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Old 05-25-2011, 10:33 AM   #7
Pauliina Lievonen
 
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Re: Kishomon/Keppan (Blood Oaths) in modern budo???

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Toby Threadgill wrote: View Post
An authentic budo kishomon is concerned with maintaining the art, its ethos, traditions, individual morality and loyalty to the founding family or clan chief. An authentic kishomon frequently outlines the proper management of the schools technical syllabus, restricting who learns what and how they are selected for instruction. That's pretty much it.
So it sounds more like a professional code of conduct, like the one I've agreed to when joining my professional organization?

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