Jinen Ryu

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Jinen Ryu is a martial arts school created by Fumio "Unsui" Manaka Sensei based upon his many years of training and studying weapon-based martial arts. It contains a full curriculum for the following weapons:

• Biken (sword)
• Nito (two swords used at once)
• Tessen (iron war fan)
• Tanto (knife)
• Kusarifundo (weighted chain)
• Jutte (cudgel)

It was created in the belief that a lot of structure and katas have slowly gone over the years on the other ryus and a full curriculum may have been lost, i.e in one or two of the other the ryus after the kamae techniques go straight to katas, missing out the basics. Much of Jinen ryu is designed to "fill in the blanks" and help bring an all-around structure to the teachings