Tenjin Shin'yo-ryu Jujutsu
天神真楊流A jujutsu school from 1830 in which Jigoro Kano trained. Judo took from it the close work, the strangles and locks, and the term randori itself.
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About Tenjin Shin'yo-ryu Jujutsu
Tenjin Shinyo-ryu is a school of jujutsu founded around 1830 by Iso Mataemon, who joined two older lineages — Yoshin-ryu and Shin no Shinto-ryu. Its importance for the history of martial arts is greater than its present fame: this is the school in which Jigoro Kano trained, and its content forms one of the two main layers from which he assembled judo in 1882. The other was Kito-ryu, from which he took the throws; from Tenjin Shinyo-ryu came the close work, the strangles and the joint locks. The school is known for its emphasis on atemi, strikes to sensitive points, of which its teaching lists a great many and which it uses to break the opponent's balance before the technique itself. Training proceeds through prescribed paired kata supplemented by freer practice called randori — a term Kano also carried into judo from here. Unlike modern combat sports the school has no competitions and no weight classes, and it survives in a small number of lineages. For a judoka it is interesting because it shows the techniques Kano deliberately left out as too dangerous. Kano trained in it under Fukuda Hachinosuke and, after his death, under Iso Masatomo; only then did he move on to Kito-ryu.
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