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**mussmicky** · 04-25-2006, 08:00 AM

Samurai was required to train 18 kinds of fighting skills(It's called Bugei-jyu-happan). Those were archery,horsemanship, spear-fighting, sword-fighting, draw-sword, short sword-fighting, naginata, throwing knife(syuri-ken), swimming, jitte-jyutu(short metal truncheon), bou-jyutu(stick fighting), arrest-skill(torite-jyutu), mojiri-jyutu(arresting tool skill), chain-sickle, fukumi-bari-jyutu(blow out needle from mouth), ongyou-jyutu(hiding skill), gunnery, and jyu-jyutu.

Did I miss something?
For some of skill I could not find good translation, so those might be unclear.

I don't think they learned all of those...chain sickles (kusari gama) were very difficult to use, and were fairly uncommon. The only reference i found to needle projectile attacks was Ueno Izu, who threw (not blew) 12cm needles. Hiding? i doubt that. Usually, samurai were kept in large groups (escorting, combat between armies, etc), which were difficult to conceal. The 18 fighting skills you've described fall more into the first 4 training "halls" in ninjutsu that the training samurai generally received.

04-25-2006, 08:00 AM	#8
mussmicky Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 519 Senior Member	Samurai was required to train 18 kinds of fighting skills(It's called Bugei-jyu-happan). Those were archery,horsemanship, spear-fighting, sword-fighting, draw-sword, short sword-fighting, naginata, throwing knife(syuri-ken), swimming, jitte-jyutu(short metal truncheon), bou-jyutu(stick fighting), arrest-skill(torite-jyutu), mojiri-jyutu(arresting tool skill), chain-sickle, fukumi-bari-jyutu(blow out needle from mouth), ongyou-jyutu(hiding skill), gunnery, and jyu-jyutu. Did I miss something? For some of skill I could not find good translation, so those might be unclear. I don't think they learned all of those...chain sickles (kusari gama) were very difficult to use, and were fairly uncommon. The only reference i found to needle projectile attacks was Ueno Izu, who threw (not blew) 12cm needles. Hiding? i doubt that. Usually, samurai were kept in large groups (escorting, combat between armies, etc), which were difficult to conceal. The 18 fighting skills you've described fall more into the first 4 training "halls" in ninjutsu that the training samurai generally received.
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