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.

Shin Eki Shindan Hō Read More

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.