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Tony Annesi
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Date Posted: 07:41:17 06/10/04 Thu
In reply to:
Liam Graham
's message, "Aiki Ju-jutsu" on 11:10:05 05/25/04 Tue
Hi Corey & Liam,
I normally don't post to a lot of sites (too much to do and too little of interest) but Liam's aiki-ju-jutsu question caught my eye.
There were two strains of ju-jutsu in old Japan: an indigenous strain (that developed into aiki arts) and a younger strain that had two origins, one of which was China, the other Japan. The latter strain merged and developed numerous ju-jutsu styles. The former strain, although probably influenced by other styles as most styles are, developed separately among the upper classes. This strain was known at various times by various names: Oshiki-uchi, for example.
Its putative orgins were in the royal court aorund 800 AD but that can't be completely verified. Its later development was in the "Great Eastern" style (Daito-ryu) of the Takeda family.
Sokaku TAKEDA taught various techniques to various students in various parts of Japan. That is why we now have numerous styles of aiki-ju-jutsu. One of his students was Kotaro YOSHIDA who introduced Morihei UESHIBA to TAKEDA.
UESHIBA studied for a condensed time under TAKEDA and then went on to found Ueshiba-ha Aiki-ju-jutsu, later changed to Ueshiba Aikidbudo, later changed to Aikido. Aikido is therefore a cousin art to various styles of Aiki-ju-jutsu.
The term "aiki" was used, in passing, in a technical document (I assume from the Daito-ryu) and, I suppose, because it was unique, became identified with the Daito-ryu strain.
Nowadays Daito divides its techniques into Ju-jutsu, Aiki-ju-jutsu and Aiki-no-jutsu.
Daito is a ju-jutsu but from a totally different strain than the Kito-ryu and Tenshin Shin'yo ryu ju-jutsu that spawned Judo.
Hope that helps.
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