Description
Daito-ryu jujutsu (大東流柔術) is a koryu school of jujutsu founded by Handa Yataro
(半田弥太郎) in Osaka in 1878. Handa trained in Sekiguchi Shinshin-ryu, Tenjin
Shin'yo-ryu and Shibukawa-ryu, and devised the curriculum largely from
Tenjin Shin'yo-ryu, with which it shares many technique names. He opened the
Seibukan dojo at Dojima-ura-cho, Kita-ku, Osaka and established the school
together with the Daito Bunbukan. Its students - Uyenishi Sadakazu, Taro Miyake,
Yukio Tani and Seizo Yamamoto - took the school's ground-grappling skills to
London and the wider West from 1900, and the Fusen-ryu master Mataemon Tanabe
cross-trained (degeiko) at the Seibukan, whose instruction later passed to
Tanabe's student Fushimi Tatsusaburo. Despite the similar name, it is a
different school from the Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu lineage of Takeda Sokaku.
Related styles
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Handa Yataro studied Tenjin Shin'yo-ryu under Yamana Shinkuro, Sekiguchi
Shinshin-ryu under Sekiguchi Ujitane and Shibukawa-ryu under Takenaka Isamu
before founding Daito-ryu jujutsu in 1878; JA Wikipedia emphasises the Tenjin
Shin'yo-ryu origin of the waza, while Wolf (2016) describes the school as an
obscure development of Sekiguchi-ryu jujutsu. Distinct from the Daito-ryu
Aiki-jujutsu lineage of Takeda Sokaku; no related_styles edge is asserted
between the two because the shared name is coincidental.
Sources
"The Osaka dojo that Handa opened in 1897, however, seems not to have been
affiliated with Tenshin Shin'yo-ryu, but rather a style called Daito-ryu...
an obscure development of Sekiguchi-ryu jiujitsu."
— Wolf, Tony; Bartitsu Society. (2016). New
Discoveries and Speculations re. the Submission Grappling of British Jiu-Jitsu.
The Bartitsu Societylinkinfo
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