OK, then what is kenjutsu?
Kenjutsu is the generic term for Japanese sword-fighting. Donn Draegger, the well-known martial artist and scholar, used the convention that in Japanese martial arts, the “do” forms are those used to improve the self, while the “jutsu” forms concentrate on teaching the techniques of war. Note that this is a modern convention, not something that reflects historical usage of the suffixes. However, it has come to be the way that many people use the terms. Using the broad (non-Draegger) definition of the term, all Japanese sword fighting is kenjutsu, even kendo. This document uses the term kenjutsu to refer to the fencing curriculum of any of the koryu, or old schools of Japanese martial arts In other words, old-style (not kendo) Japanese sword fighting after the swords have been drawn is kenjutsu. The term kenjutsu encompasses rather a lot of different styles of sword fighting which incorporate various training methods. The primary goal of kendo is to improve oneself through the study of
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