What is "shinkage-ryu"

Koryū Japanese martial art

Shinkage-ryū (新陰流)

Founder(s)

Kamiizumi Ise-no-Kami Nobutsuna
(上泉 伊勢守 信綱)

Founding Date

Late Muromachi period

Arts taught

Japanese name

Kenjutsu

meaning "new shadow school", is a traditional school ( koryū) of Japanese martial arts, founded by Kamiizumi Ise-no-Kami Nobutsuna (上泉 伊勢守 信綱, 1508–1578) in the mid-sixteenth century. Shinkage-ryū is primarily a school of swordsmanship ( kenjutsu and iaijutsu), and is a synthesis of Nobutsuna's studies in the school of Kage-ryū (Aizu).