is the art of using the Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese weapon kusarigama

Kusarigama

The is a traditional Japanese weapon that consists of a kama on a metal chain with a heavy iron weight at the end. The kusarigama is said to have developed during the Muromachi period...

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Kusarigamajutsu is featured in several separate martial arts such as Koga Ha Kurokawa Ryū Heiho Ninjutsu, Suio Ryū and Shintō Musō-ryū

Shinto Muso-ryu

, most commonly known by its practice of jōdō, is a traditional school of the Japanese martial art of jōjutsu, or the art of wielding the short staff . The technical purpose of the art is to learn how to defeat a swordsman in combat using the jō, with an emphasis on proper combative distance,...

. The kusarigama is made up of three parts: the kama

Kama (weapon)

The is a traditional Filipino and Japanese farming implement similar to a small scythe used for reaping crops and also employed as a weapon...

(a wooden handle with a curved blade (traditionally straight) protruding at a right-angle on one end, and a small loop at the other), and the kusari (a chain attached to the kama) and a weight at the end of the chain. In a confrontation the kusari is swung in wide sweeping arcs to distract/entangle the opponent and the Kama is used to deliver a fatal strike.

See also

• Araki-ryu - Koryū that includes the use of the kusarigama
• Suiō-ryū - Koryū that includes the use of the kusarigama
• Toda-ha Bukō-ryū
  Toda-ha Buko-ryu
  is a Japanese koryū martial art founded in the late Muromachi period ca 1560 by .The ryū contains an extensive curriculum of weapon-arts including naginatajutsu , sōjutsu, bōjutsu kenjutsu and kusarigamajutsu....
  
   - Koryū that includes the use of the kusarigama
• Isshin-ryū kusarigamajutsu
  Isshin-ryu kusarigamajutsu
  is a traditional school of the Japanese martial art of kusarigamajutsu, the art of using the chain and scythe . Its exact origin is disputed, and may have been founded as early as the 14th century by the samurai Nen Ami Jion 念阿弥慈恩 , but the modern-day techniques were compiled and incorporated no...
  
   - School of kusarigamajutsu found in Shintō Musō-ryū
• Tendō-ryū kusarigamajutsu
  Tendo-ryu
  Tendo-ryu may refer to:* Tendo-ryu bujutsu, a bujutsu koryu specializing in the use of the naginata* An aikido style founded by Kenji Shimizu* The style of "Anything-Goes Martial Arts" practiced by the Tendo family in the anime/manga series Ranma ½...
  
  - School of kusarigamajutsu found in Tendō-ryū bujutsu

Sources

• Pascal Krieger: Jodô - la voie du bâton / The way of the stick (bilingual French/English), Geneva (CH) 1989, ISBN 2-9503214-0-2