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Jodo has roots in the Japanese martial arts that go back many years. In the latter half of the fifteenth century, Muso Gonosuke Katsuyoshi, a student of the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-Ryu, founded the Muso Shindo Ryu, a school that devised the dynamic art of jo-jutsu. The legend tells that Gonosuke was the only person that could ever defeat the famous swordsman Myamoto Musashi. Approx. in the year 1605 Gonnosuke managed to defeat Musashi without causing him great harm. Gonnosuke became martial arts instructor to the Kuroda clan, located in northern Kyushu. Muso Gonnosuke, profoundly changed by his encounter with Musashi and by a divine vision atop Mount Homan, created a pre-eminent staff art, the Shinto (or Shindo) Muso-Ryu jo-jutsu. The Heavenly Way of Muso's staff. There were wooden staff arts before Gonnosuke's time. The Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-Ryu had bojutsu methods using the rokushaku Bo (six-foot staff). Jodo is a powerful art, in which a Jo is used against a swordsman. Saturdays 16:00-18:00
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