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Kōbusho

講武所
categoryMilitary
calendar_month1856 – 1866
location_onEdo Japan

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)

  • location_onEdo Japan
    warning No sources cited

Instructors (2)

  • Sakakibara Kenkichi
    Head instructor
    1858
    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 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
  • Sakakibara Kenkichi
    Instructor
    1856 – 1858
    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 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 info

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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.
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@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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