Yotsume Dojo

School for Japanese Martial Arts and Healing Arts

The Yotsume Dojo and SOJHA (School of Japanese Healing Arts) are both my schools for Japanese martial arts and various bodywork arts such as Koho Anma, Sokushindo, Kotsuban Yumeiho (Seitai), and Anpuku. My martial school and private clinic are located in Fountain Hills, Arizona

Forging (by heating yourself in a fire) a clear road ahead is found! Let us never forget that the focal point in a Japanese Dojo is the “Kagami” mirror. We must train to keep our mirror clean so we can reflect well. This term can be broken also into three characters of Ka, Ga, and Mi. This is at the very “heart” of why we train!

SOJHA "School of Japanese Healing Arts"

The School of Japanese Healing Arts (SOJHA) is my private school for teaching various courses for Japanese healing arts such as: Koho Anma (Traditional Japanese Massage), Sokushindo (Japanese Foot Reflexology), Kotsuban Yumeiho, and Anpuku Ryoho (Abdominal Therapy). My school and private clinic are located in beautiful Fountain Hills, Arizona. After teaching for many years at various western massage schools here in Arizona, years ago I had decided to open my own private school dedicated to the healing arts that I train in Japan. I teach students to focus on true skill development and mastery. How I learn in Japan is how I teach to my private students.

I will be posting soon about the various trainings and workshops you can arrange with me. Training always begins with the art of Anma, then moves to Anpuku therapy, and then into the art of Sokushindo. These three arts together with a balanced way a life, natural exercise methods, and natural food as medicine (Seishoku) help to secure recovery from various illnesses and maintain your functional health into old age.

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Goshindo Magazine

Hakko-ryu Goshindo Issue 68 (1970)

Hakko-ryu Goshindo Issue 68 (1970) Read More

In this special issue Hakko-ryu Goshindo 八光流護身道 magazine, Okuyama Sensei features both Shihan Junji Saito and my teacher Mike Depasquale Sr. There are articles and photos included that Saito Sensei sent to his cousin, the founder in Japan as a report of the teaching and training he was doing at the Yoshitsune Dojo and other locations he was teaching at in New York.

This issue’s medical focus is on if Koho Shiatsu can cure heart disease and prevent this illness from causing sudden death.

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Hakko-ryu

Hakkō-ryū Jūjutsu Hiden no Koto 八光流柔術秘傳之事

Hakkō-ryū Jūjutsu Hiden no Koto 八光流柔術秘傳之事 Read More

This is the first scroll one is awarded after being initiated into Shihan training. The founder of the school, Shodai Soke Okuyama, grew more and more as a pacifist as the years went on. Sometime in the 1970s he made the decision to remove many of the original, more dangerous techniques from his school’s curriculum. New Shihan in Hakko-ryu mostly receive the newer reproduced version of this scroll that has these techniques removed.

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Shin Eki Shindan Ho
Hakko-ryu

Shin Eki Shindan Hō

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First ever English translation of Shodai Soke Okuyama’s book titled Shin Eki Shindan Hō 新易診断法 (New Easy Methods of Diagnosis). Medicine and medical sciences are intended to cure the disorders of life and to promote the development of life from the root. For this purpose, it is necessary to ensure the accuracy of diagnosis. In addition to pathological diagnosis, we can be certain of the cause and site of the disease by palpation or observation of the reactions in the nails and skin, pulse, muscles, and bones, as in the therapeutic diagnosis in our own Oriental medicine. In order to ensure that the analogy is correct, it is possible to hit the nail on the head with an accurate diagnosis when the changes in the body’s overall condition are first analogized by applying each of the dialectic formulas.

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Kukishin-ryu

Shinden Bujutsu

Shinden Bujutsu Read More

Here is my translation project of the contents of the main Kukishin-ryu book produced by Takatsuka Sensei, headmaster of the Tenshin Hyoho Kukishin-ryū. There are some very important points detailed in the book, including the founding of the school, its history, development, revitalization, curriculum, and Koshinto spiritual training aspects.

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Hakko-ryu

Hakko-ryu Hiden Kaisetsu

Hakko-ryu Hiden Kaisetsu Read More

I have begun to translate for the first time into English this very important manuscript produced by Shodai Soke Okuyama Ryuho on the secrets of his Hakko-ryu. This manuscript is broken into four sections where Okuyama Sensei gives an overview explanation of the secret points for each of the main areas of training in this school included in this manuscript. Goshinjutsu, Taihojutsu, Jujutsu, Koho Shiatsu Igaku, and his views of how to train the general public.

Goshin Taiho no Hiden 護身逮捕の秘伝 (Secrets of Self-Defense Arresting)
Hakkō Ryū Jūjutsu 八光流柔術 (Eighth Light System of Self-Defense)
Bunkabito no Jōshiki 文化人の常識 (Common Sense of Cultured People)
Kohō Shiatsu Rinshō Iten 皇法指圧臨床医典 (Imperial Law Finger Pressure Clinical Medical Dictionary)

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