Gyokko Ryu Kosshijutsu

玉虎流骨指術

Type of Ryu:         Kosshijutsu

Date founded:       ca. 1157

Originator:           Tozawa Hakuunsai

Weapons:              Metsubushi, Kyoketsu Shoge, Kakushi buki

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   Gyokko Ryu is thought to have been developed by either a smaller man or a woman with thin, light clothing, based on the movement.   It is known that there was a woman in the court of Chan’an (the capitol of the Tang Dynasty) very well known for her martial arts abilities.  When the Tang Dynasty fell in 907, many of the Chinese escaped into Japan.  The name of Cho Gyokko is associated with the art leaving China and arriving in Japan.  General Ikai is also associated with the origin of Gyokko Ryu.  The first actual Soke of what was then called Gyokko Ryu shitojutsu was Tozawa Hakuunsai.  His name suggests a connection with Hakuun Ryu Ninjutsu, which no longer exists.   This Ryu had close connections to Koto Ryu and Togakure Ryu.  Toda Shinryuken Masamitsu passed this system to Hatsumi Masaaki of the bujinkan and it is still taught today.

Gyokko Ryu Lineage

Ikai
Hogenbo
Tesshun
Sasabe, Tendo
Hachiryu, Nyudo  (inventor of Kyoketsu Shoge)
Tozawa, Hakuunsai
Tozawa, Shozuke
Suzuki, Saburo Shigeyoshi
Suzuki, Gobei
Suzuki, Kojiro Mitsu
Tozawa, Nyudo Geneai
Yamon, Hyoun
Kato, Ryu Hakuun
Sakagami, Goro Katsushige
Sakagami, Taro Kunishige
Sakagami, Kotaro Masahide
Sougyoko, Kan Ritsushi
Toda, Sakyo Ishinsai
Momochi, Sandayu 1
Momochi, Sandayu 2
Momochi, Tanba Yasumitsu
Momochi, Taro Saemon
Toda, Seiryu Nobutsuna
Toda, Fudo Nobuchika
Toda, Kangoro Nobuyasu
Toda, Eisaburo Nobumasa
Toda, Shinbei Masachika
Toda, Shingoro Masayoshi
Toda, Daigoro Chikashige
Toda, Daisaburo Chikashige
Toda, Shinryuken Masamitsu
Takamatsu, Toshitsugu
Hatsumi, Masaaki

All history is according to Hatsumi Masaaki of the Bujinkan.

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