Kusarigamajutsu

is the art of using the Japanese weapon Kusarigama. Kusarigamajutsu is featured in several separate martial arts such as Bujinkan (ninjutsu) and Shinto Muso-ryu. The Kusarigama is made up of three parts: the Kama (a wooden handle with a curved blade protruding at a right-angle on one end, and a small loop at the other), the Kusari (a chain attached to the Kama) and a weight at the end of the chain. In a confrontation the kusari is swung in wide sweeping arcs to distract/entangle the opponent and the Kama is used to deliver a fatal strike.

ee also

* Araki-ryu - Koryū that includes the use of the kusarigama
* Buko-ryu - Koryū that includes the use of the kusarigama
* Suiō-ryū - Koryū that includes the use of the kusarigama
* Isshin-ryu kusarigamajutsu - School of kusarigamajutsu found exclusively in the koryū Shinto Muso-ryu
* Tendo-ryu kusarigamajutsu- School of kusarigamajutsu found in the koryū Tendo-ryu bujutsu
* Toda-ha Buko-ryu - Koryū that includes the use of the kusarigama

ources

* Pascal Krieger: "Jodô - la voie du bâton / The way of the stick" (bilingual French/English), Geneva (CH) 1989, ISBN 2-9503214-0-2