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Demetrio Cereijo · 10-23-2010, 05:20 PM

There are various gendai arts who use the suffix "ryu" without major problems, Hakko-ryu jujutsu (a DRAJJ derivative) and Toyama-ryu battojutsu (Imperial Japanese Army swordmanship) comes to mind.

I don't think the use of "ryu" in a gendai budo is semantically incorrect. But I can be wrong.

Anyway, if someone more knowledgeable appears, he/she could also explain where is the frontier between a "ha" and a "ryu" for its something that I still haven't managed to figure exactly.

10-23-2010, 05:20 PM	#14
Demetrio Cereijo Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,248 Offline	Re: The role of Aikido Federation in your country. There are various gendai arts who use the suffix "ryu" without major problems, Hakko-ryu jujutsu (a DRAJJ derivative) and Toyama-ryu battojutsu (Imperial Japanese Army swordmanship) comes to mind. I don't think the use of "ryu" in a gendai budo is semantically incorrect. But I can be wrong. Anyway, if someone more knowledgeable appears, he/she could also explain where is the frontier between a "ha" and a "ryu" for its something that I still haven't managed to figure exactly.