ryū

plural ryūs

1. alternativeAlternative form of ryu.

   Prior the 1950s there may have been more sanshin players in Hawaii who had studied other ryū in Okinawa before coming to Hawaii, […]

   1979, Asian Culture Quarterly, volume VII, Taipei: Asian Cultural Center, →ISSN, →OCLC, note 20, page 19

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   Rather than being separated by ryū affiliation, performers are being separated into those who can and those who cannot read staff notation.

   1987, Asian Music, volume 19, New York, N.Y.: Society for Asian Music, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 77

   Moreover, innumerable clans had their own martial practices that were not codified in the manner of martial ryū as is generally conceived; […]

   2013, Ellis Amdur, “Tenshinshō-den Katori Shintō-ryū”, in Old School: Essays on Japanese Martial Traditions, 2nd edition, Wheaton, Ill.: Freelance Academy Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Something Once New), page 32

   Add in to that, some ryūs also taught how to parry and counterattack against swords and spears by somebody only armed with a knife or short stick.

   2019, Angus MacM. Hodgson, chapter 1, in The Omega Project, book 3 (The Path of War), Indianapolis, Ind.: Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 34