“For those that don’t know, between the 1870′s and 1934 the Japanese military, in an effort to modernize, adopted western style practice (see the movie “The Last Samurai”). They adopted a western style saber called a kyugunto in place of traditional Japanese swords until 1934 when they created the shingunto, a tachi style military sword. The Kenjutsu Kyohan was a manual on how to fence with these western style sabers as well as bayonet fencing and mounted fencing. ”
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Worth a look. Especially good if you haven’t done European style fencing.
World War II US Marines answer…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1gYUSgcfZ4