. I would recommend searching all swordmanship schools and dojos around your area and making calls or emails and asking them if they offer it.

@loneronin6813 8 ай бұрын

@@outboundflight4455 Thanks I really appreciate the advice and information. Where I live there's a Korean sword class similar to Iaido called Haidong Gumdo but it's super expensive and I can't hold a sword, I can only hold knives. I've learned some knife fighting back when I trained in Krav Maga and learned basic techniques on my own, but I would love to train in a specific method or system of knife fighting, which I also can't find any classes for. When it comes to unarmed martial arts, I can only perform grappling moves from standing. I can't pick people up and throw them anymore, though. That's why I combine sweeps with joint locks, chokes, holds, takedowns, and limb breaking techniques.

@azrielaquino4176 9 ай бұрын

If you may sir, you can do a video about Ishikawa Goemon, who was a thief and was boiled alive including his son. He tried to assasinate Hideyoshi.

@TheCCBoi 9 ай бұрын

Amazing video, cant wait to read the book.

@xxmrbrooksxx 9 ай бұрын

Always great content. I don't know if you read these yet but I have two books to recommend. "Legacies Of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture, by Karl F. Friday and Seki Humitake. And, The Secret Teachings of the Family Sword by Yagyu Munenori.

@JuliusK-z1d 9 ай бұрын

Karl Friday's "Legacies of the Sword" has already been recommended elsewhere in the comments, but much of his later interviews on the subject in articles and interviews are also valuable (such as one from 2021 on Budo Japan). He re-examines some of his old positions from the book in the later articles, a major one being the fundamental misunderstanding of what koryu schools were actually created for. And it wasn't just (or even mainly) about combat even in the 15-16th centuries.

@-RONNIE 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video 👍🏻

@SengokuStudies 9 ай бұрын

I either didn't know or didn't remember that you have swords and do backyard cutting kind of stuff.

@TheShogunate 9 ай бұрын

I've talked about it on the discord a bit, but yeah I don't really advertise it haha

@Sw-sx7nw 9 ай бұрын

Extremely cool

@hanzohattori5908 9 ай бұрын

Very interesting story

@JiggaMan1297 9 ай бұрын

Marume Kurando / Marume Nagayoshi was once named by the Tokugawa Shogunate as the greatest swordsman in Western Japan

@claudiegarnier4560 9 ай бұрын

Thanks❤

@drholidayinn5810 9 ай бұрын

Who's the winged character?

@itskyyuuuu 9 ай бұрын

Commenting for the algorithm and for the only alpha comedian

@tip9223 9 ай бұрын

You should definitely start training... I do Ki Aikido (Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido). and Shaolin. There are a lot of Iado schools. Any community would love your passion and historical knowledge. 🙏

@akarivn 6 ай бұрын

I mistook some information due to bad memory. So I edit this comment in order not to confuse other.

@taisharyuofficial3839 5 ай бұрын

I am sorry, but you must be mixing up some stories. Kurando died over 160 years before Shūsaku was born. Marume Kurando 1540-1629; Chiba Shūsaku 1792-1855.

@akarivn 5 ай бұрын

@@taisharyuofficial3839 Thanks for clarifying. I think it was my bad memory. Maybe the article referred to Yagyū Munenori and Marume Kurando. As far as I recall, Marume Kudando referred to himself as "nishi no tenka ichi".

@CptFugu 9 ай бұрын

"Master sold separately"

@jarred2694 9 ай бұрын

No mention of the Tengu?

@LonnieBooker-g9m 9 ай бұрын

I wish I could go to Japan 🇯🇵 and study 📖 this technique.

@SpeedDemon_Editzzz 9 ай бұрын

Fuck Yeah some more Samurai Goatness🗡🔥💯

@josetgomez 9 ай бұрын

This story of Marume Kurando and Miyamoto Musashi never happens. There have been few intents of making Musashi as a loser and always is the same lineage line, from the Sinto Ryu of Tsukahara Bokuden and Sinto ryu Muso Ryu of Gonnnosuke schools and the Taisha Ryu of Marume Kurando that they don’t accept that The supremacy of Musashi’s wisdom power over the Sinto god's supposed martial inspirations techniques.