Kyūshin-ryū

A Jūjutsu Close to the Kitō Line

Kyūshin-ryū is a school of Japanese jūjutsu founded by Inugami Nagayasu, who learned Kitō-ryū grappling under Takino Yūken in Kyōto. Its techniques closely resemble the Kitō-ryū, and Ryūpedia records no surviving independent line, remembering it as one of the many Edo-period jūjutsu traditions absorbed into the wider current of Japanese grappling.

A jūjutsu close to the Kitō line

Kyūshin-ryū (扱心流) is a school of Japanese jūjutsu founded by Inugami Nagayasu, who learned the Kitō-ryū of grappling under Takino Yūken in Kyōto before shaping his own tradition. Its techniques are noted for their close resemblance to Kitō-ryū jūjutsu, and in the school's own genealogy Inugami Nagayasu is counted not as the first head but as a later successor to an earlier line.

Grappling of the Edo period

Kyūshin-ryū took form during the Edo period, when the grappling schools codified throws, joint techniques and methods of control drawn from the older battlefield arts. Like many jūjutsu traditions of its day, its detailed early history is preserved chiefly through the school's own transmission, so Ryūpedia treats the founding generations with due caution.

A grappling art built in the shadow of the influential Kitō-ryū.

A tradition no longer independently carried

Ryūpedia records no surviving independent Kyūshin-ryū headship. The school is remembered as one of the many Edo-period jūjutsu lines whose methods echoed the influential Kitō-ryū, and whose principles were absorbed into the wider current of Japanese grappling.