Research Projects
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☰ Koryū
Analysis of the history and texts of several koryū — especially Shinkage-ryū and Kashima-area traditions — including close readings of their densho.
☰ Kin-gendai
Kin-gendai (近現代; "modern and contemporary") refers to post-Tokugawa periods of Japanese history (i.e., Meiji, Taishō, Shōwa and onward). Changing social mores, nationalist politics, competitive and sportive aspects and how some of these arts flourished in modernity.
☰ Shugendō
Mountain Shugendō and Japanese esoteric Buddhism. Their influence on classical martial traditions.
☰ The Kōbusho
The late-Tokugawa shogunal martial academy (1856–1867), where instructors of Jikishinkage-ryū, Shingyōtō-ryū, Tamiya-ryū and other schools taught swordsmanship, spear and jūjutsu side by side — with biographical sketches of its kenshi, the schools they came from, and the bakumatsu corps they later founded or joined.
☰ Neijia [內家]
Chinese internal martial arts — Tàijíquán, Bāguàzhǎng and Xíngyìquán — their classics, training, and Taoist/neigong foundations.