Jujutsu was first introduced to Europe in 1898 by
Edward William Barton-Wright, who had studied
Tenjin Shinyō-ryū and
Shinden Fudo Ryu in
Yokohama and
Kobe, respectively. He had also trained briefly at the
Kodokan in
Tokyo. Upon returning to
England he folded the basics of all of these styles, as well as
boxing,
savate and French
stick fighting, into an eclectic self-defence system called
Bartitsu[9].
