THE LEGEND OF THE WILLOW
There was, once upon a time, many centuries ago, a doctor named Shirobei Akiyama. He had studied the techniques of combat of his time, including other techniques that he learned during his journeys to China to study traditional medicine and methods of reanimation without, however, obtaining the desired results. Irritated by his lack of success, he retreated for 100 days in meditation in the temple of Daifazu to pray to the god Tayunin so that he might do better. It happen that, one day, during a heavy snowfall, he observed that the weight of the snow had broken the branches of the most robust trees and that they had been left bare. His eyes then fell on a tree that had remained intact. It was a willow tree with flexible branches.

Every time the snow threatened to break them, these branches flexed, letting the snow fall and returning to their original position. This greatly impressed the good doctor who, sensing the importance of the principle of non-resistance, applied this principle to the techniques that he was studying, thus giving birth to one of the most ancient styles of JuJutsu: the Yoshin Ryu (school of the spirit of the willow) that still exists today and that has, for 400 years, passed down hand-to-hand and armed combat techniques almost completely unchanged