Takagi Yōshin-ryū is a jūtaijutsu (jujutsu) school taught in the Bujinkan, Genbukan, and Jinenkan Jujutsu Renmei. The techniques are designed to be applied in a very fast manner so the opponent cannot roll or escape. It is believed that it was a school for bodyguards.
Takagi is a Japanese family name meaning "tall trees", while yōshin translates as "spirit of the willow tree." It is so named because a willow tree is flexible and thus harder to break.
1. Hira No Kamae (Natural Posture); Standing straight up, knees slightly bent, hands relaxed at sides.
2. Moko No Kamae (Mad Tiger Posture); As in Ihen No Kamae, both hands held at sides presenting the head as a target.
3. Seiza No Kamae (Seated Posture); Seated with toes down
4. Seigan No Kamae (Correct Eye Posture); Hand at tsukikage.
NOTE: Combine all so that they are postures not poses.A: Seiza, step up to grab left mune.
D: Seiza, grab hand under, step up right, ura shuto to right kasumi, ura gyaku, right geri to sugetsu, take down with ura gyaku and secure with knees leaving hands free.
A: Seiza, step up to right tsuki to sugetsu (or grab for sword).
D: Seiza, step up left, grab tsuki with right hand, put left knee to his knee, left grab his left collar (palm out), twist to jime and take down backwards, lever right arm over knee to take face down, secure with knees. Do is inside back of arm, Gaeshi is lifting the arm. This point can also be used to restrain.
A: Walk up to right keri.
D: Seiza, step out left, uke and grab with arm, ura gyaku to ashi, stand up, shuto to ryuge.
A: Tsuki to groin
D: Slap then grab kote while turning, ura gyaku to take down, geri to butsumetsu.
A: Left mune dori and tsuki.
D: Cover dori, shuto to kasumi, ura gyaku and grab ryumon at same time, geri to kaku, step back to take face down.
A: Double mune dori.
D: Step back right, shikan ken to omotegyaku, fudo ken to asagasumi (do not step), geri to kaku, step back to take face down.
A: Walking away, turn left to see.
D: Tap on left daimon, right grab to collar, pull down, right geri to left ankle to take down, (can also grab shoulder and land with body on neck).
A: Full nelson (kubi shime)(without hands joined), pull back arms.
D: Push ebows, ura kikaku ken to tenmon, right grab right hand, step right, back of fudo ken to tenmon, nage with takeing over head into ura gyaku.
A: Walking passed on right.
D: As A's right arm swings forward grab and lift up, left shuki ken to butsumetsu, swing arm back down and right geri to right foot to down.
A: Walk up and right hook tsuki.
D: Step in right, uke with left forearm and fudo ken to jinchu, right sokuyaku geri to left koe.
A: Right tsuki
D: Left uke, step between legs and behind right foot with right foot putting sokki ken on kaku, happa ken to asagasumi, increase pressure on kaku, left lifting geri to foot (ko soto) to take down backwards.
A: Tsuki to gorin while standing close.
D: Twist to right (omote), do ura gyaku and take to floor, drop weight to koppo hijizume and sokugyaku geri to butsumetsu.
A: Sits in seiza, step out left to right uke.
D: Walk up and right geri to sugetsu, left nage no kamae, right dori right hand, lift over head in omote gyaku, step forward on knees, take down backwards, secure with ude jime.