Timeline of Japanese Sword Texts |
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| Year |
Japanese
Era and world events |
Ryu
of interest |
Figure | Text |
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| -3500 |
Norte Chico cities in Peru,
height of Sumerian empire, 1st dynasty in Egypt |
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| -2500 |
Mid-Jomon
(first settlements), Mayan settlements, Sage Kings in China |
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| -1500 |
Olmec to -400, Amonhotep, Shang
dynasty in China |
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| -1000 |
Adena culture in North America,
mound builders to (-100) |
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| -750 |
first Mayan cities, Rome founded
-753, Celts to England |
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| -400 |
Moche, Paracas and Nazca to 800 |
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| -300 |
Yayoi | ||||
| -333 |
Alexander defeats Darius | ||||
| -100 |
Teotihuacan founded (Mexico),
Hopewell culture in North America |
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| 22 |
Han Dynasty |
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| 300 |
Kofun | ||||
| 306 |
Constantine the Great reunites
Roman Empire |
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| 383 |
Rome abandons Britain |
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| 495 |
Wessex founded |
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| 537 |
Arthur dies at Camlan |
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| 538 |
Asuka |
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| 607 |
First Japanese embassy to China |
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| 700 |
Amakuni Yasutsuna forges the first Nihonto (curved, single edged) in Yamato (legendary) |
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| 710 |
Nara | ||||
| 732 |
Charles Martel stops the Arab
conquest of Europe Tours and Poitiers. |
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| 765 |
Tibet invades China |
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| 771 |
Charlemagne sole rular of the
Franks |
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| 792 |
Viking era in Britain -
Lindisfarne raid |
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| 794 |
Heian | ||||
| 826-869 |
Arabs conquer Crete, sack Rome,
take Malta |
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| 900 |
Start of reconquest of Spain,
Maya move to Yucatan, Toltec in Mexico |
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| Rise of the Bushi, private bands not connected to the Ritsuryo army | |||||
| 960 |
Sung dynasty defeats Tatars |
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| 1000 |
Mississipian culture, Chahokia. |
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| 1016 |
King Canute crowned king of England,
Norway and Denmark |
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| 1045 |
El Cid born, Bushi in power in the eastern provinces | ||||
| 1066 |
Normans take England |
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| 1099 |
Crusaders take Jerusalem |
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| 1154 |
Thomas Becket becomes chanceller
to Henry II, |
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| 1156 |
Minamoto vs Taira |
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| 1162 |
Ogasawara Kyudo, Bajutsu |
Ogasawara Nagakiyo (1162-1242) |
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| 1185 |
Kamakura (Bushi government) |
Mounted Archery |
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| 1187 |
Saladin takes Jerusalem |
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| 1206 |
Ghengis Khan (d 1227) |
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| 1274 |
Kublai Khan invades Japan |
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| 1292 |
Ogasawara Reiho |
Ogasawara Sadamune (1292-1347 |
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| 1306 |
Robert Bruce King of Scots |
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| 1333 |
Kemmu |
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| 1336 |
Muromachi (Ashikaga) |
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| 1337 |
Start of 100 years war |
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| 1368 |
Ming defeat Yuan |
Nen Ryu |
Sōma Shiro Yoshimoto | ||
| Chujo Ryu (from Nen Ryu) |
Chujō Nagahide | ||||
| 1400 |
Incan empire to 1550 |
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| 1412 |
Joan of Arc born |
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| 1420 |
Treaty of Troyes |
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| 1427 |
Aztec Empire begins |
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| 1438 |
Incan Empire begins |
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| 1447 | Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu | Iizasa Ienao (c1387-c1488) | |||
| 1455 |
War of the Roses |
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| 1467 |
Sengoku Jidai | Rise of more specialized
Ryuha |
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| 1492 |
Columbus to America, |
Kage Ryu |
Aizu Ikōsai Hisatada (c1452–1538) | ||
| 1508 |
First bamboo practice sword
(fukuro shinai) |
Shinkage Ryu |
Kamiizumi Nobutsuna (c1508-c1572) |
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| 1509 |
Henry VII of England crowned |
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| 1532 |
Takenouchi Ryu |
Takenouchi Nakatsukasadaiyu
Hisamori |
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| 1546 |
Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu |
Hayashizaki Jinsuke Minamoto no
Shigenobu (c1546-1621) |
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| 1555 |
Japanese pirates beseige Nanking |
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| 1565 |
Seige of Malta by Turks |
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| 1568 |
Unification of Japan begins as
Nobunaga deposes shogunate |
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| 1575 |
Takeda defeated at Nagashino |
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| 1584 |
Niten Ichiryu |
Miyamoto Musashi (c1584–1645) | |||
| 1591 |
Nen Ryu to Maniwa Nen Ryu |
Higuchi Matashichiro | |||
| 1596 |
Hideyoshi invades Korea |
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| 1597 |
Second Spanish Armada wrecked |
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| 1600 |
Edo
(Tokugawa) |
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| 1615 |
Osaka castle and the end to war |
kyu ba ken so, emphasis on sword |
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| 1632 |
Shinkage Ryu |
Yagyu Munenori |
Heiho Kadensho |
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| 1639 |
Expulsion of all but the Dutch |
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| 1648 |
English Civil War, monarchy
restored 1661 |
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| 1645 |
Niten Ichiryu |
Miyamoto Musashi |
Go Rin no Sho written |
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| 1688 |
Genroku
(to 1703) licensing and certificates and flowery displays. |
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| 1697 | fall of last Mayan city | ||||
| 1716 |
Kyoho
(to 1745) Reforms toward a cash economy, frugality, western learning |
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| 1716 |
Hinatsu Shigetaka | Honcho Bugei Shoden | |||
| 1724 | Ogasawara Kyudo revived | Ogasawara Heibei Tsuneharu | |||
| 1787 |
Kansei
(to 1793) Government strengthening and less western learning |
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| 1793 |
Hokkushin Itto Ryu |
Chiba Shusaku (1793-1856) |
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| 1801 |
First 4-slat shinai |
Nakanishi-ha Itto Ryu |
Nakanishi Chuzo Tsugutate (died 1801) | Kenjutsu Rokujuhachi-te |
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| 1840 |
Anglo-chinese war |
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| 1841 |
Tempo
(to 1843) Frugality, less western learning, strengthen the government |
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| 1853 |
Bakumatsu begins, 750 schools of
sword since 1615. Prohibition on large scale warships lifted |
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| 1856 |
Kobusho academy (shinai centered) |
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| 1868 |
Meiji |
Keishicho Ryu (Tokyo Police) |
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| 1873 |
Public Kendo Shows Edict for conscription |
Gekken Kogyo |
Sakakibara Kenkichi (1830–1894) |
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| 1876 |
Sword Abolishment Act Toyama Gakko established |
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| 1877 |
Satsuma Rebellion and the Tokyo
Battotai sword group. |
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| 1882 |
Shumpukan dojo |
Yamaoka Tesshu (1836-1888) |
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| 1895 |
Dai Nippon Butokukai formed with
1800 members Sino-Japanese war (mostly over Korea) Zaibatsu power increased |
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| 1895 |
First modern olympics |
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| 1899 |
Nitobe Inazo |
Bushido published in English |
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| 1860-1900 |
track and field, gymnastics,
basketball, volleyball all invented or popular, bujutsu becomes more sporting (budo) |
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| 1902 |
Shogo titles first awarded by
DNBK |
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| 1905 |
DNBK has over a million members,
builds Butokuden in Kyoto, Russo-Japanese war |
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| 1906 |
Butokukai Seitei Kenjutsu Kata (3) formed and disliked | ||||
| 1909 |
Niten Ichiryu |
Miyamoto Musashi | Go Rin no Sho first published | ||
| 1910 |
Japan annexes Korea |
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| 1911 |
Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kendo Kata (7
and 3) formed, now called the Nippon Kendo Kata |
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| 1912 |
Taisho Budo as electives in schools Bujutsu Senmon Gakko founded by DNBK |
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| 1915 |
Takano Sasaburo |
Kendo |
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| Hayakawa Junzaburo |
Bujutsu Sosho (15 Tokugawa
kenjutsu treatises) |
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| 1919 |
Bujutsu Senmon Gakko renames
Gekken to Kendo |
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| 1921 |
Yamada Jirokichi |
Kendo Shugi (58 Tokugawa
kenjutsu books) |
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| 1924 |
Meiji Jingu national
championships in track and field, swimming, baseball, soccer,
basketball, volleyball Judo, kendo, kyudo and sumo but DNBK does not participate |
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| 1925 |
Jukendo from French Bayonet,
added to DNBK |
Yamada Jirokichi | Nihon Kendo-shi (history of
kendo) |
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| Shimokawa Ushio |
Kendo no Hattatsu (history of
kendo) |
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| 1926 |
Showa |
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| 1929 | Tenran budo taikai (3 refs and
match rules) competitors from colonys too (Taiwan and Korea) sportification of budo and Japanification (spiritualization) of baseball |
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| 1937 |
Second sino-japanese war |
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| 1938 |
National
mobilization |
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| 1942 |
jukendo and shageki-do added to
educational curriculum, budo compulsory in schools |
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| 1945 |
DNBK disbanded, budo banned |
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| 1946 |
ban on sumo and karate lifted |
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| 1949 |
All Japan Judo Federation formed |
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| 1950 |
Shinai Kyogi formed: court, fukuroshinai, time limit, points scoring, fencing uniform, | ||||
| 1952 |
Japan self rule shinai kyogi into schools AJKF formed "kendo as a sport and as physical education" |
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| 1954 |
shinai kyogi federation into AJFK |
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| 1957 |
School Kendo |
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| 1960s |
Ogasawara Reiho opened to the
public |
Ogasawara Tadamune |
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| 1964 |
Nippon Budokan (NB) built in
Tokyo Judo in olympics, Geesink wins open division |
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| 1966 |
Budo Gakuen (Nippon Budokan) |
Nihon Budo Zensho (7 volumes of
Edo texts) |
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| NB catalyses: Nippon Budo
Gakkai, Nippon Budo Kyogikai, Nippon Kobudo Kyokai, Zenkoku Todofuken-ritsu Budokan Kyogikai and International Budo University |
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| 1970 |
International Kendo Federation formed with 17 members |
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| 1971 |
Nippon Budokan Training Center
in Katsuura |
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| 1975 |
Kendo no Rinen (kendo is not a sport) |
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| Japanese Budo Association (at budokan) Judo, kendo, kyudo, sumo, karatedo, aikido, shorinji kempo naginata and jukendo |
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| 1978 |
First kobudo taikai at NB with 46 ryuha. |
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| 1979 |
Japanese Classical Budo Association formed |
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| 1985 |
"peak budo" in Japan, participation starts to drop. |
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| 1987 |
Budo Association "Budo Charter" with warning to preserve the culture |
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| 1989 |
Heisei | ||||
| 2006 |
Japan kendo team defeated at the world championships |
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| Japan defeated at judo directorship, no Japanese on the IJF board |
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| "Fundamental Law of Education" stipulates pupils must "respect Japanese traditional culture" |
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| 2012 |
budo compulsory in junior high schools |
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