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Kashima-Shinryu - JO

This Kashima-Shinryū jo is available in three different diameters. Select one of our 8 woodtypes or have your bo engraved for personalisation.

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€79,00 incl. tax


Kashima-Shinryū (鹿島神流)

Kashima-Shinryū (鹿島神流) is a nearly 500 years old Japanese koryu martial art. The name Kashima refers to Kashima Shrine that is located in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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

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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 for long weapons:

  • Beech (Fagus sylvatica)
  • Wild Cherry (Prunus avium)
  • European oak (Quercus petraea)
  • Acacia (Albizia procera)
  • Jatoba (Hymenaea courbaril)
  • Walnut (Juglans cinerea)
  • Ipe (Tabebuia serratifolia)
All previous woods are non-CITES spiecies and are readily available.

Unfortunatelly we are unable to offer the following woodtypes on a regular basis, since the supply for suitable pieces is very slim. We do however offer some stock items from these woods and if your are very interested in one of these types of wood, feel free to contact us, maybe we can find you a piece.
  • Wenge (Millettia laurentii)
  • Zebrawood (Microberlinia brazzavillensis)
  • Padauk (Pterocarpus marsupium)
  • Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia)
  • Purpleheart (Peltogyne paniculata)Pear (Pyrus communis)
  • Plum (Pygeum africanum)
  • Dogwood (Cornus florida)
  • Blackheart (Zollernia paraensis)
  • Ebony (Diospyros melanoxylon)
Read more about the woodtypes we offer here...

 

Engraving options

Our woodworker Pero, can engrave your name in you jo by hand. If you like to personalise your bo 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.

 

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.

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