Tsutsumi Ryu Jujitsu taught by Soke Jan de Jong, is a cotemporary yet traditional combat oriented system of self-defence. It is a system that maintains its efficiency at any range, be it punching, kicking or grappling. Included in its weapons syllabus is the jo, tanbo and katana (Ken-jutsu and Iai-jutsu).
Tsutsumi Hozan Ryu was founded in 1658 by Tsutsumi Yam Shiron Qrakami Hozan, a master of Takeuchi Ryu, at Niigata on Honshu Island. Believing that kata training would not develop the ability to respond rapidly to attack he tried to introduce a method of training the reflexes.
Meeting with resistance within the Takeuchi Ryu, Tsutsumi left in order to further develop the art and incorporate reflex training. To date students of Tsutsumi Ryu are still promoted according to their performance on reflex gradings.

Left: Saito S & Saito K Sensei (Brothers)

Tsutsumi Masao, the last Tsutsumi Grandmaster, died in 1898. Among his students were Higashi. K, Saito. K (7th Dan), and Saito. S (8th Dan). Tsutsumi and Higashi were involved in the development of Kano Jujitsu, the precursor to Judo. Professor Kano’s original intention being to bring together into one system the best of the Jujitsu schools, Tsutsumi contributed greatly to the expansion of the Kano Jujitsu system. Higashi co-authored a book with Irving Hancock entitled “The Complete Kano Jujitsu”.
The same Saito brothers were the late Shihan Jan de Jongs’s teachers.


Left: Shihan Jan de Jong



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