Found in a research paper entitled: ‘The diffusion routes of Jiu-Jitsu to and in the U.S. since the turn of the last century to 1930s:Focus on the transfiguration and succession of Jiu-Jitsu by the two Americans’ By YABU Kotaro (2012) (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Yabu states that two Americans;, Risher W, Thornberry and John J. O’Brien […]
Ryōi Shintōkai
良移心当会
Ryōi Shintō-ryū, Jigo Tenshin-ryū, Unarmed Combat & Savate
Further to my article of 11th February 2020, regarding how unarmed combat techniques based on the JigoTenshin-ryū (剛天 真流), which was a branch of Ryōi Shintō-ryū (良移心当流), were taught to the U.S. Military during WW1 & WW2, by Captain Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr My thanks to Michael Quebec for posting this item in 'Vintage […]
Shinohara Yasunoshin was probably the last Ryōi Shintō-ryū teacher to engage in battle during the pre-modern era.
Shinohara Yasunoshin (篠原 泰之進, (1828 – 1911) was a samurai from Chikugo Province. He was also a Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsu(良移心當流柔術) teacher who had studied with the famous Shimosaka Gorobei (下坂五郎兵衛). He left Chikugo domain in 1861 and travelled to Tokyo, where he stayed with Totsuka Hikosuke (戸塚彦介) of the Totsuka-ha Yōshin-ryū Jūjutsu (戸塚派揚心流柔術) and Kubota […]
'Research on the formation process of modern Jūjutsu 一About Ujimune Sekiguchi of the Sekiguchi Shinshin style and Masakatsu Fukuno of the Ryōi Shintō style'
by Shinohara Shin'ichi (篠原信), published 2004 at Tenri University.(Translated from the Japanese) 2) FUKUNO Shichiroemon Masakatsu Fukuno Shichiroemon's biography is not clear, but he was born in Osaka and is thought to have been a vassal of the Kyogoku clan in Omi. He studied the Shinkage school of warfare (Heihō 兵法) with Yagyu Muneyoshi and […]