Jikishinkage-ryū Naginatajutsu
直心影流薙刀術The second of the two classical naginata schools. Created in the 1860s by the Satake husband and wife; modern naginata derives from it and Tendō-ryū.
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About Jikishinkage-ryū Naginatajutsu
Jikishinkage-ryū naginatajutsu is a Japanese classical school of the naginata and, together with Tendō-ryū, one of the two traditions from which modern sporting atarashii naginata derives. What is remarkable about its origin is who stands behind it. The naginata style was created sometime in the 1860s by Satake Kanryūsai and his wife Satake Shigeo — a married couple, not a single master. That is no accident: from the Edo period the naginata became in Japan above all a woman's weapon, practised in samurai households as a defensive skill and as a subject of upbringing, and this school played a key part in that. One caveat is needed about the name. The school claims descent from Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū, the sword line attributed to Matsumoto Bizen no Kami around 1570. Scholars however point out that it contains neither the original teachings nor the techniques of that sword school — the name therefore expresses respect for the lineage rather than a documented technical continuity. It is listed here as a school in its own right, with its own founding pair and its own era. No year of founding is given: the sources speak only of the 1860s, and the exact date is unknown. The present head of the school is Taniguchi Katsumi.
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