Yawara — the classical reading of the
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June 2026
Totsuka-ha Yōshin-ryū jūjutsu was taught at the Kōbusho and lasted only about a year and five months before being dropped.
☰ Kitō-ryū
June 2026
Kitō-ryū was taught at the Kōbusho by Motoyama Shōō (本山正翁) and Iikubo Tsunetoshi (飯久保恒年) — the latter was later best known as Kanō Jigorō’s teacher.
June 2026
Some details of the formative years of Matsuoka Katsunosuke, founder of Shindō Yōshin-ryū jūjutsu.
October 2025
We examine some features of armed and unarmed grappling and small weapon styles from the medieval period to modernity and draw some parallels and distinctions between them, especially as related to combat sport and contemporary military practices.
February 2017
Collected thoughts on the historical influence of Chinese martial arts on Japanese jujutsu and how they relate to the topic of aiki in Aikidō and Daitō-ryū. What interested me about internal martial arts and how I have related that experience to my practice of Japanese budō.
January 2013
In Baltimore, after leaving my first dōjō in NYC, I continued to work on refining the modern goshin-jutsu 護身術 methods I had first learned with my colleague Ben Lawner. The result was a smaller curriculum informed by our practice of Gao lineage bagua.
July 2012
Some notes on NYC area Aiki-jūjutsu from the 1980s and 1990s.
March 2008
An examination of Bāguàzhǎng body mechanics compared to modern kempō. A discussion of power generation in internal martial arts. How training in internal martial arts changed my Aikidō.