How to Pronounce Minoru Mochizuki
#50
Most Popular
Boost
Apr 11, 1907 Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan Died on 30 May 2003 (aged 96)
Japanese aikidoka
AriesMinoru Mochizuki - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
Minoru Mochizuki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Family, Facts, Age, Net Worth, Biography and More in FamedBorn.com
About Minoru Mochizuki
- Minoru Mochizuki (?? ?, Mochizuki Minoru, April 7, 1907 – May 30, 2003) was a Japanese martial artist who founded the dojo Yoseikan.
- He was a 10th dan in Aikido, 9th dan in jujutsu, 8th dan in iaido, 8th dan in judo, 8th dan in kobudo, 5th dan in kendo, 5th dan in karate, and a 5th dan in jojutsu.Mochizuki was one of the direct students of judo founder Jigoro Kano, aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba and Gichin Funakoshi, founder of Shotokan Karate.Believing that the martial arts had become distorted by specialization into separate disciplines or transformed into sports, Mochizuki achievement was to assemble back the major techniques of the Japanese martial tradition into a single structure, as it was once practised.
- He oversaw the development of the system from his home in Shizuoka, Japan, where his dojo, the Yoseikan, was often visited by martial arts practitioners from all over the world.
