I was told to go and take a look at Aikido, but I never went back to karate!” Aikido training at hombu (headquarters) was not conducted by O Sensei, but by Kisshomaru Ueshiba and Koichi Tohei. It was O-Sensei … Anyway, I went to see Aikido and immediately joined the dojo. In 1952, a senior instructor at Konishi’s dojo, Toyosaku Sodeyama, mentioned to Nishio, now just 25 years old, that he had seen a martial artist who was like a “phantom!” Nishio says, “I was amazed that there was someone that even Sodeyama Sensei couldn’t strike. Ueshiba’s reputation became known to Nishio a couple years after he began training with Konishi. Konishi said that Ueshiba was the best martial artist he had ever known. Ueshiba then remarked, “The demonstration you did just now was satisfactory to me and that is a kata worth mastering.” Konishi developed three kata, Tai Sabaki Shodan, Tai Sabaki Nidan and Tai Sabaki Sandan, all based on the same principles inspired by Ueshiba. Inspired by Uehiba’s frank comments, Konishi developed a kata he called Tai Sabaki (“body movement”). Konishi demonstrated Heian Nidan (a kata from Okinawan karate) for Ueshiba who commented to Konishi that he should stop wasting his time with ineffective techniques.
Konishi also studied Aikido under Morihei Ueshiba, a relationship that extended back to the 1930′s when Ueshiba was teaching at his Kobukan Dojo in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo. Konishi was the founder of Shindō jinen-ryū (神道自然流) karate. Yasuhiro Konishi was a leading force in the development and acceptance of karate in Japan. So he began training in karate under Yasuhiro Konishi (1893-1983), one of the first karate teachers in mainland Japan. Nishio liked the hard training, but by the age of 23 he was becoming dissatisfied with the practical limitations that competition placed on judo. Mifune was considered one of the greatest judo practitioners ever. Nishio trained under the famous Kyuzo Mifune (1883-1965) 10th dan judo, the fourth of only eighteen 10th dan’s ever awarded by the Kodokan. By the next year things at the Kodokan began picking up. Sometimes he would go to train and nobody would be there so he would just spend the time practicing ukemi and then go home. Nishio recalls with amusement that he was the first person to join the Kodokan after the war. There were no application forms so Nishio just wrote his name on a plain piece of paper and left it there.
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When he arrived the building was a mess, windows blown out from the bombings, and no one was there but an old caretaker. The war ended Augand on September 1st he went to join the Kodokan, the world headquarters of judo. At the same time he started practicing judo in a nearby dojo. In 1942, at the age of 15, amidst the chaos of WW II, he moved to Tokyo where he began working for the Ministry of Finance in the Japanese Mint. Shoji Nishio was born in 1927 in the Aomori Prefecture of northern Japan. He received the Budo Kyoryusho award from the Japanese Budo Federation for his lifetime contribution to the development and advancement of Aikido throughout the world. Shoji Nishio’s lifetime of accomplishments included numerous rankings and honors in Japanese martial arts including 8th dan in Aikido, 7th dan in Nihon Iaido Zendoku, 4th dan in Kodokan Judo, 4th dan in Shindo Shizen Ryu Karate as well as training in Shindo Muso Ryu Jodo (staff) and Hozoin Ryu Yari (spear).
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