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Dai-Nippon Butokukai Seitei Kenjutsu Kata Committee

大日本武徳会制定剣術形委員会
categoryCommittee
calendar_month1906-05-07 – 1906-08-13 · Defunct
location_onKyoto Japan

Description

First Dai Nippon Butokukai committee to standardise kenjutsu kata for schools, chaired by Watanabe Noboru. Seven kenjutsu experts holding the title of hanshi were appointed on 7 May 1906, joined in July by seven younger experts holding kyōshi. It produced the three-form Dai-Nippon Butokukai Seitei Kenjutsu Kata, presented to the Butokukai president on 13 August 1906 and poorly received. The ten-form Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kenjutsu Kata of 1911-12 superseded it.

Founded

1906-05-07
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reviewsPeer-reviewed
“The committee was appointed on May 7 and consisted of Watanabe and six other kenjutsu experts from various ryūha, all of whom were recipients of the Butokukai's honorary title of hanshi, the highest honor awarded to outstanding martial artists.”
— Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of the Swordlink info

Affiliations (1)

  • corporate_fareBranch ofGreater Japan Martial Virtue Society Probable
    Probable
    Constituted by the Butokukai and reporting to its president, who received the finished kata.
    The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
    1906
    fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
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    fact_check
    Constituted by the Butokukai and reporting to its president, who received the finished kata.
    reviewsPeer-reviewed
    “In 1906, Watanabe Noboru (1838-1913) chaired the first Butokukai committee tasked with formulating a set of generic kata for disseminating standardized kenjutsu in schools nationwide.”
    — Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of the Swordlink info

Officers (2)

  • Watanabe Noboru
    Chair
    1906
    Probable
    Probable
    One authored history.
    The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
    fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
    1 source expand_more
    fact_check
    One authored history.
    reviewsPeer-reviewed
    “In 1906, Watanabe Noboru (1838-1913) chaired the first Butokukai committee tasked with formulating a set of generic kata for disseminating standardized kenjutsu in schools nationwide.”
    — Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of the Swordlink info
  • Negishi Shingorō
    Committee member
    1906

    Bennett names him only as the committee's internal dissenter, not in a membership list. Probable

    Probable
    One authored history.
    The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
    fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
    1 source expand_more
    fact_check
    One authored history.
    reviewsPeer-reviewed
    “Due to such hostility toward the kata—especially from one member of the committee itself, a somewhat sullen Negishi Shingorō (1844-1913)—they were not widely circulated.”
    — Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of the Swordlink info

Locations (1)

  • location_onKyoto Japan
    warning No sources cited

Dissolution

Defunct1906-08-13
Completed its mandate when the three-form kata was presented to the Butokukai president.
fact_check1 source expand_more
reviewsPeer-reviewed
“The results were presented to the president of the Butokukai on August 13, 1906.”
— Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of the Swordlink info

Tags

kendo · kata · butokukai

Sources

reviewsPeer-reviewed
“The committee had crafted a set of kata they called the Dai-Nippon Butokukai Seitei Kenjutsu Kata. It was comprised of three forms: jōdan (heaven), chūdan (earth), and gedan (man).”
— Bennett, Alexander C.. (2015). Kendo: Culture of the Swordlink info

Cite and reuse

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Dai-Nippon Butokukai Seitei Kenjutsu Kata Committee. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M377JZDN8THA45FQJXJKZT8P - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01M377JZDN8THA45FQJXJKZT8P, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Dai-Nippon Butokukai Seitei Kenjutsu Kata Committee}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M377JZDN8THA45FQJXJKZT8P}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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