''Takagi Yoshin-ryū'' ("Takagi Heart of the Willow School") is a school of

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. It was founded by Ito Sukesada, based on techniques that he learned from an

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named So Unryu. He taught this system to a samurai named Takagi Oriuemon Shingenobu, and Takagi's name was added to the school's. Takagi was already a teacher of ''jutaijutsu'', an unarmed grappling system similar to the Chinese art of

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. He was recognised as a

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in 1695. The Takagi-ryū was influenced by other arts, particularly

Takenouchi-ryū is one of the oldest jujutsu koryū in Japan. It was founded in 1532, the first year of Tenbun, on the twenty-fourth of the sixth lunar month by Takenouchi Chūnagon Daijō Nakatsukasadaiyū Hisamori, the lord of Ichinose Castle in Sakushū ...

and

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. A match between the headmasters of the Takagi and Kukishin styles in the 17th century led to further cross-training between the two schools.

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