歴史-History -

Inugami Sakon Shōgen Nagakatsu studied grappling (Kumiuchi) from a fellow Imperial Guard, Hayami Nagato no Kami Enshin, and by combining it with his family’s sword tradition, he created Kumiuchi Kenden. This system continued to be transmitted and further developed within his family line.
Through his descendants it gave birth to the Kyūshin and Kyūshin Ichi-ryū schools, which some of it’s Jūjutsu techniques were later incorporated into modern Jūdō.

In the Edo period, this system reached the Kobashi family of Sanuki (today’s Kagawa Prefecture, Shikoku) where it went through a reform process that incorporated knowledge from various other old schools into the ancient Enshin Ryū.

Enshin Ryū’s Lineage Keizu