Dance Of The Blades
Vocabularies
Shinsengumi
The Shinsengumi("the new squad")was a special police force organized by the Bakufu(military government) duringJapan's Bakumatsu Period(late shogun) in 1864. It was active until 1869.It was founded to protect the Shogunate representatives in Kyoto at a time when a controversial imperial edict to exclude foreign trade from Japan had been made and the Chōshū clan had been forced from the imperial court. The men were drawn from the sword schools of Edo (Tokyo). Although the Shinsengumi are lauded as brave and determined heroes in popular culture, they have been described by historians as a "ruthless murdering death squad".
Daimyo
Thedaimyōwere powerful Japanese feudallords who, until their decline in the early Meiji period, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. In the term,daimeans "large", and myōstands formyōden, meaning private land.
Hiten styleiten Mitsurugi
Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū(飛天御剣流, Flying Heaven Govern Sword-Style) is an ancient kenjutsu style from the Sengoku Jidai, developed to allow a single samurai to defeat numerous foes single-handedly created by Hiko Seijūrō I. Rooted in the concept of ichi no tachi, or to strike in a single blow, practitioners of this style use a combination of immense speed and agility,battōjutsu, and acquired, observation-based pseudo-clairvoyance that permits a practitioner to anticipate an opponent's movements. Both offensive and defensive maneuvers are executed with minimal movement to increase a practitioner's ability to counter-attack and to conserve energy.
