Hontai Yoshin-ryu Jujutsu
本體楊心流A Japanese old school of jujutsu from the 17th century, preserved unbroken. It also trains from kneeling and sitting, the ordinary postures of a Japanese house.
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Hontai Yoshin-ryu jujutsu is a Japanese old school whose origin is placed in the seventeenth century and linked to Takagi Oriemon Shigetoshi. It belongs to the lines that have survived without interruption and are today listed among the recognised old schools; its seat is at Nishinomiya near Osaka. Its centre of gravity is jujutsu, that is unarmed work against an unarmed as well as an armed opponent, comprising locks, throws, immobilisations and strikes to sensitive places. The curriculum, however, also covers weapons: the short staff kodachi, the long staff bo, the jo, the sword and the weighted chain. It is characteristic that techniques are trained in paired kata and that from the outset it is assumed the opponent is moving and offering resistance; the school has neither free sparring nor competition. A practical trait that separates it from younger jujutsu is work from kneeling and from sitting, that is from the postures in which a person ordinarily found himself in a Japanese house. Such techniques have little use in a modern setting, but they preserve the shape in which the art arose, and it is precisely there that the school keeps its original form. The date of 1660 is approximate; the dating of the founding differs slightly between sources.
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