Kitō-ryū Jūjutsu Hontai (起倒流柔術本体 - main substance / real form)

Published on 4 June 2020 by Peter King

Further to my previous posts regarding the Kitō-ryū being a continuation of the Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsu (良移心当流 柔術)

I recently obtained this document, which is the:

Kitō-ryū Jūjutsu Hontai (起倒流柔術本体 - main substance / real form)

It was written in Keiō (慶応) 2 (1867), during the last year of the Tokugawa Shogunate (徳川幕府) and just prior to the Meiji restoration.

The translation (by Logan Weymouth from another copy of the document) is as follows:

本體者体之事 Hontai sha Tai No Koto ( Matter of the Basics for Beginners - my reading would be; "Matter of the the fundamentals')

理也専離形扱 Rie Senri Keitō (Main Principle Set of Handling Forms)

氣不得正理己 Kihutoku Shōriki (Unacquired 'Ki' Energy Correct Self-Perspective)

不知扱氣静貌 Buchisō Kijōbō (The Countenance of Being Stout Hearted and Unaffected)

至所得静氣敵 Shishotoku Seikiteki (Being Stout Hearted About the Enemy and The Place-of-Incident)

之強弱能徹強 Shikyōjaku Sōtetsukyō (The Strength of Penetrating into Strengths and Weaknesses)

弱通達則千變 Jaku.tsū Tatsusoku Senben (The Changing to the 1000 Rules of Acquiring Passage by Weakness)

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