Yoseikan Budo Origins

Yoseikan Budo Origins

The Mochizuki Family

The Mochizuki Family

From left to right: Mitchi Mochizuki, Minoru Mochizuki (front) Hiroo Mochizuki (back) and Kyoshi Mochizuki.

Samurai Lineage

The Mochizuki family comes from a samurai heritage that can be traced back directly.

This is one of the reasons why Yoseikan Budo uses 3 different sized foam weapons for sparring:

  1. Small size: tanto
  2. Medium size: wakizashi
  3. Big size: katana
Swords

Samurai warriors were well versed in many forms of battlefield combat such as Ken-Jutsu, Iaido and Kobudo for weapon fighting.

They would also have to know unarmed combat (Jujitsu, throws, locks and striking) should they ever be disarmed or without a weapon. These techniques would later become known as styles such as Karate, Judo, Aikido etc.