11 - Kabuto no Bujutsu




It is a significant discipline of the Bugei, that represents the form and the reality of the war.

Kakuto signifies "fight, seize, fight"; and Bujutsu, "art of war". It was defined, subsequently, by the masters as to "art of war come back to the reality".




Since the origins, the techniques of war possess a very unlike vision the situations lived inside the theories and practices of a dojô, by that the traditional schools guard, in a curriculum named "Okuden", the application and real forms.

The Kakuto in the Bujutsu had his ascent mainly in the was Tokugawa, when the wars and conflicts were more constant.




The psychological formation provided by the Kakuto in the Bujutsu enables to the practitioner a perception of the reality of war, that is differentiated of the practical one driven by a professor, instructor or main.

The traditional form directed for ends of the reality of war I included the utilization of any object that is available in a battle. Being like this, the war not possuía rules neither commandments that required that went utilized these or those weapons.




Among the most famous names, if finds Takuji Sato, that lived in the end of the was Tokugawa, exactly in the period of transition with the was Meiji, that would restore years afterwards the arts of Koryu transforming them in Gendai Budo, that is a more appropriate form for the education, and not for the war.

Believes-itself that only the lineages holders of the determined arts Koryu is that still possess such matter.




The Bujutsu, of general form, always worried about the reality lived in his teachings, and perhaps that be the most appropriate way of explain the creation of so many Ryu, since to each day the training be performed and taught of unlike way the initial form.

Some schools opted for teach the immutable, traditional form, and subsequently were recognized by the maintenance of the tradition and culture.




Other they preferred to teach the Kakuto in the Bujutsu of free way and vivencial.

Of a form or of another one, healthy few the schools and styles that still worry about that matter, that has forms of very peculiar teaching and characteristics, being easy for a master perceive some fraud or somewhat similar.

However much it have evolved, the methodology applied in the Kakuto in the Bujutsu still is to same of its origin.