Aikido
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Aikido is a modern Japanese martial art which is split into many different styles including Aikikai, Shodokan Aikido, Yoshinkan, Renshinkai, Iwama Ryu, Iwama Shin Shin Aiki Shuren Kai, and Ki Aikido.
A version of the "four-direction throw" (shihōnage) with standing attacker (Uke) and seated defender (Tori)
Ueshiba in Tokyo in 1939
Takeda Sōkaku
Onisaburo Deguchi
Jujutsu
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Jujutsu, also known as jiu-jitsu or ju-jitsu, is a Japanese martial art and a system of close combat that can be used in a defensive or offensive manner. A subset of techniques from certain styles of
Aikido
…a distinct discontinuity with past martial and philosophical concepts. In other words, aikido practitioners who focus on aikido's roots in traditional jujutsu or kenjutsu are said to be diverging from what Ueshiba taught, as some critics urge practitioners: [Ueshiba's] transcendence to the spiritual and…
Jujutsu training at an agricultural school in Japan around 1920
Competition at the 8th Annual West Japan Jujitsu Championship in Hiroshima, 2010
Demonstration of a jujutsu defense against a knife attack, Berlin 1924
1911 French publication on jujutsu