近世剣術における訪問修行に関する研究

―片山家文書『星野記』について―

抄録

In Edo era some people, who wished to pursue the techniques of kenjutsu and to improve them, called at the other clan (han) in oder to enter into the kenjutsu-school (ryuha) in the clan and to receive direct instruction from the head of the school (sole). They profoundly examined the details of kata which had been already acquired and got the kata readjusted by the head of the school. The training form of this kind, which the auther call “homon-syugyo”, was often practiced in various fields of Japanese martial arts.
“Hoshino -ki” is a document which was kept at the Katayama-family. According to the document, Kakuemon Hoshino (a clansman of Kumamoto) visited Risuke Katayama (a head of Katayama-school)in Iwakuni to master kenjutsu at the bth year of An' ei (1777). And we can regard it as a typical case of “homon -syugyo” and get the actual information of it in detail.
“Homon-syugyo” was practiced due to the Japanese martial arts whose techniques were mainly transmitted from individual to individual by means of kata in the bujutsu-school. Kata was characteristically transmitted in Japanese culture, and it could not be avoided to cange for various reasons. So those who had respect for legitimacy and was much concerned with their own school, like Kakuemon Hoshino, wished to enter into the original school and to get the kata readjusted. And moreover, “homon -shugyo” itself was very effective to show the legitimacy of their school to others.