10 - Kobo Jutsu




The Kobujutsu is the art that embodies the assembly of weapons studied in the old practices of war. Known at present as Kobudo (road of the weapons), by the arts that compose the Gendai Budo, in determined regions was the reference for all the weapons that did not be part of the noble class of the daisho (whose literal translation, from the kanji "ooki" or "give", signifies "big" and "sho" or "chisai", "small"), composed by the Katana, Wakizashi, Aikuchi or so much.




Like this, in some regions the Bo, the Jo, to Yari, to Naginata, Leave, the Jutte (sort of tridente), to Tonfa (sort of cacetete), the Kama (sort of scythe utilized for cut rice) between other, were classified similarly as breaks integral of the Kobujutsu.




In determined arts, as the aikido, karate of the between other, everything what refers to technical that utilize some sort of weapon is called of Kobujutsu, that would be able to to be translated by the kanji used like reference, like "art of the old war". "Ko" signifies old, "bu", war and "jutsu", art.




Inside the classical arts that conserve the concept Koryu, the Kobujutsu is the term that refers the weapons of unlike characteristics them utilized by the samurais.




The majority of these weapons was lent of the farmers and rebellious that, in consequence of the period of hunting to the swords, improvised agricultural appliances as weapons of defense, like is the case of the tonfa, nunchaku etc. Such weapons afterwards passed it be part of the curriculum of determined schools.





In the present time, the information about the Kobujutsu are very vast, having several versions and analyses that do not establish a true and unique one.




Some they affirm that the Kobujutsu arose in Okinawa; others, by the own evolution of the wars. Others attribute to the Chinese influence. The western books that initially tried the Kobujutsu cited barely some weapons, that stayed acquaintances by the westerners and years afterwards became protagonists of the Kobujutsu, however many other were utilized in the period Tokugawa and Meiji.




The tessen, or gunsen (fan of iron), ono (sort of axe) and the kiseru (pipe) healthy some of them.