Japanese Sword Training Kata

It should come as no big surprise that free sparring with live

blades is not a part of Japanese sword training, though at the

highest levels, Masters perform partnered exercises with razor

sharp Shinken.

In Kenjutsu, once the basic Kata have been ‘mastered’ to a high

level, high level students may begin introducing additional

techniques into their partnered Japanese sword training Kata

which can become so fluid it is, for all intents and purposes, free

sparring.

Within some schools, free sparring is developed with heavily

padded bokken known as fukuro shinai. However, the style of

Japanese sword techniques that truly specializes in free sparring

is Kendo.

Below is a fight scene where they use a bokken and other weapons;

This fight scene was from the movie Ame Agaru or After the Rain

or 雨あがる.

According to movie dialogue and end credits, the swordplay is

Mugai Ryu Iaido.Choreographers of sword are Okamoto

Yoshiharu and Nakamura Hiroshi. Fight choreographer is

Otake Ritsuke.