Abe ryu
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, also known as is a Japanese sword fighting school founded by 安倍頼任 in the 17th century. He was trained in Taisha-ryū, an offshoot of Shinkage-ryū
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The school is well known as the first major school to use the name kendō. According to Ueno, Abe-ryū was the first sword fighting school to call what they taught kendō rather than kenjutsu although the term had appeared earlier than that. There is no direct connection between this usage of the word kendō and the kendō promoted after the Meiji Restoration
, it was just one of many names used for sword training in that period.
Shinkage-ryu
' meaning "new shadow school", is a traditional school of Japanese martial arts, founded by Kamiizumi Ise-no-Kami Nobutsuna in the mid-sixteenth century...
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The school is well known as the first major school to use the name kendō. According to Ueno, Abe-ryū was the first sword fighting school to call what they taught kendō rather than kenjutsu although the term had appeared earlier than that. There is no direct connection between this usage of the word kendō and the kendō promoted after the Meiji Restoration
Meiji Restoration
The , also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution, Reform or Renewal, was a chain of events that restored imperial rule to Japan in 1868...
, it was just one of many names used for sword training in that period.