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
Indian martial arts silambam includes a variety of weapons such as the sword, twin sticks, double deer horns, whip, sword, shield and sword, dagger, flexible sword and sickle. Unarmed silambam ("kai silambam") is based on animal movements such as the snake, eagle, tiger and elephant. Other Martial Arts of Tamil Nadu are [[Varma Kalai]], Kalari payattu, Adi Thadi, [[Malyutham]] AND Gusthi (Boxing form of Tamil Nadu, not to be confused with North Indian [[Kushti]] which is a [[Wrestling]] art.) [[File:Kushti (in Bharatpur March 2013).jpg|right|thumb|Wrestling match in Bharatpur, 2013.]] Indian martial arts have influenced martial arts of numerous nations, specially in [[East Asia]] and