The royalty part is me doing a bit, being cheeky, teasing, suggesting you are spoiled/high borne enough to be allowed to carry a katana and wakizashi.

...as opposed to the weapons employed by kobudo, which ultimately derives from Okinawan/Ryukyuan peasants developing a form of guerilla warfare, to resist invading samurai, with either an empty hand (karatedo), or basically common farming tools (kobudo) ...as they were prohibited from owning, or carrying proper weapons, by said samurai.

Or uh, put in more anime terms:

Mugen: Tch. [Dismissive]

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I guess if its relevant, I got up to a shodan from Shito-Ryu before I went to college... it has been a while since then, but I don't recall hearing of Uechi-Ryu...

From the wiki page, it seems... roughly similar to Goju-Ryu, but of its own lineage... I am genuinely curious to know more, if you would be willing to share.

For example, I was taught by my shihon that the basic, zenkutsu dachi / oi tsuki, was originally a sort of basic model of how to hit with enough force to actually do some meaningful damage to an unarmed, armored opponent... like a samurai who had been releived of his weapon.

Have you heard anything like this in your Uechi-Ryu training?

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I am also somewhat familiar, as an observer, with kendo... it was taught at the same dojo I trained in karate at, but aha!, alas, I had neither the time nor money to study both karate/kobudo and kendo, as well as get good enough school grades to be able to go to a uni, all at the same time, hahah!

EDIT:

Ah, I forgot, it was actually kendo and iaido... again I am not well versed in either, but evidently iaido goes back ... hundreds of years further than kendo.

And, just for good measure, I once dated a girl who practiced kyudo, traditional Japanese archery... very interesting, only bow form I've ever even heard of where the bow and draw are designed such that you do not do a straight backward pull... you actually twist the arrow as you draw, the bow and string are designed with this in mind, to untwist as you release, almost like proto-rifling.

Finally: Believe me or not, but I once encountered and made an acquaintance of a man who... claimed to have been exiled from the Yakuza.

He had a very busted middle finger, explained to me that... he had fucked something up, and his superior, instead of taking the finger....switched the blade around and struck with the blunt side, which shattered his knuckle... but better than losing it.

And he was then to never return to Japan.

... He was a... 4th or 5th degree shodan, did a bullshit test on me claiming to be a 1st degree shodan by... throwing an extremely accurate punch directly at the bridge of my nose.

I did nothing.

Him being (or claiming to be) a 4th or 5th degree shodan, it would have been an insult for me to assume he was not entirely capable of stopping that punch a centimeter from making contact.

Which he did!

We then both broke out laughing, he patted me on the back, 'good, good!'.

That was quite a night.