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Old 09-20-2007, 08:51 AM   #5
Paul Sanderson-Cimino
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Re: Ryuuha Bugei all soft and mushy, too!

I did find one other possible example, but it doesn't seem very thorough either. It says that:
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Estimates based on surviving documentation from the period suggest that there were at most a few dozen ryuuha around during the 16th Century. Armies of that era, however, regularly mobilized tens of thousands of men….

Ryuuha bugei must, therefore, have been a specialized activity pursued by only a minute percentage of Sengoku warriors.
Without establishing anything about pedagogy in the period, it's not clear how many people could reasonably be trained to some extent in one ryu. Furthermore, it doesn't follow that ryuha that did not train most soldiers were not intended for war -- merely that they weren't intended for mass instruction.
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