 In addition to the very high ranks he held in these arts he was student of one of the oldest styles of traditional Japanese koryū budō, the Katori Shintō-ryō, and studied with various karate teachers including Gichin Funakoshi, the man who brought karate from the Okinawan islands to mainland Japan.The old Yoseikan style included mainly jujutsu, aikijujutsu, kobudo and a few karate techniques, such as