Mizoguchi-ha Itto-ryu Kenjutsu - 42nd Japanese Kobudo Demonstration (2019)

Naganuma Noriaki Sensei and his students demonstrating Mizoguchi Haito-ryu Kenjutsu during the 42nd Nihon Kobudo Embutaikai held at the Nippon Budokan on February 3rd, 2019. The event also commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Nihon Kobudo Kyokai. Mizoguchi-ha Itto-ryu Kenjutsu was founded in the early Edo period (ca. 1630) by Mizoguchi Jingozaemon Masanori, who was a student of Ono-ha Itto-ryu’s second grand master, Ono Jiroemon Tadatsune. The curriculum of the school consists of five long sword techn