The Bujinkan is the overarching name given to the study of the 9 schools of martial study inherited by Soke Masaaki Hatsumi, who now teaches these 9 schools as a whole system, from the hombu dojo in Noda, Japan. Of the 9 schools, 3 are directly associated with ninjutsu, and therefore Bujinkan is often associated with ninjutsu. The other schools include martial study typical of traditional Japanese
, non-sport forms of combat. Training incorporates body movement in unarmed tactics and with buki (weapons) and includes locks, holds, strikes, kicks, injury prevention (ukemi) and various weapons including sword, long and short staff, throwing weapons, and some of the more foreign weapons of ninjutsu and battlefield.
