Then, with blinding speed, Toshiro Mifune's character, Sanjuro, draws his katana, slashing open his opponent's chest as he does so, and killing him. They stand a couple of paces apart, each waiting for the other to make his move.
In it, two master swordsmen engage in a duel. For a good illustration of this, watch the ending of Akira Kurosawa's Sanjuro. It doubtless sounds strange to most people that there would be an entire discipline that focuses simply on how to draw a sword, but it must be remembered that the samurai warriors developed this to such an art that a good swordsman could draw his sword and kill his enemy in the same motion. Iaido is a sword discipline that concentrates on the techniques and esthetics of drawing the long sword ( katana). Some of those are still practiced today, including iaido and kenjutsu. What is Kendo?"Kendo" literally means "the way of the sword." In its broadest sense, kendo refers to any and all of the numerous systems of Japanese sword techniques that have been developed over the ages.
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