The influence of Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsu (良移心当流 柔術) on it's derivative schools, such as Kitō-ryū (起倒流) and Jigō Tenshin-ryū Jūjutsu (剛天 真流柔術)

Published on 28 October 2024 by Peter King

To illustrate the influence of Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsu (良移心当流 柔術) on it's derivative schools, such as Kitō-ryū (起倒流) and Jigō Tenshin-ryū Jūjutsu (剛天 真流柔術), please see the pictures below:

1) Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsu (良移心頭流柔術) - 'Tachi Karami' (太刀搦 - sword bind / entangle), taken from 'Bushidō' (武士道) magazine Volume 1 - published in 1898 by the 'Dai Nihon Bujutsu Kōshūkai' (大日本武術講習会 - Great Japan Martial Arts Demonstration Society).

2) From the 'Kitō Yushin Jūjutsu Hiden Kai' (起倒雄心柔術秘傳解) "An Explanation of the Secret Techniques of the Kitō Yushin School" by Tahara Shūme (田原主馬) in Meiji (明治) 38 (1905).

3) From Captain Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle's book ‘Do or Die’ (published 1944). Biddle was a student of John J. O’Brien, who had studied Jigō Tenshin-ryū Jūjutsu (自剛天真流柔術) in the Nagasaki foreign settlement and then returned to the U.S.A..

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