Yōseikan Budō

Mochizuki's Composite Budō

Yōseikan Budō is a composite Japanese martial art descended from the pre-war aikido of Mochizuki Minoru (1907–2003), who folded judo, jūjutsu, karate and classical weapon arts into a single teaching at his Yōseikan dōjō in Shizuoka. It was later developed by his son Mochizuki Hiroo and survives through the bodies his family and students founded.

A composite budō

Yōseikan Budō (養正館武道) is a composite Japanese martial art descended from the pre-war aikido of Mochizuki Minoru (望月稔, 1907–2003), into which he and his successors folded judo, jūjutsu, karate and classical weapon arts. Its name, taken from the hall he founded, is usually rendered "the place where what is right is taught".

Mochizuki's teachers

Mochizuki was a direct student of two founders: Kanō Jigorō of jūdō, who sent him to study the new aikido, and Ueshiba Morihei, under whom he trained in its earliest form. He also learned the classical Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū and Gyokushin-ryū jūjutsu, and it was this breadth that led him to teach a deliberately combined art rather than a single discipline. He opened his Yōseikan dōjō in Shizuoka in 1931.

To teach many arts as one way.

Into the present

The art was carried to France and elsewhere in Europe, where Mochizuki taught for many years, and it was developed by his son Mochizuki Hiroo into the modern form now taught as Yōseikan Budō. It survives today through the organisations his family and students founded, its history documented from Mochizuki Minoru's well-recorded life.