Ryu_(school)
Ryū (流, mainly used as a suffix, meaning style, type, form, manner, system, school,[1] used here in the sense of ryūha (流派, a school or a school of thought)) is the Japanese term referring to a school in any discipline.[2][3] The kanji itself is commonly used as a suffix.
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In English, the word is frequently used to refer to schools of Japanese martial art, although it can also be found used in other disciplines (for example Nihon-koryū and Sōgetsu-ryū in ikebana, Kantei-ryū in calligraphy, etc.).[4]