Shinto Muso Ryu Jojutsu - Matsui Kenji - 36th Asakusa Kobudo Taikai (2018)

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School: Shinto Muso Ryu Jojutsu
Event: 36th Asakusa Kobudo Taikai
Date: 21/04/2018
Venue: Taito Riverside Sports Center
Representative: Matsui Kenji

-- PRESENTATION: SHINTO MUSO RYU JOJUTSU --
This school’s name can be pronounced Shinto Muso Ryu as well as Shindo Muso Ryu Jojutsu. It was founded by the famous Muso Gonnosuke Katsuyoshi at the beginning of the 17th century, after he studied for a long time to find a way to defeat the sword with a staff.
The specialty of that school is to use a combination of Tsuki (thrust), Harai (sweep) and Uchi (hit) techniques, using both sides of the staff equally. The movements are carried on continuously and should adapt to the opponent's movements and attacks naturally, as if the Jo was a part of the practitioner’s own body. That way, it becomes possible to knock down the opponent’s weapon.

Mr. Matsui Kenji, who is leading this demonstration, possesses a Japanese Menkyo of the Fukuoka line of the Shinto Muso Ryu, along with a Menkyo of Asayama Ichiden-ryu. He was a student of Takaji Shimizu and Ichizo Otofuji. He is also a scholar and author of several works on Shinto Muso Ryu’s history and lineage.

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