Here we give a brief history of the history of kendo.
1895 was founded in Kyoto on Dai nihon butokukai, where he practiced and taught a style shinai-geiko called gekken (austere sword), while other institutions favored a more casual defined discipline kendo. The Dai nihon butokukai regulated levels of expert dividing into five degrees dan. The headlines, however, those were areas of teaching: renshi, kyoshi and hanshi. The great importance of Dai Nihon Butokukai in the development and dissemination of kendo has been much diminished because of the political involvement of that organization, considered ultraimperialista. The kendo kata: was established in 1906 to Butokukai experts of shindo munen ryu, musashi ryu, jikishin-kage ryu and kyoshin meichi ryu.
The kata they developed was called by nippon teikoku kendo kata and included nine practices with the long sword and the sword with three short. With few changes (1912) has become the nihon no kendo kata.

1912 creates the school improvement of butokukai call Budo senmon gakko, which becomes the cultural center of the martial arts.
The Federation first university was founded in Tokyo in 1906 through the work of Watanabe Noburobu.

Born 1928 the Federation of Japanese kendo whose first president was Fukuda Masataro.

1934 the kendo becomes mandatory for the latest classes of primary schools. The American occupation of Japan leads to a ban on the practice of martial arts; for kendo resumed the practice is so purely sports under the name shinai kyogi, to the creation of Zen nippon kendo renmei in 1952.

1957 brings the Znkr dan grades five to ten.

1957 and 1962 the kendo is made compulsory in schools.

1967 will be held the first international tournament in Tokyo.
1970 was founded the International Federation (Ikf) on the occasion of the first World Championships in Tokyo and Osaka. Since then the world championships are held every three years:

1973 Los Angeles and San Francisco, USA

1976 Milton Keynes, Great Britain

1979 Sapporo, Japan

1982 Sao Paulo, Brazil

1985 Paris, France

1988 Seoul, Korea

1991 ..... , Canada
1994 Paris, France

1997 Kyoto, Japan

In Italy, as often happens, kendo has taken the first steps in different places, where schools have developed independently and without each other. Certainly one of the first schools was in Cava dei Tirreni, where the master Infranzi served as a reference point for the Japanese masters of martial arts in Italy.
In the North, Busen Milan, Kenshiro Abbe had taught the concepts of kendo, but the real development arose with Alexander Kimura held that the late sixties regular courses in Turin and Milan.
The first dan grades were given by a commission from Japanese capitanata Kasahara, secretary general of the Federation.
Claudio Set
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