The Hidden Roots of Aikido: Aiki Jujutsu Daitoryu

by Shiro Omiya

The Daitoryu is a brutally effective fighting method thought to have been first developed more than a thousand years ago by members of the Japanese imperial family. It was then refined and honed in great secrecy through centuries of hand-to-hand combat by highly trained warriors. Its techniques were jealously guarded until late in the nineteenth century, when it was first introduced to the world by master Sokaku Takeda, who began to accept students...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4770023278
• ISBN13: 9784770023278
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Kodansha
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.2"