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==History==

==History==

While it could be said that ''kenjutsu'' has been around as long as the sword, by the 10th century we see evidence that there may be identifiable styles, or at least that the style of an individual swordsman might be identified as different from that of another.<ref>Friday, Karl (1997), ''Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture'', University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, HI. pp 2.  An anecdote from a translation of "How the Former Governor of Mutsu, Tachibana Norimitsu, Cut Down Some Men".</ref>  By the [[Japanese Eras|Edo Period]], kenjutsu techniques were handed down through schools, or ryuha, which were often regulated by the shogunate and local lords.<ref>Friday 1997 p 18</ref> In addition, during the [[Japanese Eras|Edo Period]] and the periods just prior, techniques began to focus more on unarmored combat.<ref>Friday 1997 p 15</ref>

While it could be said that ''kenjutsu'' has been around as long as the sword, by the 10th century we see evidence that there may be identifiable styles, or at least that the style of an individual swordsman might be identified as different from that of another.<ref>Friday 1997 p 2--An anecdote from a translation of "How the Former Governor of Mutsu, Tachibana Norimitsu, Cut Down Some Men".</ref>  By the [[Japanese Eras|Edo Period]], kenjutsu techniques were handed down through schools, or ryuha, which were often regulated by the shogunate and local lords.  In addition, during the [[Japanese Eras|Edo Period]] and the periods just prior, techniques began to focus more on unarmored combat.

==Difference between "Do" and "Jutsu"==

==Difference between ''kenjutsu'' and ''battojutsu''==

 

Generally a "''-do''" suffixed art, having only come about within the last century and a half, lends itself toward more of a philosophical/meditative curriculum.  Conversely "''-jutsu''" suffixed arts tend to focus more on the technique and its combative application.<ref name="Source Needed">Source needed.</ref>

==Difference between ''kenjutsu'' and ''battojutsu''==

People often distinguish between ''kenjutsu'' and ''[[battojutsu]]'' (or ''[[iaijutsu]]'').  In some martial tradtitions, the difference between ''kenjutsu'' and ''battojutsu'' has to do with whether or not the sword is drawn or not.  In those cases, ''kenjutsu'' techniques deal exclusively with the sword being already drawn from the ''saya'', or scabbard, while ''battojutsu'' techniques are concerned with drawing the sword and attacking from the saya.  More technically, ''battojutsu'' (literally 'sword drawing', 抜刀術) techniques are a subset of ''kenjutsu'' (剣術) techniques.

The most basic difference between ''kenjutsu'' and ''[[battojutsu]]'' lies in the swords relationship to the ''saya.''  ''Kenjutsu'' techniques deal exclusively with the sword being already drawn from the ''saya''<ref name="Source Needed"/> as the combative situation would have dictated during the war times of the [[Sengoku period]] and earlier.  ''Battojutsu,'' having only come about at the very end of the Sengoku and the beginning of the [[Edo period]]<ref name="Source Needed"/> deals with the sword from a sheathed position and contains the [[battojutsu]] techniques for simultaneous drawing and cutting, techniques which lend themselves toward unanticipated small-scale encounters such as would happen during the "peaceful" times of the Edo period.

*Friday, Karl (1997), ''Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture'', University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, HI.

==Footnotes==

==Footnotes==

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