Negishi-ryu Shurikenjutsu
根岸流手裏剣術The last surviving Japanese school for which blade-throwing is the main subject. The nail-shaped bō-shuriken is thrown in a straight flight without rotation.
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Negishi-ryū is a Japanese school of blade-throwing and, according to the sources, the last surviving school for which shurikenjutsu is the main subject, not a supplement. It was founded by Negishi Shorei in the mid-eighteen-fifties. He did not start from nothing: he trained in Ganritsu-ryū, the oldest documented school of blade-throwing, dating from around 1625, and adapted its technique. He enlarged the body of the blade to give it more weight and penetrating power, but kept the octagonal head. The school works with the so-called bō-shuriken, a blade shaped like a nail rather than the star shape popular culture associates with Japan. It is thrown by the jiki-daho method, a straight flight without rotation, from a distance of roughly two to twelve meters. Therein lies the whole difficulty of the discipline: a blade without rotation must land point first, and because the number of turns cannot be balanced out, both the grip and the release change with every distance. The lineage ran from the founder through Tonegawa Magoroku, Naruse Kanji, Maeda Isamu, Saitō Satoshi, and Tomabechi Yoshimi to Hayasaka Yoshifumi. Naruse Kanji, third in line, also revived Shirai-ryū and passed it on as part of Negishi-ryū; it is therefore not an independent lineage today but an internal tradition of this school. Throwing blades was, during the Edo period, a privilege reserved for advanced students who had already mastered the main curriculum of their own school.
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