Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu Iroha-kun Read More

The Daitō-ryū Aikijūjutsu Irohakun 大東流合気柔術いろは訓 (The Precepts of the Fundamentals) is one of the first known booklets produced by Okuyama Sensei while he was still a student training under Matsuda Toshimi learning Daito-ryu. The recorded precepts in this manuscript use to be a closed secret passed only to students training. Okuyama authored this work in collaboration with Matsuda to make it more available.

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.

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)