Weapons

Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu incorporates multiple weapons and tools in its study. Budo Taijutsu classes at the Dayton Bujinkan Dojo incorporates the use of weapons in most classes. All students, regardless of rank, train in weapon and tool use. This includes:

• katana & tachi (swords)
• shoto & kodachi (short swords)
• rokushakubo, jo, hanbo (6 ft staff, 4 ft staff, 3 ft staff)
• tanto & kunai (short knife and blade tool)
• kusari fundo (3 ft rope/chain, also called manriki kusari)
• kyoketsu shoge (small sickle and rope/chain)
• naginata & yari (long polearm weapons)
• sanban & bo shuriken (throwing blades)

Other specialty weapons of each Bujinkan ryu-ha exist and are introduced during advanced training.

All weapons within the Bujinkan are taught during normal class. Although special classes and seminars are occasionally held to focus on the movement of certain weapons, this is not the norm. Most Budo Taijutsu classes incorporate some level of weapons movement during training.