ryū

See also: ryu, Ryu, and Ryū

English

Noun

ryū (plural ryū or ryūs)

1. Alternative form of ryu.
   • 1979, Asian Culture Quarterly, volume VII, Taipei: Asian Cultural Center, →ISSN, →OCLC, note 20, page 19:

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

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

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

   • 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:

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

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

     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.

Japanese

Romanization

ryū

1. Rōmaji transcription of りゅう