I attended the conference about Tsukahara Bokuden on Feburary 2nd. It was a very exciting event for me.
Tsukahara Bokuden was a very famous swordman in the history of Japanese martial arts. He practiced the technique for Japanese sword in 16th century and he had a great skills about it. His skills infruenced so much to the other Japanese swordmen. He made a school of Japanese swordmanship called Shin-tou-ryu in those days and the skill is still practiced with some of the people in Japan.
I could see the performance of Shin-tou-ryu at the conference and the instructor explained about the skill and the thought behind of the skills. I felt there were many excellent ideas in those old swordmanship. We can learn many things from them and also we can get many good suggestion from it. We should learn more about them:)
2月2日に塚原卜伝のシンポジウムに参加しました。とても興味深い内容で、大変面白かったです。古流の形や思想について、これまであまり深く勉強してこなかった所もあるのですが、その面白さや奥深さを再認識しました。新當流のような古流のなかに、私達は多くを学ぶ事ができると思います。人生の生き方や子育てのヒントさえ、そこに見いだす事が出来るような気がしています。改めて古流伝書を紐解いている所です。