Nage no kata is the throwing techniques form of Hontai Yōshin-ryū Jujutsu, a traditional (koryū) school of Japanese martial arts founded c.1660, by Takagi Shigetoshi. [From Wikipedia. Original page is... more »
Oku no kata is the form of the controlling defence techniques of Hontai Yōshin-ryū Jujutsu, a traditional (koryū) school of Japanese martial arts founded c.1660, by Takagi... more »
Hontai Yōshin-ryū is a traditional (koryū) school of Japanese martial arts founded c.1660, by Takagi Shigetoshi. Some sources give Takagi’s middle name as Setsuemon, while others give it as Oriemon. This school was active during the Edo period, especially dominant in the Himeji-han and Ako-han. The present headmaster (sōke) is Inoue Kyoichi Munenori who... more »
Gyaku no kata is the study of the barehanded defence techniques of Hontai Yōshin-ryū Jujutsu, a traditional (koryū) school of Japanese martial arts founded c.1660, by Takagi... more »
Tenjin Shin’yō-ryū, literally meaning “Divine True Willow School”, can be classified as a traditional school (koryū) of Jujutsu. It was founded by Iso Mataemon Minamoto no Masatari in the 1830s. Once a very popular jujutsu system in Japan, among the famous students who studied the art were Kano Jigoro, whose modern art of Judo... more »