1 - Koppo Jutsu


It translated literally as approach of the bones, Koppo is the peculiar form studied in the arts that aim at the attack to the articulations.



It studied in the Medium Age by the most traditional schools, the Koppojutsu, or simply Koppo, can be translated in a version of adaptation for the West as attack to the bones.

Characteristic of the Aikijujutsu and Jujutsu, the Koppo is, doubtless, one of the matters of bigger efficiency studied inside the curricular grille of the Bujutsu.

Inside the present time, we find Sussumo Motoshima as big expert of the traditional forms guarded in sequences of forms named like Kata.

Motoshima Sussumo is a son of Chieko Motoshima, daughter of Noriyuki Mizumatsu, big holder of the technical one of the Koppojutsu.

Mizumatsu was famous in its province by organize the forms and determine-them in a nomenclature that did not exist.

Second Motoshima Sensei, healthy to the all ten kata that constitute of ten each sequences, that correspond to the most frequent attacks of the epoch.




Illustrations: Secrets of the Samurai, Oscar Ratti / Adele Westbrook, Tuttle, 2001