The 1978 form, in which each technique is shown as a sword form and its empty-hand twin.
The two-form version of the Ken-tai Ichi no Kata is the form Mochizuki published in Nihonden Jūjutsu (1978). It contains five forms, and each is shown twice — once with the sword and once empty-handed — so the version comprises ten techniques in all. The two are meant to be read together: the empty-hand technique is the same motion as its sword twin, on the same line and timing. This is the meaning of ken-tai ichi — sword and body as one.
In his opening essay, Mochizuki records that he created the kata himself, "establishing" (seitei) it about ten years earlier, because he had trained the old sword methods before he came to aiki and could therefore trace, technique by technique, how the body work and the sword work correspond.
Ken‑tai Ichi no Kata consists of five paired forms — each with a sword version and an unarmed version. Every pair expresses the same line, timing, and structural logic.
The sword teaches the line; the body expresses it.
Each form below is given in both modes — the sword technique first, then its empty-hand twin.
First form
Second form
Third form
Fourth form
Fifth form
Demonstrations of the kata appear on YouTube from time to time. The following are recordings by other practitioners, linked here while they remain online. Each should show the two-form version — sword and body, without the sword-against-unarmed mode.

The de Jong lineage comes through Yoshiaki Unno.
This kata was modified from the documented kata
Kotekudaki, Hijikudaki, Shihonage, Tenbinnage, Mukaedaoshi

Mochizuki later published a developed version of the kata in three forms, adding a middle mode — sword against unarmed — in which the empty-handed defender takes the technique and disarms the swordsman.
Minoru Mochizuki, Nihonden Jūjutsu (日本傳柔術), Tokyo: Kōdansha, 24 December 1978 — Chapter 6, the Ken-tai Ichi no Kata in two forms (sword and body).
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