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Santō was perhaps better known as the seventh generation Headmaster of Miyamato Musashi's (宮本武蔵) famed Hyoho Niten Ichi-ryu (兵法二天一流) school of swordsmanship, [8] and while he is known to have awarded complete transmission of Yōshin-ryū to at least five students, he did not appoint an inheritor to the tradition prior his ...
Shindō Yōshin-ryū (新道楊心流), meaning "New Willow School" is a traditional school of Japanese martial arts, teaching primarily the art of jūjutsu.The first kanji of the name originally translated into "新=New", but in the mainline branch the kanji for "new" was eventually changed into the homophonic "神=sacred".
Hontai Yōshin-ryū (本體楊心流) is a traditional school of Japanese martial arts founded from the original teachings of Hontai Yoshin Takagi Ryu, c. 1660, by Takagi Shigetoshi. [1] Some sources give Takagi's middle name as Setsuemon, [ 1 ] while others give it as Oriemon.
The rivalry between the Kodokan school of judo and the Totsuka school of Yoshin-ryu jujutsu happened in the 1880s during the Meiji Era in Japan. Consisting of several challenges and tournaments, its result saw the decline of the traditional jujutsu schools and the rise of judo as an institutionalized martial art.
The four major karate styles developed in Japan, especially in Okinawa are Shotokan, Wado-ryu, Shito-ryu, and Goju-ryu; many other styles of Karate are derived from these four. [1] The first three of these styles find their origins in the Shorin-Ryu style from Shuri, Okinawa, while Goju-ryu finds its origins in Naha. Shuri karate is rather ...
Hikosuke Totsuka (戸塚 彦介, Totsuka Hikosuke, 1813–1886) was a Japanese jujutsu master of the Yoshin-ryū school. Under his leadership, the Totsuka-ha Yoshin-ryū was the largest jujutsu organization in Japan, as well as the last great school of this art, until the rise of Kodokan judo. He was reported to be one of the strongest martial ...
Takagi Yoshin-ryū ("Takagi Heart of the Willow School") is a school of Japanese martial arts. It was founded by Ito Sukesada, based on techniques that he learned from an ascetic named So Unryu. He taught this system to a samurai named Takagi Oriuemon Shingenobu, and Takagi's name was added to the school's. [ 1 ]
Yokoyama fought on behalf of the Kodokan for the first time also in 1886, when he was a part of the Kodokan team which fought the school Yoshin-ryu in the Kodokan-Totsuka rivalry. [6] His most famous opponent, however, was not a member of Yoshin-ryu, but the Ryoi Shinto-Ryu jujutsuka Hansuke Nakamura , who had been called up by Totsuka as a ...