ryūha
English
Noun
ryūha (plural ryūha)
- Alternative form of ryuha.
- 1997, Karl F. Friday with Seki Humitake, “Introduction”, in Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryū and Samurai Martial Culture, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 5:
- But the fighting arts they had shaped and reshaped during their millennium-long existence continued to develop. Many traditional ryūha—the Kashima-Shinryū among them—carried on much as they had during the Tokugawa period.
- 1998, G. Cameron Hurst III, “The Martial and Other Japanese Arts”, in Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part III (Armed Martial Arts Today), page 177:
- Ideally, ryūha were based upon the long-standing principle that social relationships are bound by fictive kinship rules. Relationships between the ryūha head and his students tended to follow authority-intensive patron-client relationships.
- 2003, Serge Mol, “Tracing the history of weapons”, in Classical Weaponry of Japan: Special Weapons and Tactics of the Martial Arts, Tokyo; New York, N.Y.; London: Kodansha International, →ISBN, Introduction, page 12:
- One problem that arises when seeking the origins of weapons and trying to assign an inventor to them is that after the passage of so much time there is often no way of being absolutely certain, and accepted accounts of certain weapons, while fascinating, are not necessarily reliable. Moreover, anecdotes told in any ryūha that uses a particular weapon, although perhaps true to a certain extent, present a biased view.
- 2008, Stephen Turnbull, “Sensei and Students”, in The Samurai Swordsman: Master of War, North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 5 (Sword and Sensei), page 88, column 2:
- Some acquired a hereditary position with particular daimyō, while others maintained their own independent ryūha, and enjoyed the spectacle of swordsmen who were skilled in their own right begging to be allowed to be taken on as pupils.
Japanese
Romanization
ryūha