Hasso

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Hasso, or more formally, hasso no kamae, is one of the five stances in kendo: jōdan, chūdan, gedan, hasso, and waki. It is the ready position with the shinai held in a slight diagonal right by the right shoulder.

It is generally considered to be a variant of jōdan-gamae, therefore an aggressive posture but it is not commonly used. It is seen as the "Kamae of Wood", because the stance looks like a tree.^{[citation needed]}