kendon.
/ˈkɛndəʊ/, U.S. /ˈkɛndoʊ/ The Japanese sport of fencing with bamboo swords.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fencing or exercise with sticks or cudgels > [noun]
waster1519
wastership1575
single billeta1625
cudgels1630
quarterstaff1631
cudgel-playa1635
back-sword1699
cudgel-playing1717
hurlbatting1744
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stick fighting1845
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back-swording1857
kendo1921
1921 S. K. Uyenishi Text-bk. Ju-Jutsu i. 14 Kendo or Ken-jutsu, ‘the hard way’ and ‘the hard art’..is the elaboration of the old two-sword play of the samurai or ‘two-sworded men’.
1933 Official Guide to Japan (Jap. Imperial Govt. Railways) p. clxxxvi Kenjutsu or Kendō (also called Gekken), the art of handling a sword, corresponds to European fencing and is as old as Japanese history.
1939 R. Kaji Japan facing p. 56 (caption) Kendô, Japanese fencing, in which the participants use bamboo swords.
1958 Economist 1 Nov. 422/1 The government has reintroduced the forbidden kendo or military fencing in schools.
1964 R. A. Lidstone Introd. Kendō 15 Quite understandably Kendō, with its militant background, lost favour after the last war.
1966 J. Ball Cool Cottontail iv. 37 He had become interested in the basic Oriental martial arts: judo, kendo, aikido, and karate.
1974 Publishers Weekly 28 Jan. 100/1 (advt.) Kendo, or Japanese sword fighting, is an ancient method of training body and mind that now is becoming popular throughout the world.
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