Japanese Spear Fighting: Sojutsu

Here's a collection of a few demonstrations of Sojutsu - Japanese spear fighting.

The spear not the sword was the main weapon of choice in the wars of the 15th and 16th century in medieval Japan.

Spears were used by both samurai and lower class foot soldiers known as ashigaru.

The following scenes were shot at the Uesugi Matsuri in Yonezawa in Yamagata Prefecture and the Shingonko Matsuri in Kofu in Yamanashi Prefecture.

In the intro section there is a cameo of a dancing TkyoSam:
http://www.youtube.com/TkyoSam

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• japan
• spear
• spears
• sojutsu
• samurai
• martial-arts
• culture
• events
• adventure
• fighting
• battle
• warfare
• weapons
• yari

[Exorcistkanda]

By the way, what is that Date Masamune armor all about?

[RoninDave]

@Exorcistkanda there is or was a store in my neighborhood that sold Miyagi products and during the opening week they let visitors try on the suit so I did and filmed it

[RoninDave]

@dragon2060 is there a point buried in your babble?

[RoninDave]

@dragon2060 learn some history (and spelling) before calling anything dumb. The samurai's chief weapon in their early days was the bow later spears became a main weapon on the battlefield for samurai and ashigaru foot soldiers. And Japanese mythology states that Japan was created by a jeweled heavenly spear

[TSEpictures]

@RoninDave Nice touch ^_^

[dragon2060]

@sanke00001 when diid i say its cool guys i dont think trolling is cool i just like doing it same with smoking with most people its not cool its just something they want to do its a bad thing but still i like it meh

[sanke00001]

@dragon2060 Try looking on the front page of google. Doesn't really work anymore, but my point stands... And honestly, "I was just trolling, it's cool guys"? Really? You've demonstrated an absolute lack of knowlege or maturity in an area where both are kinda needed to be taken seriously. So if you want to go around trolling, have fun with that, but don't expect to ever get anywhere, mate.

[Exorcistkanda]

@RoninDave Damn you people! Living in Japan, damn the economy!

[Exorcistkanda]

@RoninDave Hah! That dragon is trolling. Everybody know that the Japanese footsoldiers in ancient time uses the yari as their main weapon as it is more efficient in war, with the exception of Suzuki Magoichi who is known for arming his troops with arquebuses. The Samurais who prefer to use Katana are the likes of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro who are Kenseis. Proof, Saito Musashibo Benkei's body was riddled with spear when he died standing.

[dragon2060]

@The95Genni man you need to read the whole thing before commenting on something i have already be over this 5 or 6 times i was just fucking trolling with people and man it worked lol

[dragon2060]

@sanke00001 i dont know if i already said to you but as i have said before and before again im just trolling i know the facts of Japanese history not so much on mythology but nun the less i was just joking man and "I'm feeling lucky" what?

[The95Genni]

@dragon2060 The main weapon of the first samurai wasn´t the sword. It was the bow. And the katana was one of the "newest" weapons, before the Katana there were many many other types of swords...