Kōtarō Yoshida

Kōtarō Yoshida

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name = Kōtarō Yoshida
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birth_date = October, 1883
birth_place = Miyama-mura, Tamura-gun, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
death_date = 1966
death_place = Hitachi, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan [ [http://www.aikidojournal.com/encyclopedia?entryID=783 Yoshida, Kotaro] ]
martial_art = Daitō-ryū aiki-jūjutsu
teacher = Takeda Sokaku
rank = Kyoju Dairi, Daitō-ryū aiki-jūjutsu
students = Richard Kim, Masutatsu Oyama, Katsuyuki Kondo
nihongo|Kōtarō Yoshida|吉田 幸太郎|Yoshida Kōtarō|Oct. 1883–1966 [cite encyclopedia
last = Pranin
first = Stanley
title = Yoshida, Kotaro
encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of Aikido
date = 2007
url = http://www.aikidojournal.com/encyclopedia?entryID=783
accessdate = 2007-07-29
] was an 19th to 20th Century Japanese martial artist and member of the Amur River Society (also known as the Black Dragon Society), an ultra-nationalist organization of disenfranchised ex-samurai who promulgated "pan-Asiatic ascendancy" in line with the rise of Japanese imperialism. While by all accounts a prolific martial artist and teacher, there is little surviving documentation of Yoshida's life that has been translated into English. Because he was known to have lived an extremely ascetic lifestyle, and possibly as a result of his political activities and connections, most information on Yoshida today has been passed down through oral transmission by primary sources.

In relating a speech given by one of Yoshida's top students, Richard Kim, Don Warrener (himself a student of Kim) notes that Yoshida came from a family that had held samurai rank during the pre-restoration period of feudal Japan. At a young age Yoshida apprenticed himself to Takeda Sokaku, head of the Daitō-ryū aiki-jūjutsu school, which would soon become popular throughout Japan as part of the public revitalization of the martial arts. Yoshida would become Sokaku's top student, and there is some disagreement as to whether mastery of the art was passed down to Yoshida himself or another Sokaku pupil. What is known is Yoshida's status as a top student of Sokaku's is undisputed, and he is in fact credited with introducing Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, to Sokaku.

Settling down after World War II, Yoshida lived with and instructed his student Richard Kim, a member of the Kempei-te and founder of the Shorinji-Ryu school of Karate-do. Yoshida taught Kim Daito-Ryu, eventually certifying him as the designated heir to the style (this does not mean Kim was designated heir to the entire Daito Ryu, only to Yoshida's version of it). It is also claimed Yoshida had an estranged son who emigrated to the United States and eventually passed on a form of Aikijujitsu to a US military serviceman named Don Angier, who currently teaches in California.

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