After the lifting of the Budo Ban imposed by the General Headquarters of the Allied Powers after World War II gendai budo was revived, and then the schools which were established before the Meiji period came to be called kobudo to distinguish them from gendai budo.
第二次世界大戦後の連合国軍最高司令官総司令部による武道禁止後に復活した現代武道との区別のために、明治以前に成立した諸流派は古武道とよばれる。