SENPAI / KOHAI

The terms Senpai and Kohai are definitions used in Japanese culture to describe seniority based status relationships. These classifications are similar to the way in which a family may create a system of rank or seniority based upon age.

The term Senpai can be roughly translated into the English language as a mentor while the term Kohai is roughly the equivelent of a protégé.

In the Dojo the Senpai / Kohai relationship is most often based on who has been training the longest or who has the most experience and knowledge, regardless of physical skills. The Senpai has the responsibilities for the development and advancement of the Kohai and the Kohai has the responsibilities for tending to the needs of the senior members. Anyone who is higher in ranking is a Senpai and anyone of a lower ranking is Kohai.

The relationship between Senpai and Kohai is regulated by a system of rights and responsibilities known as Mibun. The term Mibun describes the rules or legal sanction through which caste / rank / or seniority is governed.

The Mibun system restricts the ingenuity and actions of the Kohai but also creates a system of codependence and a share of responsibilities between Senpai and Kohai.

Many scholars attribute the collapse of Japan’s Warrior Class in the 1800’s because of the collapse of this ancient system Hokensei during and after the Meiji Restoration.

AUG/SEPT/OCT 2010 BUJINKAN KENJUTSU

BUJINKAN CORNWALL

             KUKISHINDEN RYU KENJUTSU                  

(Course notes for August – September - October 2010)

KAMAE

• Dai Jodan no Kamae
• Chudan no Kamae
• Gedan no Kamae
• Ura Gedan no Kamae
• Ichi no Kamae
• Tenchi Hasso no Kamae
• Kasumi no Kamae
• Totoku Hyoshi no Kamae

KIRI

• Tsuki Kiri
• Kesa Kiri
• Kiri Age
• Kiri Sage
• Otoshi Kiri
• Yoko Kiri
• Gyaku Kesa Kiri
• Nuki Kiri

KENJUTSU GATA

• Tsukikomi
• Tsukigake
• Kiriage
• Kirisage
• Kasugaidome
• Kochogaeshi
• Shiho giri
• Happo giri
• Tsuki no Wa

NOTE: To all Bujinkan Cornwall members (both club members and existing private students) personal tuition in these subjects is available, if applicable at your level of training.

See http://www.bujinkancornwall.co.uk/private-tuition for more details

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SANSHIN NO KATA

The Sanshin no Kata is a special form of Kuden (Orally transmitted teaching) which primarily teaches natural movement in the specific form of the Gyokko Ryu Kosshijutsu which is the primary school of unarmed combat taught within the Bujinkan fighting system. This “special form of Kuden” was taught only to Hatsumi Sensei by Takamatsu Sensei and represents the basis of all the Taijutsu.

Sanshin no kata

• Chi no kata
• Sui no kata
• Ka no kata
• Fu no kata
• Ku no kata

* All the “kata” , and their movements, will be explained during your training.

KIHON HAPPO

The “Kihon Happo” can be translated as “Basic Eight Ways” and is the core of the Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu hand to hand fighting system. Through these “eight ways” or “eight paths” are the keys to understanding the real essence of Taijutsu.

Kosshi Kihon Sanpo

• Ichimonji No Kata
• Hicho No Kata
• Jumonji No Kamae

Torite Kihon Gata

• Omote Gyaku
• Omote Gyaku Tsuki
• Ura Gyaku
• Musha Dori - Ude Jime Ashi Ori Gata
• Ganseki Nage
• Oni-kudaki or Omote Gyaku Ken Sabaki Gata
• Ura Kote Gyaku

* All the “Kata” mentioned above, in the Japanese language, will be examined and explained within your training.

HIGHER AWARENESS

People are energy, where the focus if attention travels ones energy and mind goes. To have all energy available to you without depending on other people to make you feel good and energised one has to be present. Here and now, and not having your mind occupied in the past and future or keeping it busy with expectations based on how you see the world. Everything that is ‘on your mind’ is blocking flow and awareness. To increase awareness the holistic and integral self study programme of Holigral International (Bartholomeus’s company) assists a person to raise their awareness by self examining their expectations and updating previously formed patterns of being. It addresses your habits, solves problems, gives insight in how you are in relationships, and enables you to build a new way of being with more flow. It gives you the tools to deal with ‘undesired’ experiences fast and it increases the joy of all ‘desired’ experiences.

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KEN DO

For years I forged my spirit through the
study of swordsmanship, confronting
every challenge steadfastly. The walls
surrounding me suddenly crumbled. Like
pure dew reflecting the world in crystal
clarity, total awakening has now come.

Yamaoka Tesshu, of Muto Ryu

KEN DO

The Way of the Sword and the Way of
Zen are identical, for they have the
same purpose - that of killing the ego.

Yamada Jirokichi, Jikishinkage Ryu

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KUDEN

“Knowledge obstructs you from being a human being”

Masaaki Hatsumi Soke

KOKORO NO KAMAE

Kokoro no kamae can be translated into “posture of the heart” or “make a resolution”, or “mental preperation”.

The methodology of the kokoro no kamae is the relationship between the inner workings of the mind and the physical application of movement or taijutsu.

It is not a mental or intellectual methodology it is a practical one and therefore can only be felt and then realised through your taijutsu via the correlation of various kamae.