It will be Kenjutsu that underwent transfiguration most of the budo in the last days of the shogunate. In the evolution of 'the theory of the practical bugei', Kenjutsu was forced to change in quality in the position between the hojutsu (the Japanese gunnery) raising its head and the declining kyujutsu (the Japanese archery)and jujutsu.
Now in this paper, mainly considering the various materials related to Sugane Kubota and Nobutomo Odani which were cleared up in the research, and refering to the documents related to the Itto-ryu Kenjutsu, positively I discussed the inclination of the change in guality of Kenjutsu in the last days of the shogunate.
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Shinai Uchicomi Shiai Kenjutsu (the Kenjutsu by the matches hitting each other with shinai) whose systematization of the technics had been immature was weeded out taking it as an opportunity long shinai's coming into vogue, and, the disciplining and practical Kenjutsu was groped by Kenjutsuka (the proffssor of Kenjutsu), with it, the systematization of the teechnics of Shinai Uchicomi Shiai Kenjutsu had progressed.
