Yoshida Kōtarō
Yoshida Kōtarō ( Japanese 吉田 幸 太郎 ; * 1883 in Miyama , Fukuoka Prefecture , Japan ; † 1966 in Hitachi , Ibaraki Prefecture ) was a Japanese martial arts master of Daitō-ryū .
In 1906 he was a graduate of Tōhoku Gakuin University (Japan) and worked as a journalist and writer. Among other things, he also studied at Waseda University in Japan. In 1915 he became a student of Takeda Sōkaku and later received the Kyōju Dairi (teaching license as the highest honor). In 1937 he met Richard Kim whose greatest teacher he was. It was Yoshida Kōtarō who introduced Ueshiba Morihei , the founder of Aikidō , to his teacher Takeda Sōkaku in Engaru on the island of Hokkaidō (Japan).
In the early 1960s he moved from San Francisco, USA to Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture (Japan), where he died at the age of 83.
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- Richard Kim, Don Warener: 20th Century Samurai . 2006, ISBN 978-0-920129-26-5
- Aikido Journal ( Memento from February 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yoshida, Kōtarō |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 吉田 幸 太郎 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese Daitō-ryū martial artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miyama , Fukuoka Prefecture , Japan |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1966 |
| Place of death | Hitachi , Ibaraki Prefecture , Japan |