Description
Military academy of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, founded in 1856 to train
shogunal retainers and closed in 1866. At its height it employed over five
hundred instructors of kenjutsu, sōjutsu and kyūjutsu, more than two-thirds of
them teaching sword or spear. It would grant a rank on merit to a fencer who
defeated a ranked opponent from an established school, and barred masters not of
warrior stock from its posts.
Locations (1)
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location_onEdo
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Instructors (2)
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person
Sakakibara Kenkichi
Head instructor
1858
Probable
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reviewsPeer-reviewed
“In March of that year, Ōtani recommended that his protégé be appointed as one
of the assistant instructors at the Kōbusho. He became a head instructor in
1858.”
— Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of
the Swordlink
info
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person
Sakakibara Kenkichi
Instructor
1856 – 1858
Probable
fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
1 source
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reviewsPeer-reviewed
“In March of that year, Ōtani recommended that his protégé be appointed as one
of the assistant instructors at the Kōbusho. He became a head instructor in
1858.”
— Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of
the Swordlink
info
Tags
kenjutsu · kobusho · japan
Sources
reviewsPeer-reviewed
“In 1856, prior to the restoration, the shogunate had attempted to strengthen
its defensive capabilities by establishing the Kōbusho [...], a military academy
that was based on maintaining traditional values of civil and martial arts
(bun-bu).”
— Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of
the Swordlink
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Kōbusho. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage
Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M377JZDNVBAMXT39ZSQRWNBW - CC BY-SA 4.0.
Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
BibTeX
@incollection{martialis_01M377JZDNVBAMXT39ZSQRWNBW, author = {Muñoz, Frederico},
title = {Kōbusho}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year
= {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url =
{https://martial.is/entity/01M377JZDNVBAMXT39ZSQRWNBW}, urldate =
{ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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