“Tiger Scrolls” and “True Swords” – The Cultural Semantics of Tora no Maki and Shinken in Japanese Martial Arts
By contrast with the relatively well-charted “mainstream” koryū—such as Shinkage-ryū (新陰流), Ittō-ryū (一刀流), or the strands of jujutsu (Kito Ryu , Tenshin Shinyo Ryu) that fed directly into the formation of modern…