In the Japanese islands unarmed and lightly armed fighting systems developed under many different names. Some clans called their art Kumiuchi, others Yawara, others Kogusoku. There were many other terms specific to different styles such as Hakuda, Aikijutsu, Jujutsu, Torite Jutsu, Taijutsu and Shuhada. For the sake of simplicity most people retrospectively refer to these fighting methods as Jujutsu.
In our main system "Hakuda Kempo Toshu Jutsu" we teach the method known as Hakuda which is essentially a Japanese type of Karate. However our approach to Jujutsu includes drawing from many other styles of Jujutsu, including Judo, Aikido and Aikijujutsu.
In the late 1800s master Jigoro Kano set about unifying all the different methods of Jujutsu into his Judo school but many notable schools survived and passed on their skills unaffected by Judo.
One of Japan's earliest martial arts schools was the Hakugen Ryu, practiced by the Minamoto which later became the basis for Satsuma's Jigen Ryu which greatly influenced Toshu Jutsu.
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);
Legendary Bushi Takeda Shingen was a master of Bujutsu and an ancestor of Daito Ryu Aikijujutsu master Sokaku Takeda.
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)
2 Prince Sadazumi
3 Minamoto no Tsunemoto
4 Minamoto no Mitsunaka
5 Minamoto no Yorinobu
6 Minamoto no Yoriyoshi
7 Minamoto Yoshimitsu (founder of Daito Ryu, brother of Hakugen Ryu master Yoshiie)
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)
- Takeda passed Daito Ryu lineage onto 36th Soke Takeda Tokimune. Status of current headmastership is in dispute. The representative headteacher (38th generation) is Kondo Katsuyuki who trained under Yoshida Kotaro (see below)
Bushin Ryu Family Jujutsu Tradition
36 Yoshida Kotaro (Kyojo Dairi of Daito Ryu and also Soke of Yanagi Ryu, passed to son Kenji)
38. Gerald Skyner (senior British student of Kawaishi from 1928 to 1939)
39. Bill Nelson (student of Gerald Skyner) - First generation of family to study Jujutsu (1945) , third to study unarmed combat.
40. David Keegan & Simon Keegan (nephew-in-law and great nephew of Bill Nelson) - established Bushin Ryu. David Keegan is Principle (Shi-Fu) and Renshi Simon is Kyoju Dairi (representative headteacher)
Hiroo Mochizuki, second of three generations in the Yoseikan family tradition (his sons are Mitchi and Kyoshi) after his father Minoru Mochizuki, a student of Sokaku Takeda. Also pictured, Simon Keegan, third generation of Bushin Ryu
