ryū
English
Noun
ryū (plural ryū or ryūs)
- Alternative form of ryu.
- 1987, Asian Music, volume 19, New York, N.Y.: Society for Asian Music, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 77:
- Rather than being separated by ryū affiliation, performers are being separated into those who can and those who cannot read staff notation.
- 2013, Ellis Amdur, “Tenshinshō-den Katori Shintō-ryū”, in Old School: Essays on Japanese Martial Traditions, 2nd edition, Wheaton, Ill.: Freelance Academy Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Something Once New), page 32:
- Moreover, innumerable clans had their own martial practices that were not codified in the manner of martial ryū as is generally conceived; […]
- 2019, Angus MacM. Hodgson, chapter 1, in The Omega Project, book 3 (The Path of War), Indianapolis, Ind.: Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 34:
- Add in to that, some ryūs also taught how to parry and counterattack against swords and spears by somebody only armed with a knife or short stick.
Japanese
Romanization
ryū