I’ve noticed that kyudo and naginatajutsu tend to have mostly women practitioners nowadays, but how about as far back as over a century ago?

But was it fairly common to have a female master teaching either naginatajutsu (naginata polearm) or kyudo/kyujutsu (bow) to fellow women during the Meiji era and pre-WWII? Or did men teach this to women back then too, in a dojo setting? Or did only their husbands/father teach them?

Leave a Reply
You May Also Like