Dai Nippon Butoku Kai
In 1886 the Japanese Police gathered together "kata" from a variety of "kenjutsu" schools into a standardised set for training purposes. This process of standardization of martial training continued when, in 1895, a body for martial arts in Japan, the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, was established. Work on standardizing "kenjutsu" "kata" continued for years, with several groups involved until in 1912 an edict was released by the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai. This edict highlighted a lack of unity in teaching and introduced a standard core teaching curriculum to which the individual "kenjutsu" schools would add their distinctive techniques. This core curriculum, and its ten "kata" evolved into the modern martial art of "kendo". This point could be regarded as the end of the development of Kendo. Kata was provided for the unification of many schools to enable them to pass on the techniques and spirit of the Japanese sword.