Sosuishi-ryu Jujutsu
双水執流柔術A Japanese jujutsu school of the mid-seventeenth century holding unarmed and sword work together. It was originally called Futagami-ryū.
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Sōsuishi-ryū is a Japanese school of jujutsu from the middle of the seventeenth century which joins unarmed fighting to work with the sword. It was founded by Futagami Hannosuke Masaaki, a district samurai from Bungo-Taketa in the holdings of the Kuroda clan — today the prefectures of Ōita and Fukuoka. The sources give 1650 as the traditional date of founding rather than as a documented one. The school was originally called simply Futagami-ryū, after its founder. It received its present name later, by tradition after Masaaki's awakening at the Yoshino River — and that change of name is why older lists show it under both designations. The content falls into two parts. Kumi uchi is the grappling component: forty-eight kata divided into five sets according to the situation — seated, unarmed and standing, in armour, with the short sword, and miscellaneous methods. Koshi no mawari is the sword component and takes in both iaijutsu and kenjutsu; its name means literally "what is around the hips" and sums up the idea that a weapon is whatever a man has to hand at his belt. It is that joining that makes the school interesting. Where later jujutsu often cut itself off from weapons, and sword schools from grappling, Sōsuishi-ryū holds both together in the form a samurai in the field actually needed. The line later centred on Fukuoka around the Shitama family.
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