Okinawa Kobudo

Sensei Shinpo Matayoshi (1923-1997). 

He began his training in martial arts at an early age under his famous father, Shinko Matayoshi. Sensei Shinpo also traveled extensively to teach his family's style of Kobudo. 

In 1970 he founded the Ryukyu Kobudo Renmei, which was renamed to the Zen Okinawa Kobudo Renmei in 1972, and became its president. 

The Matayoshi family dojo is called Kodokan (Way of Enlightenment) in honor of his father, whose first name Shinko means "True Light".