My habit is never to meet a knowledgeable teacher without having a good question in mind, just in case I am given the opportunity to ask. Rumiko and I traveled to the city of Tajimi municipal dojo for a demonstration of Yagyu Shinkage Ryu sword by Mouri Keisuke and his small group of students on the morning of September 11, 2011. As I walked in the dojo, my question that morning was, “Does anybody still teach old-style tachi battlefield sword technique, or only stylized formal modern methods that make up sword training in Japan today?” What I learned in the 1970s as old-time ninja combat methods and now teach in
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