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Daitō-ryū (大東流), aiki-jūjutsu, originally known as Daito ryu jujitsu, occurs as Japanese martial art that first became widely known in a early 20th century under the headmastership of Sokaku Takeda (武田惣角). Takeda got extensive step by step instruction within many martial arts (including Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage ryu & sumo) & referred to a style he taught when Daito Ryu. Although a ryu's traditions claim to extend back centuries around Japanese history no known extant records on a ryu prior to Sokaku Takeda. Whether he is repute a renovator even or founder of a art, the known history of Daito ryu begins using Sokaku Takeda. Mayhap a best known student of Sokaku Takeda was Morihei Ueshiba, founder of aikido.
Sokaku Takeda's third boy, Tokimune Takeda, became a schoolmaster of a art charted the demise of Sokaku Takeda inside 1943. Tokimune Takeda taught what he known as Aikibudo, an art that involved a blade techniques of a Ono-ha Itto ryu along by using the traditional techniques of Daito ryu aikijujutsu. It was besides under Tokimune Takeda's headmastership that modern dan rankings were first created & awarded to students. Tokimune Takeda died inside 1993. Additionally to a mainline ryu under the Takeda personal, there survive many branch organizations of Daito ryu that maintain their have hierarchy & syllabus.
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