Korean martial arts the 1790s, as military arts had withered by that time. Despite the publication of this manual, it was never widely distributed, and there was no renaissance of martial arts in Korea. In 1895, Emperor Gojong invited 40 sword masters from Japan to begin teaching the art of the sword to his Korean Army cadets and police officers. This was decided upon due to the lack of native sword masters in Korea at the time . The teaching of the Art of the Sword continued well after the 1910 Annexation, until the art was formally named Kendo in Japan, and Kumdo
Order of the Sword but these were later multiplied by division into classes. The motto of the order is in Latin: "Pro Patria" (which means "For Fatherland"). The order was created by King Frederick I in 1748, along with two other orders, the Order of the Seraphim and the Order of the Polar Star. In 1788, King Gustav III created two new grades of the order, which could only be bestowed in war time: These grades proper were only given to commissioned officers, but an affiliated decoration, the "Svärdstecken" ("Badge of the Sword"), introduced in 1850, was given to non-commissioned officers; one thus decorated