Toyama Ryu Battodo - Nakamura Tomoko - 2019 Asakusa Kobudo Taikai

Subscribe to our channel: School: Toyama Ryū Battōdō Event: 2019 Asakusa Kobudō Taikai Date: 20/04/2019 Venue: Taitō Riverside Sports Center Founder: Nakamura Taizaburo Current representative: Nakamura Tomoko (Sōke 2th generation) -- PRESENTATION: TOYAMA RYŪ BATTŌDŌ -- Toyama Ryū Battōdō was created in 1925, from the urge to teach military officers of the Imperial Japanese Army the basics of sword-drawing and cutting techniques. It was part of the curriculum of the Rikugun Toyama Gakkō, a military academy of that time. The practice was established by selecting five out of the sword techniques of many ancient schools, which were then simplified in order to make them easier to understand. Real “Tameshigiri” cutting training was also added. Those techniques are all fundamentally performed standing. After World War II, the Imperial Army dis