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or hand written scrolls structured by convention to follow a specific layout going from right to left. The structure of a
Mokuroku in koryu is set by convention. Reading from left to right, a Mokuroku will contain the ryu's name; the chronology of all the heads of the ryu; the names of the
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Mokuroku can be literally translated as catalog, however the meaning and implications of a
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