On Sunday 6th March 2022, we held our first seminar in celebration of 400th anniversary of the founding of Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsu (良移心当流 柔術). This seminar was  in Kemsing, Kent, U.K. and transmited via video link to Manchester U.K. and Halifax in Canada. During the seminar the following grade awards were made: Sandan 3rd dan […]

Fukuno Shichirouemon Masakatsu (福野七郎右衛門正勝) founded the Ryōi Shintō-ryū (良移心当流) - on "an auspicious day in March 1622". So, this is now the 400th anniversary of the school. My sincere thanks to my teacher James Shortt and everyone (past & present) involved in the style and let our generation have the honour of propelling Ryōi Shintō-ryū […]

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The ‘Ryōi Shintō-ryū Denju Mokuroko’ (良移心当流 伝授目録) believed to have been writen by Fukuno Shichirouemon (福野七郎右衛門), explains the meaning of 'Ryōi Shintō Wa / Yawara' as follows: “The meaning of 'Ryōi Shintō Wa / Yawara' is to shift (i 移) your heart (shin 心) well (ryō 良), then you will encounter (tō 当) harmony (wa […]

Translated from the Japanese language article: Ryōi Shintō-ryū Wa-jutsu by Shinohara Shinichi (良移心当流和術 篠原信), Tenri University Academic Bulletin (天理大学学報) 212:35-42,20 (2005) In Yagyū Shinkage-ryū (柳生新陰流), a person holding 'Gokui Kaiden' (極意皆伝 - innermost licence), receives techniques other than the sword techniques, and these were referred to as 'Soto no mono' (外の物 - outside things), 'Kowakizashi […]

From: Ryōi Shintō-ryū Wa-jutsu Shinohara Shinichi (良移心当流和術 篠原信), Tenri University Academic Bulletin (天理大学学報) 212:35-42,20 (2005) "It appears that from the time that Fukuno Shichirōuemon (福野七郎右衛門) was training with the Yagyū mon (柳生門 - Yagyū school), he was using the name Ryōi Shintō-ryū (良移心当流 ), and that for this method, he also mastered the ‘Jū no […]

The pictures (above) are from our last Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsu seminar, held on 29:01:2022. Our next course will be: Instructor: Peter King - Menkyo Kaiden (免許皆伝), Shihan (師範) Times: 11:00hrs - 18:00hrs (11am - 6pm) Cost: £35 Venue: Kemsing Pavilion, Heaverham Rd, Kemsing, Sevenoaks, TN15 6NE Mode: Attendance and online streaming Booking:https://www.ryoishintokai.com/product/ryoi-shinto-ryu-jujutsu-%e8%89%af%e7%a7%bb%e5%bf%83%e5%bd%93%e6%b5%81-%e6%9f%94%e8%a1%93-one-day-seminar-online-streaming-march-2022/?fbclid=IwAR3ivpR9TmGL1lFwkQdWd7LciQyaTaodXR4G1JmPO-che5Bmg7gFemDSj48

The proposed date for our next Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsu one-day course is Sunday 6th March 2022. I will be following a similar theme, by looking at Kihon (basics) movements and how those progress into more advanced applications, strategies and also weapons techniques. The aim is to build a competent core of Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsu practitioners […]

Thank you to everyone who attended (both in person and online)yesterday's Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsu (良移心当流 柔術) seminar in Kemsing, Kent..  We worked with technique applications of: Ōrō Hikkaku-ken (押籠必角見) Tenchiji, Shika Kaeri Ha (天地弛而替ハ) Shinshō No Chiken (身尚之弛見) Sayū Ran Isho (左右嵐威勝) Shiki No Shin No Kyo (四季心之居) Oto No Arashi Tenchi Kan Fuchi (音嵐天地間不弛) […]

Further to my previous posts of 16th October 2021 & 23rd January 2022, regarding 'Buke Sumo' (武家相撲 - Samurai Sumo). Buke Sumo is one of the three foundation pillars of Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsu (良移心当流 柔術), as the founder Fukuno Shichirouemon Masakatsu (福野七郎右衛門正勝) was a Sumo (相撲) ‘Meishu’ (名手 – master). The techniques are from a […]

Further to my previous post (of 16th October 2021) regarding 'Buke Sumo' (武家相撲 - Samurai Sumo), I mentioned that prior to the Edo period (1603) Buke Sumo was practiced by Bushi (Samurai) and underpinned Yoroi Kumiuchi (armoured grappling) and it was only later that sumo was practiced primarily as a wrestling sport. Buke Sumo is […]

Kubo Sadaharu (久保貞治) was the 10th generation inheritor / head (Sōke​ 宗家) of Ryōi Shintō-ryū (良移心当流) and he passed the tradition down to the 11th head; Mori Hachiroemon (森八郎右衛門). However, Kubo also taught Fujita Chōsuke Fumoto Kensada (藤田長助麓憲貞)  (Kaku Kouzo ‘Nihon Bujutsu Budo Daijiten’ (日本武術武道大事典), Tokyo, - 2015) Shinohara (2005) details this as follows: “Ryōi […]

The’ Jixiao Xinshu' (紀效新書 - New Treatise on Military Efficiency) was a comprehensive military warfare manual, written in the1560s and 1580s by Ming Dynasty General Qi Jiguan (戚繼光), who had been tasked with protecting the eastern coastline of China from attacks by Wakō (倭寇 Japanese Pirates). Chapter 14 of the 'Jixiao Xinshu'  is entitled as the […]

I am honoured and humbled to have been selected by the United Stated Ju-jitsu Federation for induction into the USA Unified Martial Arts Hall of Fame 2022. Also, my heartfelt congratulations to James Shortt for his very well deserved induction into the Hall of Fame as a "Pioneer of Jujutsu".

Further to my posts of 20th March 2021 & 20th December 2021 This is translated from a Japanese language blog, called ‘Hiromushi's diary’ (ひろむしの知りたがり日記) which was dated 10th February 2013. ://blog.goo.ne.jp/rekisisakka/ecd8ff2a08eeaec6a9308ffd523ee1683 “Shinsengumi (新選組) Jūjutsu Master Shinohara Yasunoshin (篠原泰之進) and Ryōi Shintō-ryū (良移心当流) As I wrote in my last diary, the Shinsengumi stipulated martial arts (武術 […]

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 […]

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 […]