Abstract
Since the modern school education had started in 1872 (the fifth year of Meiji Era), there was a movement among bujutsuka martial artists to make bujutsu martial arts as material for school physical education. But medical and physiological view of physical education was dominant among the officials of the Ministry of Education. They were doubtful about bujutsu martial arts' pre-modern teaching and learning system and considered bujutsu martial arts as extra-curricular activity.
Then there appeared some bujutsuka martial artists who, not by confrontation but by compromise with the Ministry of Education, tried to find the solution. That was what we call ‘bujutsu-taiso-ho method’ in which teachers teach bujutsu martial arts to a group of students at one time.
More than twenty books on this ‘bujutsu-taiso-ho method’ were published in twenty years since 1897(the thirtieth year of Meiji Era) and this method was practiced on an experimental basis throughout this country. Among them the method that Ozawa Unosuke tried was the most influential, especially to naginata martial arts education for girls. This method was effective to teach bujutsu martial arts to the beginners, and became very popular.
