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2025年5月20日

What’s Weird About Japanese Budo & Bujutsu Culture Abroad?

Text by Osano Jun(International Suigetsujuku Bujutsu Association) Introduction It has been over thirty years s […]

2025年2月14日

Yagyu Shinkage-ryu: In the Shadow of the Sword

Text by Grigoris Miliaresis I don’t remember where I heard this story -and it’s probably apocryphal since I ha […]

2024年12月5日

Tetsuzan Kuroda – Living Proof of Possibility

“The Theories of Kuroda Tetsuzan” – An Esoteric Perspective – What did Master Tetsuzan Kuroda, one […]

2024年9月11日

A SHORT HISTORY OF KENDO IN ITALY

Text by Claudio Regoli Italian fencing master against Japanese swordsmanship in 1900 The first visit of […]

2024年9月5日

THE 19TH KENDO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN MILANO

Text by Claudio Regoli After an interval of 6 years, due to pandemics, the 19th Kendo world Championships took […]

2024年5月17日

Budo library: “The Secrets of Itto-ryu” and “Unravelling the Cords” in English

Bunbu, the balance between martial arts and literary arts, has been one of the ideals of Japanese martial arts […]

2024年3月21日

Principles of Budo: Ono-ha Ittō-ryū

Author: Hiden Staff　Translator: Mark Hague Go Straight in to Go Straight in The photo on the left shows the fi […]

2023年12月11日

The common thread between police kendo and Itto-ryu, tied to the rigors of real-world duty

Text: Satoshi Tatewaki Translation: Grigoris Miliaresis Still living within kendo, Itto-ryu’s Kiriotoshi: The […]

2023年12月1日

Gekiken – A bridge between old kenjutsu and modern sport Kendō

Text by Sandro Fruzi Searching for samurai sword Twenty-five years ago, when I first decided to learn the way […]

2023年10月30日

Shinkage-ryu Hyoho practiced in Poland

It was three years ago. I heard from a member of the Warsaw branch of our Gyakute-do, where I teach, that ther […]

2023年10月19日

Sword saints past and present: a visit to Shinto Munen-ryu’s Yushinkan

Text by Grigoris Miliaresis “So, do you want to be deceived?” asked the teacher the student that stood […]

2023年8月14日

Three days of budo in Kyoto: Kyoto Taikai and Shimogamo Jinja koryu enbu

Text and photographs by Grigoris Miliaresis Three days of budo in Kyoto: Kyoto Taikai and Shimogamo Jinja kory […]

2023年6月20日

Budo tourism: what do the budoka think? A conversation between Lance Gatling, Sandro Furzi and Michael Reinhardt

text by Grigoris Miliaresis We had started working on the subject of budo tourism at the time when the Covid p […]

2023年6月14日

You want koryu? Come to Japan –or not! A Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report Review

Text by Grigoris Miliaresis Things to do in a pandemic It started in the spring of 2020 as a reaction to Covi […]

2023年4月28日

【AIKI Web Course Part 1】Knowledge of AIKI Series 6「How AIKI Works」

In the previous Series 1, I already defined AIKI as the following. “The human brain has an OS (operation syste […]

2023年4月22日

【AIKI Web Course Part 1】Knowledge of AIKI Series 5「Ryu-ha derived from Daito-ryu」

１.Aikido As already explained in Lecture 4, Aikido is a Budo that was developed by Morihei UESHIBA, who learne […]

2023年4月21日

Hozoin-ryu: Thrust like a spear, sweep like a naginata, reap like a sickle

Text and Photos by Grigoris Miliaresis It started with a book; in the pre-Internet 1990s most th […]

2023年4月19日

46th Nihon Kobudo Taikai Here we go again: what a difference several years make

Text and photos by Grigoris Miliaresis We started talking about it with my “Hiden” colleagues after the event […]

2023年4月14日

An Interview with Manaka Unsui, Founder of the Jissen Kobudo Jinenkan

In this interview, I speak with Manaka Unsui, founder of the Jissen Kobudo Jinenkan. As he enters his retireme […]

2023年4月5日

The Path of Musashi By Antony Cummins

I am attempting to walk the same path as Miyamoto Musashi. Not the ethical path of his philosophy as outlined […]

2023年3月14日

[Monthly column] Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report Vol. 30 Ono-ha itto-ryu & Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu (Kodokai) in Los Angeles, California, USA

Interview and text by Grigoris Miliaresis The 30th part of the Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report visits the Nichiget […]

2023年2月17日

I was wrong about kendo: thoughts on Japan’s most emblematic budo–70th All-Japan Kendo Championship

Text by Grigoris Miliaresis I was wrong about kendo: thoughts on Japan’s most emblematic budo The idea that to […]

2023年2月14日

[Monthly column] Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report Vol. 29 Shinto Muso-ryu in Ithaca, New York, USA

Interview and text by Grigoris Miliaresis In this 29th and penultimate edition, the Worldwide Koryu Dojo Repor […]

2022年11月14日

[Monthly column] Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report Vol. 26 Araki-ryu in Athens, Greece

Interview and text by Grigoris Miliaresis For its 26th installment, the Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report visits Gre […]

2022年10月14日

[Monthly column] Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report Vol.25 Shinto Muso Ryu Jo & Shinto Hatakage Ryu Iai Heiho in Trenton, Michigan, USA

Interview and text by Grigoris Miliaresis The 25th installment of the Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report has a specia […]

2022年9月14日

[Monthly column] Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report Vol.24 Hyoho Niten Ichi-ryu in Fulda, Germany

Interview and text by Grigoris Miliaresis In volume 24 of the Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report, we visit Fulda, a c […]

2022年7月14日

[Monthly column] Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report Vol.22 Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu in Germany

Interview and text by Grigoris Miliaresis The representative of the historical Sugino Dojo of Tenshin Shoden K […]

2022年6月3日

[Readers report]“５ Japanese Words often Misunderstood in Martial Arts”

Texy by Timothy Johnston 1) REI(礼) Real Meaning: Respect Misunderstood meaning: Bow One of the most importan […]

2022年5月14日

[Monthly column] Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report Vol.20 Hontai Yoshin-ryu in Belgium, Brussels

Interview and text by Grigoris Miliaresis For this 20th part of the Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report we go to the c […]

2022年4月14日

[Monthly column] Worldwide Koryu Dojo Report Vol.19 Tennen Rishin-ryu in Michigan, USA

Interview and text by Grigoris Miliaresis Contrary to other dojo/group leaders we have featured in the Worldwi […]

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