{"id":1286,"date":"2013-05-10T16:58:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T23:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2013-05-11T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T21:37:10","slug":"japanese-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/japanese-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1287\" alt=\"Japanese Sword\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-268x268.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-480x479.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/page-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have three Japanese swords in my house, because my father used to be Jigen-ryu master.<br \/>\nJigen-ryu is a traditional school of Japanese martial arts founded in the late 16th century by Togo Chui (1561-1643) in Satsuma Province, now Kagoshima prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.<br \/>\nIt focuses mainly on the art of swordsmanship. The two different characters for gen are variants with the same meaning: &#8220;reality&#8221;.<br \/>\nJigen-ryu is known for its emphasis on the first strike: Jigen-ryu defines that a second strike to opponent is not even considered.<br \/>\nThe basic technique is to hold the sword in a high version of \u201chasso-no-kamae\u201d called \u201ctonbo-no-kamae\u201d, with the sword held vertically above the right shoulder.<br \/>\nThe attack is then done by running forward at your opponent and then cutting diagonally down on their neck.<br \/>\nThe Kiai is a loud &#8220;Ei!&#8221;. The style is still taught at the Jigen-ryu practice hall in the city of Kagoshima. Currently, my uncle is teaching it in Kagoshima now.<br \/>\nI want a lot of people know about Jigen-ryu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have three Japanese swords in my house, because my father used to be Jigen-ryu master. Jigen-ryu is a traditional school of Japanese martial arts founded in the late 16th century by Togo Chui (1561-1643) in Satsuma Province, now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/japanese-sword\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}