Bojutsu & Jojutsu

A Koryu.com Guide

General resources

Muso Gonnosuke and the Shinto Muso-ryu Jo

Wayne Muromoto

Nishioka Tsuneo and the Pure Flow of the Jo

Wayne Muromoto

Sticks and Stones Will Break Your Bones

Meik Skoss

The Evolution of Classical Jojutsu

Dave Lowry

Uchidachi & Shidachi

Tsuneo Nishioka

Ryuha

Hontai Yoshin-ryu

early Edo period (ca. 1660)

Araki-ryu

late Muromachi period (ca. 1573)

Takenouchi-ryu

late Muromachi period (1532)

Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu

early Muromachi period (ca. 1447)

Yagyu Shinkage-ryu

late Muromachi period, ca. 1568

Uchida-ryu

Meiji period (ca. 1885)

Yagyu Shingan-ryu

early 1600s

Shinto Muso-ryu jo

early Tokugawa period (ca. 1610)