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| | Koryu budo, kobudo, kobujutsu, koryu bujutsu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Koryu budo is yet another term--along with kobudo, kobujutsu, and koryu bujutsu--used in Japan to refer to the classical martial traditions. |
 | | Budo, strictly speaking, refers to a Japanese martial way, while the modifier "koryu" distinguishes the classical or traditional martial arts from the modern, or gendai systems (see the "Koryu Primer" and "The Meaning of the Martial Arts: Some Reflections Along the Way" for more detail for more on -do versus -jutsu and koryu versus gendai). |
 | | Bujutsu might possibly be used to distinquish an art with a stronger emphasis on combative technique from those that focus on life discipline (the "Way"), but in general, budo is the term used in Japan to refer to martial arts. |
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