Yōshin-ryū
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Yōshin-ryū (楊心流) ("The School of the Willow Heart") is a common name for one of several different martial traditions founded in Japan during the Edo period. The most popular and well-known was the Yōshin-ryū founded by physician Akiyama Shirōbei Yoshitoki at Nagasaki Kyushu in 1642. The Akiyama line of Yōshin-ryū is perhaps the most influential school of jūjutsu to have existed in Japan. By the late Edo Period, Akiyama Yōshin-ryū had spread from its primary base in Fukuoka Prefecture Kyushu throughout Japan. By the Meiji era, Yōshin-ryū had spread overseas to Europe and North America, and to Australia and South Africa by the late Shōwa era.
Yōshin-ryū (楊心流) | |
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Ko-ryū | |
Foundation | |
Founder | Akiyama Shirōbei Yoshitoki |
Date founded | mid 17th century |
Period founded | Early Edo period (1600–1867) |
Current information | |
Current headmaster | Koyama Noriko (Naginatajutsu),[1] Maeda Hiroya (Jujutsu),[2] Shibata Benjiro (Jujutsu)[3] Masuda Kōichi (Hanbojutsu)[4] |
Arts taught | |
Art | Description |
Jujutsu | Comprehensive art |
Ancestor schools | |
Sekiguchi-ryū, Yoshida-ryū, Chinese boxing (from Chin Genpin) | |
Descendant schools | |
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Together with the Takenouchi-ryū (竹内流), and the Ryōi Shintō-ryū (良移心当流), the Yōshin-ryū (楊心流), was one of the three largest, most important and influential jūjutsu schools of the Edo period (江戸時代 Edo jidai 1603 - 1868) before the rise of judo.[5]