Yagyū Shinkage-ryū (柳生新陰流)

Yagyū Shinkage-ryū (柳生新陰流) is one of the oldest Japanese schools of swordsmanship (kenjutsu). Its primary founder was Kamiizumi Nobutsuna, who called the school Shinkage-ryū.

Today, the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū remains one of the most renowned schools of Japanese swordsmanship. Its name roughly means Yagyū New Shadow School..

The art was somewhat popularized in the 20th century by Kunii Zen'ya (1894-1966), the 18th generation soke (headmaster).

Links:

• All Yagyū Shinkage-ryū weapons in our shop
• Wikipedia page on Yagyū Shinkage-ryū

Different woodtypes

Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) is the prefered wood for us at Koryu Bokken for the bokken used in daily practise. Hornbeam has many similarities to the Japanese white oak bokkens used to be made from some 15 years ago.

It has few vessels and the vessels it has are very small; it is about the same desity as Japanese white oak; it is strong; absorbs shocks; the wood dents without splintering and it's color is not to far from white oak to stand out in a dojo, if that may be a problem.

All the hornbeam is cut from our carpenters own private forest in Croatia. Pieces as selected for their shape to follow te sori of your blade and then dried for one year before being procesed.

Hornbeam can be used for both small and long weapons so you can order a full set of weapons with exactly the same colour.

Other woodtypes we offer:

• Beech (Fagus sylvatica)
• Wild Cherry (Prunus avium)
• European oak (Quercus petraea)
• Acacia (Albizia procera)
• Jatoba (Hymenaea courbaril)
• Walnut (Juglans cinerea)
• Ipe (Tabebuia serratifolia)
• Wenge (Millettia laurentii)
• Zebrawood (Microberlinia brazzavillensis)
• Padauk (Pterocarpus marsupium)
• Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia)
• Purpleheart (Peltogyne paniculata)

Engraving options

Our woodworker Pero, can engrave your name in you bokken by hand. If you like to personalise your bokken this way, please select the position and number of caracters. When you have finished your order we'll contact you for your choice of kanji or perhaps help in translating your name to katakana. All engravings will be done in the japanese "regular script" unless you specificly ask us otherwise.

Kissaki options

At Koryu Bokken we offer the possibility to customize the kissaki of your bokken to your own specifications. Since it isn't common to have a different kissaki to others in the same style, expect us to contact you before work starts on your order to make sure that is what you want. Your order will not be delayed because of this.

Manufactoring & Shipping

Since this is a custom item please allow for 8 - 12 weeks manufactoring time. After manufactoring the item is shipped from our carpenter in Croatia to our office in The Netherlands for Quality Control (QC) and then shipped to you.

Only use the shipping methods that go via our office in The Netherlands when ordering this product. Shipping from our office in The Netherlands is only applicable for non-custom/in-stock products.