Budo Senmon Gakko

[citation needed] The arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's "Black Ships" in 1853 caused the Japanese to abandon their "archaic" martial arts and use western firepower.

[citation needed] He arranged a series of performances by well known martial artists called gekken kogyo.

This led to a number of people, notably Ozawa Unosuke and Nakajima Kenzo, to try to develop a gymnastics adaptation of bujutsu.

The formation of the Butoku Kai was a major turning point for getting martial arts back into the school curriculum.

This system was revised and improved a number of times, and then led to the formation of the Butoku Gakko (School of Martial Virtue) in 1911.

Budo Senmon Gakko continued to produce excellent instructors until the outbreak of World War II, as more and more students were drafted into the Japanese military.