Tagaki Yoshin-ryū

Tagaki Yoshin-ryū ("Tagaki Heart of the Willow School") was a school of Japanese martial arts. It was founded by Ito Sukesada, based on techniques that he learned from an ascetic named So Unryu. He taught this system to a samurai named Tagaki Oriuemon Shingenobu, and Tagaki's name was added to the school's.[1] Tagaki was already a teacher of jutaijutsu, an unarmed grappling system similar to the Chinese art of taijiquan.[2] He was recognised as a shihan by Emperor Higashiyama in 1695.[1]

The Tagaki ryū was influenced by other arts, particularly Takenouchi-ryū and Kukishin-ryū. A match between the headmasters of the Tagaki and Koshin styles in the 17th century led to further cross-training between the two schools.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Remigiusz Borda; Marian Winiecki (18 March 2014). The Illustrated Ninja Handbook: Hidden Techniques of Ninjutsu. Tuttle Publishing. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-1-4629-1426-5.
  2. ↑ Glenn Morris (31 March 1995). Shadow Strategies of an American Ninja Master. Frog Books. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-1-883319-29-8.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.