Today, I am introducing Nitoryu (two-sword)
style. Historically, Musashi Miyamoto, who is the author of “The book of five
rings”, is a famous Nitoryu style swordsman.
What I introduce this time is not a
hundreds years ago, but 2014 Tokyo district tournament match.
The following video is a match. Red player
is Kaneko who is a two-sword style player, and white is Ogawa who is a standard
style player.
In Nitoryu, usually right hand holds
shorter sword and left hand holds normal length sword. Short sword can be used
as a defense, but it is not for getting ippon.
Nitoryu is very difficult; Handling by one hand
requires strong grip and muscles. This red player has strong power, as you see
in 0:45 serial hit.
From viewpoint of Nitoryu side, Man and
Kote are the most likely places to hit. Do and Tsuki are usually too
complicated.
1:42 red player’s Men was good timing. This
player also showed interesting move like 1:48-. I have never seen this kind of
tricky movement in ordinary one-sword players’ match.
2:37 white player hit unguarded Men as red
player was at a loss after aggressive Tsuki attack.
2:55 red player tried to Tsuki in return,
but end up in failure.
3:46 Men was excellent, red player focused
timing and welcomed white player to come to his reach and hit.
White player’s last gyaku-Do at 4:11 was
fast and sound. So, the score finished 1 – 2 from red to white.
By the way, I have once matched with
Nitoryu player. At that time, I won with Tsuki, but it took time and was very
difficult to hit Men or Kote, …maybe because two-swords play made it easier to
defense various places at the same time. (Or just I wasn't used to matching
two-swords player.) Anyway, it was not easy and comfortable to play, so I don’t
want another match.
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