SHINDO YOSHINRYU JUJUTSU

The founder of Wado Ryu karate Hironori Ohtsuka said and wrote on many occasions that he had trained in Shindo Yoshin Ryu Jujutsu under Nakayama Tatsusaburo (1870-1933). It is quite natural that our interest extends to Shindo Yoshin Ryu Jujutsu and Nakayama Tatsusaburo, our roots.Shindo Yoshin Ryu Jujutsu was founded by Matsuoka Katsunosuke (1836-1898)
He was a doctor (in Chinese medicine), and studied Tenjin Shinyo Ryu Jujutsu and Yoshin Koryu Jujutsu together with Jikishinkage Ryu kenjutsu and Hokushin Ittoryu kenjutsu. He was fully licensed in Tenjin Shinyo Ryu jujutsu in 1855 and opened a dojo of Tenjin Shinyo Ryu in Tokyo in 1858.

In 1864 he started his own style of jujutsu, Shindo Yoshin Ryu and in 1870 he opened the Shindokan Matsuoka dojo where he taught both kenjutsu and jujutsu.

Matsuoka Katsunosuke founded Shindo Yoshin Ryu, but it has a long historical background that comes from the stream of Yoshin Ryu Jujutsu.

Unfortunately there is not very much material regarding Shindo Yoshin Ryu except the names of techniques. The terminology in Shindo Yoshin Ryu is quite identical with that in Tenjin Shinyo Ryu, which is quite natural when you look at the historical background. Today Tenjin Shinyo Ryu group is quite active and annually demonstrating at the Budokan. A book about Tenjin Shinyo Ryu was published in 1893. Punch and kicks are included in any jujutsu school, but it seems like these are used more in the Yoshin Ryu stream. The impression is that the techniques that are used in Kihon Kumite such as escaping (Nogare), avoiding (Sabaki), floating (Nori) and sweeping away (Nagashi) are often used in kenjutsu. This is because Nakayama Tatsusaburo was a kendo instructor who trained in Jikishin Kageryu and Onoha Ittoryu kenjutsu. There is monument to the memory of Nakayama in Shimotsuma.

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