About me

My name is Krzysztof Walla.
I started my martial arts practice in 1975.
I started the practice of using the Japanese sword in 1983.
I have been co-creating since 2015
Polish-Japanese Cold Steel Day
at the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw, Poland.

Suemonogiri.

In the Enshin-ryu school, suemonogiri is performed, not tameshigiri.
For those unfamiliar with the subject, the difference is virtually unnoticeable, but in fact essential.
Tameshigiri is a cut on a fixed object to assess the quality of the blade. Suemonogiri, on the other hand, is the cutting of a free-standing target, usually bamboo or a sheaf of rice straw. The lack of mounting allows a realistic assessment of the swordsman's skills.
Because the imperial edict in the Meiji era forbade the wearing of swords - practically the only time they were used was seppuku and the performance of kaishaku. The training of the Enshin-ryu school prepared for the role of seppuku assistant.

Attempted to cut "kakae-kubi",
successful at some 95% ;)

There were two kinds of kaishaku - the "helper" cut to end the life of a samurai committing seppuku.
The first was to cut off the head completely and was performed on samurai sentenced to death by opening their belly.
The second was reserved for honorable seppuku, when this cut of the belly was to, for example, save the honor of a samurai, his master or family, showing "purity of spirit". The head was not cut off completely then, a thin piece of skin was left for the head to fall between the shoulders and not to stain the honor of rolling on the ground.
This honorable cut was called "kakae-kubi".


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