What makes a fighting style a martial art, and what makes a fighting style not a martial art?

Non of those are really styles, Between those they cover over 300 to 600 styles.. Styles are more like seitei ryu, kage ryu, chujo ryu, tomari ryu, omora ryu and so forth. Your list is taught now a days is more just one aspect of sword fighting and not complete, you need all three to aspects and not just one.

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