Shinden Fudo-ryū

Shinden Fudo-ryū (Immovable Heart School) was a school of Japanese martial arts.

Shinden Fudo-ryū Dakentaijutsu
Ko-ryū
Foundation
Founder	Izumo Kanja Yoshiteru
Period founded	Yeikyu era
Current information
Current headmaster	Nagato Toshirō
Arts taught
Art	Description
Dakentaijutsu	Hybrid art
Ancestor schools
Historic Chinese martial arts, various medieval Japanese martial arts
Descendant schools
Genbukan, Jinenkan, Bujinkan, Akban

Founded in around 1113 AD by Izumo Kanja Yoshiteru, Shinden Fudō ryū is one of the oldest styles of Jujutsu. It focuses on working with one's natural surroundings, and as such most training takes place outside using natural objects as training aids. The school puts emphasis on fighting from any posture one finds themselves in at the time a fight begins, rather than needing to prepare by getting into a stance first. This allows the practitioner to remain receptive to sudden attacks. As an extension of this principle, the school has no formal stance (kamae); all techniques start from a natural, loose, standing posture.^[1] The curriculum is entirely unarmed; there are no weapons used in this system.^[2]

It was a blend of Indigenous Japanese and Chinese styles (primarily Japanese).^[2] It was NOT one of the styles studied by Edward William Barton-Wright, the founder of Bartitsu, and one of the first Westerners to practice Japanese martial arts. The style studied by William Barton-Wright was Shinden Fudō ryū Kempo, which is not connected to the Shinden Fudō ryū Dakentaijutsu.