Shoji Nishio

Shoji Nishio in Århus, Denmark 1984

Shoji Nishio (西尾 昭二, Nishio Shōji^?, December 5, 1927 – March 15, 2005) was a Japanese aikido teacher holding the rank of 8th dan shihan from the Aikikai.

Life and career

Nishio was born in Aomori Prefecture of Japan in 1927. He joined Aikikai Hombu Dojo in 1951 and began to teach around 1955. Before aikido he studied judo (4th Dan Kodokan Judo), karate (4th Dan Shindō jinen-ryū), iaido (7th Dan Nihon Zendoku Iaido) and jōdō and also Shintō Musō-ryū jōjutsu and Hōzōin-ryū sōjutsu. Skills gained from them he managed to smoothly include into his own specific aikido style where all techniques can be performed with the wooden sword bokken in hand as well as without weapons, and his weapon systems has few similarities to the more common system that derives from Morihiro Saito. He held the title of an Aikikai shihan and created a new school of Iaido with forms from aikido, called Aiki Toho Iaido or Nishio-ryu Iai. In 2003 Nishio received the Budo Kyoryusho award from Japanese Budo Federation for his lifetime contribution to development and worldwide propagation of aikido. He died in March 2005 aged 77.

External links

• Yufukan Japan - Nishio Budo centre in Japan
• Yufukan Ukraine - Nishio Budo centre in Ukraine, Organization for Nishio Sensei's aikido in Ukraine
• Interview
• Pictures from European seminars
• Bohemia Aikikai - Nishio Ryu Dojo in Czech Republic
• Hokuo Aikikai, Organization for Nishio Sensei's aikido in Sweden
• Deutsche Aikido Renmei e.V., non-commercial Organization for Nishio Aikido in Germany
• Nishio Style related Aikido in Berlin Germany

• Nishio Aikido Deutschland e.V., German umbrella organization for Nishio style Aikido
• Danish Aikikai, Organization for Nishio Sensei's aikido in Denmark
• Shoji Nishio Sensei Aikido style in France and Dojo Associated

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Name	Nishio, Shoji
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Date of birth	1927
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Date of death	2005
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