It was the culmination of a lifelong devotion to the jujutsu of the past, which he reorganized.

Weba main feature of the art is the application of the principles of nonresistance and taking advantage of the opponent's loss of equilibrium;

He was a philosopher and educator who sought to transform not just the physical.

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