09 - Tanto Jutsu




Tantojutsu or Art of the Knife (knife made under same standard of the Japanese swords) is basically divided in two forms:

So much - kind of knife used in the Japan

Aikuchi - kind of knife more bent used in the Japan

The art of the Tantojutsu also can be divided by age, being the forms more classical and Traditional cited like Koryu and the most modern forms, that already involve recent concepts (from the séc. XIX) cited like Kindai.




To practical of the Tantojutsu medieval


By it be part of the class of the Daisho, to so much always was studied like important discipline for the formation of a warrior or samurai. The knives, for the battle to a shorter distance than the sword, were utilized by its agility and capacity of harmonize with the most diverse angulaões and directions.

Inside the Kaze in the Ryu, or style of the wind, practiced by the Kyudoshin Bugei Kay Kan, descendant of the Ogawa Shizen Kay what mantém that Tradition already there is more of 400 years, the art of the so much one is sight under the prism of the reality and of the not fantasy, what it becomes a between the most meticulous and risky.

The art of the knife always had a special attention by the wealth of movements and studies of anatomy, for become the most efficient possible one the application of the techniques of battle with the knife.

Hiroshi Ogawa, Saiko Shidoshi responsible maximum by the Ogawa Shizen Kay, adapted the form of the Koryu Tantojutsu (classical forms) for the Kindai Tantojutsu (modern forms) of urban defenses (ShiHogo and ToshiHogo).


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"It to me Ah" is what do we name the notion of distance, the capacity of be situated before the adversary of way it obtain to better reaction defensive and better offensive action.

Very it practiced not only in the Tantojutsu, but in all the arts that compose the Bugei, the "it to me ah" can be had like the base for the battle, armed or disarmed.

In case of of the Tantojutsu, the depth of the studies of "it to me Ah" goes beyond the necessary one, since to so much is a weapon of extreme agility and harmony, that complicates a lot the comprehension of as be protected, defend or handle.




The comprehension of the "it to me Ah" goes beyond simply distance itself of the opponent, but treat-him as went a worthy visiting one, not permitting that his anger infects the its interior. The masters see in the "it to me ah" a tool for the battle, as some of the most valuable, and constantly manipulate him.

To the movements differed against the person, the despair of that the strike can reach the body is going to take a "safety margin", that represents ours own ruin. After it leave that the consequence took to count, we notice that we are distant the adversary, us putting handicapped persons of promote a following reaction, without that becomes apparent to the adversary.

To the study of the "it to me Ah", the lull and tranquility faced with to storm are the most important attributes for the following pace. A movement is launched and with the maximum subtlety occurs the detour, necessary barely for not to be reached, maintaining a distance of to an inch of the strike, that provides a favorable situation upon calling counterattack.