Background

Question 1

ZNKR

Answer 1

Zen Nihon kendo renmei

All Japan Kendo Federation

Question 2

Seitei jodo

Answer 2

Zen Nihon Kendō Renmei Jodo
created by Shimizu Takaji
contains 12 kihon and 12 kata
drawn from Shinto Muso-ryu

Question 3

Shinto Muso-ryu

Answer 3

traditional school (koryu) of jojutsu

Question 4

koryu

Answer 4

old style, Japanese martial art that predates the Meiji Restoration (1868)

in jodo: Shinto Muso-ryu

Question 5

The founder of jodo

Answer 5

samurai Musō Gonnosuke Katsuyoshi

legend: duel with Miyamoto Musashi

When Musashi was in Edo, he met an adept named Musō Gonnosuke, who asked to fight him. Gonnosuke used a wooden sword. Musashi was in the process of making a small Bo; he picked up a piece of firewood. Gonnosuke attacked him without even bowing, but he received a blow from Musashi that made him fall down. He was impressed and left.

Gonnosuke, struck by his defeat, went into solitary meditation until he received divine inspiration in a dream; he then invented techniques to fight against Musashi’s two swords using only a stick, and defeated Musashi on their next encounter.

Question 6

jo

Answer 6

128cm x 2.4-2.6cm