Master Maui Saito is one of the very few great masters of martial arts left in the world today who was taught the art in it's full and complete form in direct line of decent, with all the knowledge that was originally contained in the art still intact from before the peaceful Edo era and restrictive Meiji era when Japan was rife with war.

The lack of masters able to teach actual battle tested martial arts is due directly to the effect of a period of time in Japanese history when the Japanese government placed severe restrictions on the practicing and teaching of martial arts in all their most dangerous and deadly forms.

“The Meiji government (1868-1912) sought to re-establish imperial power and discredited many of the things associated with the samurai. Jujutsu (Jujitsu) was suppressed, and an imperial edict by Emperor Meiji declared it a criminal offense to practice the old-style combative martial arts. Some jujutsu masters practiced surreptitiously or traveled abroad to teach, but most schools were completely lost or subsumed into more “modern” martial arts like judo. In the war era, the government lifted the ban to promote jujutsu (sport version) for nationalistic aims (Levinson, Christensen, pg. 212).”

After the Meiji Restoration and edict, those families that taught their art did so in secrecy. Today there are probably only a few martial art masters left in the world who received the full training that their ancestors had honed to a science through for literally 2 Millennia of Japanese warring history. Master Maui Saito is one of the lucky ones in the world to have had this privilege.