JUJUTSU

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The origin of jujutsu is related thus: There once lived in Nagasaki a physician named Akiyama, who went to China to study medicine.
In support of this position, we remark first that jujutsu, as practiced in Japan, is not known in China.
The originators of new schools seem often times to have made history to suit their own purposes, and thus the materials for a consistent and clear account of the origin and rise of jujutsu are very scanty.
Believing that many diseases arose from not using mind and body together, he invented some methods of jujutsu.
As Chinese arts and Chinese civilizations were highly esteemed by the Japanese, in order to give prestige to the art, jujutsu may have been ascribed to a Chinese origin.
While the old form, jujutsu, was studied solely for fighting purposes, Kano's new system is found to promote the mental as well as the physical faculties.
He became the teacher of jujutsu in a school founded by one of the Tokugawa shoguns for different arts of warfare.
It seems to us that the art is Japanese in origin and development for the following reasons: An art of defense without weapons is common in all countries in a more or less developed state, and in Japan the feudal state would necessarily develop jujutsu.
In the Bujutsu riu soroku, a book of biographies of the originators of different schools of the arts of Japanese warfare, exactly the same account is given of the origin of kogusoku, and a similar account of jujutsu; and it is also stated that the time in which Miura lived was about 1560.
Jujutsu is an art of fighting without weapons and sometimes with small weapons much practiced by the samurai, and less generally the common people in the times of the Tokugawas.
There are other accounts of the origin of jujutsu given by various schools of the art, to which we must now turn.
We shall first give an historical sketch of jujutsu, giving an account of the various schools to which it has given rise, and revert briefly in the sequel to the form into which it has been developed at the present time.
The existence of Japanese wrestling from very early times, which in some respects resembles jujutsu.
Having thus discussed in a brief way the origin of jujutsu, and what jujutsu is in general way, we shall now turn to the different schools and the differences which are said to exist between the several names of the art mentioned above.
Jujutsu and the origins of Judo
We believe then that jujutsu is a Japanese art, which could have been developed to its present perfection without any aid from China, although we admit that Chingempin, or some Chinese book in kenpo may have given a stimulus to its development.
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The art taught by Miura was named wa (which is equivalent to yawara), and the art taught by Terada was named ju (which is equivalent to jujutsu).
Shibukawa Bangoro, Who studied the art from his first son Sekiguchi Hachirozaemon, became the founder of another great school of jujutsu known after him as the Shibukawaryu.
The origin of ju, which is equivalent to jujutsu, is traced to these three men, from whom it spread throughout the country.
In the Taiiroku it is denied that Chingempin introduced jujutsu into Japan-but while affirming that Akiyama introduced some features of the art from China, it adds, "it is a shame to our country" to ascribe the origin of jujutsu to China.
Although we admit that Chingempin may have introduced kempo to Japan, it is extremely difficult to look upon jujutsu in any sense a development of kempo.
There he learned an art called hakuda which consisted of kicking and striking, differing, we may note, from jujutsu, which is mainly seizing and throwing.
Since the abolition of the Feudal System the art has for some time been out of use, but at the present time it has become very popular in Japan, though with some important modifications, as a system of athletics, and its value as a method for physical training has been recognized by the establishment of several schools of jujutsu and judo in the capital.
Besides, a student in China, according to the books of instruction, is expected to learn and practice the art by himself, while in jujutsu it is essential that two men shall practice together.
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He first studied Yoshinryu under Hitotsuyanagi Oriye and then shin no shinto ryu (one of the schools of jujutsu which has developed out of Yoshinryu) from Homma Joyemon, He then went to different parts of the country to try his art with other masters, and finally formed a school of his own and named it tenjin shinyoryu.
Jujutsu has been known from feudal times under various names, such as yawara, tai-jutsu, kogusoku, kempo and hakuda.

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In reality jujutsu doesn't really describe a single combat method or specific art.
In the late 1800's and early 20th Century, derivatives of earlier systems emerged, such as judo, aikido, and Brazilian jujutsu --- whose primary focus was spiritual, ethical and personal development in addition to self-defense.
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Later, after 1600, many jujutsu systems (under many names) developed separately to address the needs of empty hand self-defense.
Jujutsu's arsenal, depending on the method and style, included a wide variety of arm manipulations and joint locks, striking, kicking, kneeing, throwing, tripping, and incapacitation techniques.
The concept of With all this diversity, number and types of jujutsu of systems that existed or still exist, it helpful to understand their classification under the term jujitsu by looking at the term itself.
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Eventually more than 750 schools of jujutsu were officially documented in Japan each usually stressed several of these specialties.
Jujutsu has evolved over the centuries from a military art to a sport
We therefore begin to see jujutsu as meaning technique", art," or technique," amongst others.
In Japan, however, jujutsu has evolved through several distinct stages.
Jujutsu: The Evolving Art Part I - Introduction and Overview By Tom Ross Christopher Caile When most people hear the term jujutsu, they think of an empty handed method of self-defense whereby a tiny defender neatly dispatches much larger opponents, both unarmed and armed, with a series of deftly timed throwing techniques and chops to the body.
Jigoro Kano (the founder of judo which was derived from several earlier jujutsu systems), for example, noted that jujutsu was not an art strictly comprised of.
During the long periods of Japanese internal warfare up until around 1600, jujutsu techniques were most often used as a useful adjunct to weapons systems, such as the sword.