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In many arts operating within the ''iemoto'' system, there is little flexibility or freedom for practitioners to deviate from the styles, techniques, or forms handed down from above (i.e. from the master, or the ''iemoto''). Within a given school, the system of training, and of progression, is typically highly codified, with many arts holding secret teachings which are only made known to those adepts who have trained long enough to achieve a particular level within the hierarchy.
In many arts operating within the ''iemoto'' system, there is little flexibility or freedom for practitioners to deviate from the styles, techniques, or forms handed down from above (i.e. from the master, or the ''iemoto''). Within a given school, the system of training, and of progression, is typically highly codified, with many arts holding secret teachings which are only made known to those adepts who have trained long enough to achieve a particular level within the hierarchy.
The [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] did not traditionally have an ''iemoto'' system, but many traditional Ryukyuan arts came to incorporate the ''iemoto'' system in the [[Meiji period]]. While there are those who now consider this a part of the tradition of their school, or of Okinawan arts more generally, there are those who are working to reject or undo the imposition of the ''iemoto'' system into Okinawan arts.
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