A picture of some of Japan's leading masters of Jujutsu, Hakuda & Yawara in Kyoto 1906.
Pictured on front row from left:
Katsuta Hiratsuka (Yoshin Ryu); Koji Yano (Takeouchi Ryu); Jushin Sekiguchi (Sekiguchi Ryu); Hidemi Totska (Yoshin Ryu); Jigoro Kano (Judo); Kumon Hoshino (Shiten Ryu); Takayoshi Katayama (Yoshin Ryu); Yazo Eguchi (Kyushin Ryu);
Pictured on back row from left:
Yoshimaki Yamashita (Judo); Hajima Isagao (Judo); Sakugiro Yokoyama (Judo); Shuichi Nagaoka (Judo); Shikataro Takano (Takeouchi Ryu); Mataemon Tanabe (Fusen Ryu); Kotaro Imei (Takeouchi Ryu); Hoken Sato (Judo); Hikosaburo Oshima (Takeouchi Ryu); Mogichi Tsumiyzu (Sekiguchi Ryu); Kehei Aoyagi (Sosuishi Ryu)
Saigo Tanomo, Master of Oshikiuchi (1829-1905)
Takeda Sokaku, Master of Daito Ryu (1860-1943)
Jigoro Kano, Judo Founder (1860-1938)
Ueshiba Morihei, Founder of Aikido (1883-1969)
Yoshida Kotaro, Master of Daito Ryu & Yanagi Ryu (1883-1966)
Kawaishi Mikonosuke, Master of Kawaishi Ryu, Daito Ryu & Judo (1899-1969)
and Mochizuki Minoru, Founder of Yoseikan & Co-Founder of Nihon Jujutsu (1907-2003)
Aikijujutsu & Nihon Jujutsu Lineages
1 Emperor Seiwa
2 Prince Sadazumi
3 Minamoto no Tsunemoto
4 Minamoto no Mitsunaka
5 Minamoto no Yorinobu
6 Minamoto no Yoriyoshi
7 Minamoto Yoshimitsu
8 Takeda Yoshikiyo
9 Takeda Kiyomitsu
10 Takeda Nobuyoshi
11 Takeda Nobumitsu
12 Takeda Nobumasa
13 Takeda
14 Takeda
15 Takeda
16 Takeda
17 Takeda
18 Takeda
19 Takeda Nobumitsu
20 Takeda
21 Takeda
22 Takeda
23 Takeda
24 Takeda Nobutora
25 Takeda Shingen
26 Takeda Kunitsugu
27 Takeda Chikara & Hoshina Masayuki (Oshiuchi)
28 Takeda Nobutsugu & Hoshina Masatune (Oshiuchi)
29 Takeda & Matsudaira Masayoshi (Oshiuchi)
30 Takeda & Matsudaira Yoshizumi (Oshiuchi)
31 Takeda & Matsudaira Yoshichika (Oshiuchi)
32 Takeda & Matsudaira Yoshitaka (Oshiuchi)
33 Takeda Soemon & Matsudaira Yoshiyasu (Oshiuchi)
34 Saigo Shiro (Oshiuchi)
2 Prince Sadazumi
3 Minamoto no Tsunemoto
4 Minamoto no Mitsunaka
5 Minamoto no Yorinobu
6 Minamoto no Yoriyoshi
7 Minamoto Yoshimitsu
8 Takeda Yoshikiyo
9 Takeda Kiyomitsu
10 Takeda Nobuyoshi
11 Takeda Nobumitsu
12 Takeda Nobumasa
13 Takeda
14 Takeda
15 Takeda
16 Takeda
17 Takeda
18 Takeda
19 Takeda Nobumitsu
20 Takeda
21 Takeda
22 Takeda
23 Takeda
24 Takeda Nobutora
25 Takeda Shingen
26 Takeda Kunitsugu
27 Takeda Chikara & Hoshina Masayuki (Oshiuchi)
28 Takeda Nobutsugu & Hoshina Masatune (Oshiuchi)
29 Takeda & Matsudaira Masayoshi (Oshiuchi)
30 Takeda & Matsudaira Yoshizumi (Oshiuchi)
31 Takeda & Matsudaira Yoshichika (Oshiuchi)
32 Takeda & Matsudaira Yoshitaka (Oshiuchi)
33 Takeda Soemon & Matsudaira Yoshiyasu (Oshiuchi)
34 Saigo Shiro (Oshiuchi)
35 Takeda Sokaku (combined his grandfather's Daido Ryu & Saigo's Oshikiuchi to form Daito Ryu)
- Takeda passed Daito Ryu lineage onto 36th Soke Takeda Tokimune
- Takeda passed Daito Ryu lineage onto 36th Soke Takeda Tokimune
Systems derived from Daito Ryu
Gen 36. ---- Yoshida Kotaro (also Soke of Yanagi Ryu. Received Kyujo Dairi)
37. ------Mikonosuke Kawaishi (student of Kotaro. Later 7th Dan with Kodokan)
38. ------Gerald Skyner (senior British student of Kawaishi)
------Bill Nelson (student of Skyner)
38. ------Gerald Skyner (senior British student of Kawaishi)
------Bill Nelson (student of Skyner)
Gen 36. ---- Morihei Ueshiba (founder of Aikido, a senior student of Takeda)
37. Kishomaru Ueshiba
38. Moriteru Ueshiba
39. Mitsuteru Ueshiba
37. ------Minoru Mochizuki (founder of Yoseikan & Nihon Jujutsu )
38 --------Hiroo Mochizuki, Mitsuhiro Kondo, Tetsugi Murikami
37. ------Kenji Tomiki (founder of Shodokan)
38 -------Shizuya Sato (founder of Nihon Jujutsu)
37.-----Kenshiro Abbe
Bushin Ryu Family Jujutsu Tradition
38. Bill Nelson (First generation Shodai - Family Jujutsu tradition)
39. David Keegan (Second generation Shifu - Family Jujutsu tradition)
40. Simon Keegan (Third generation Renshi - Family Jujutsu tradition)
- Graded 2nd Dan and awarded Menkyo Mokuroku by Jamie Lee-Barron (G39) whose teacher Michael Finn (G38) was a student of Kenji Tomiki (G37); and George Scarrott (G39) whose teacher Brian Dossett was student of Ken Williams (G38), who in turn was taught by Kenshiro Abbe (G37), student of Morihei Ueshiba (G36)
- Grade ratified in Nihon Jujutsu division of IMAF founder by Shizuya Sato (Sato Ryu) and Minoru Mochizuki (Gyokushin Ryu). Both Sato and Mochizuki were also Judo students of Kyuzo Mifune (student of Kano)
- Trained on seminars with direct students of Morihei Ueshiba, Mochizuki, and with Kondo
39. David Keegan (Second generation Shifu - Family Jujutsu tradition)
40. Simon Keegan (Third generation Renshi - Family Jujutsu tradition)
- Graded 2nd Dan and awarded Menkyo Mokuroku by Jamie Lee-Barron (G39) whose teacher Michael Finn (G38) was a student of Kenji Tomiki (G37); and George Scarrott (G39) whose teacher Brian Dossett was student of Ken Williams (G38), who in turn was taught by Kenshiro Abbe (G37), student of Morihei Ueshiba (G36)
- Grade ratified in Nihon Jujutsu division of IMAF founder by Shizuya Sato (Sato Ryu) and Minoru Mochizuki (Gyokushin Ryu). Both Sato and Mochizuki were also Judo students of Kyuzo Mifune (student of Kano)
- Trained on seminars with direct students of Morihei Ueshiba, Mochizuki, and with Kondo
Hiroo Mochizuki, second of three generations in the Yoseikan family tradition (his sons are Mitchi and Kyoshi) and Simon Keegan, third generation of Bushin Ryu
The million dollar question: "What is Jujutsu?"
Jujutsu is a collective term given to methods of unarmed or lightly armed combat developed in Japan. Jujutsu can refer to battlefield arts developed with the armed and armoured Samurai in mind; it can refer to self defence techniqes designed for civil use and possibly developed in peacetimes and it can refer to recreational grappling arts that may be considered Japanese wrestling. Jujutsu is related to but distinct from Japanese arts such as Judo, Aikido and Sumo. "Jujutsu" is a term that is retrospectively applied to arts that may not have used the term at the time. Some schools may have referred to their art form using any of the following terms:
- Yoroi Kumiuchi (grappling in armour)
- Tegoi (recreational grappling related to Sumoi)
- Taijutsu (body art, nowadays synonymous with unarmed aspects of Ninjutsu)
- Hakuda (white hands. A percussive form particular to the Nagasaki area)
- Yawara (Japanese reading of the Chinese character "Ju" used by Yagyu Shingan Ryu and others in the greater Tokyo area. Now famously taught by Hanshi Terry Wingrove who learnt the art from Sato Kinbei)
- Jujutsu (a term that came into vogue at the end of the Tokugawa period)
- Torite Jutsu (a form emphasising body-grappling much like Greco-Roman wrestling)
- Aikijujutsu (a method developed in the Aizu area. Particular to Takeda, Saigo and Yoshida)
- Judo (a term used prior to Kodokan Judo by the Kito Ryu school)
- Tegoi (recreational grappling related to Sumoi)
- Taijutsu (body art, nowadays synonymous with unarmed aspects of Ninjutsu)
- Hakuda (white hands. A percussive form particular to the Nagasaki area)
- Yawara (Japanese reading of the Chinese character "Ju" used by Yagyu Shingan Ryu and others in the greater Tokyo area. Now famously taught by Hanshi Terry Wingrove who learnt the art from Sato Kinbei)
- Jujutsu (a term that came into vogue at the end of the Tokugawa period)
- Torite Jutsu (a form emphasising body-grappling much like Greco-Roman wrestling)
- Aikijujutsu (a method developed in the Aizu area. Particular to Takeda, Saigo and Yoshida)
- Judo (a term used prior to Kodokan Judo by the Kito Ryu school)
-Kempo (a term used to denote percussive skills of Chinese origin. Lit: Fist Law)
- Suhada Jujutsu (a type of Jujutsu practiced in peacetimes rather than on the battlefield)
- Suhada Jujutsu (a type of Jujutsu practiced in peacetimes rather than on the battlefield)
Arts that developed largely or in part from Jujutsu:
- Judo
- Aikido
- Nihon Jujutsu
- Brazilian Jujutsu
- Yoseikan Budo
- Wado Ryu Karate
- Ninpo Taijutsu
- Aikido
- Nihon Jujutsu
- Brazilian Jujutsu
- Yoseikan Budo
- Wado Ryu Karate
- Ninpo Taijutsu
