Bujinkan literally means "Divine Warrior Hall".Bujinkan Ninjutsu is a collection of 9 different fighting schools with more than 800 years of known history. In those days every fighter in Japan learned at many different masters at the same time. This tradition was the base for the Bujinkan Ninjutsu System of Soke (grand master) Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi. These schools contain varied origins and influences. Most of them were created in the time of the Japanese civil wars. A number of schools were founded by Chinese or Korean immigrants, others by monks or Samurai. The effectiveness of these techniques has been tested and improved in battle again and again during the centuries. When a technique did not work, it died with its inventor. The result of this development is a varied and effective fighting arts system. This system contains unarmed close combat techniques, and also meditation, horseriding, swimming, meteorology, handling of sword, spear, halberd, bow, knife, rope, stick, throwing weapons and so on.

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