Background
Nishio was born in Aomori Prefecture of Japan in 1927.
西尾 昭二
Nishio was born in Aomori Prefecture of Japan in 1927.
Before aikido he studied judo (6th Dan Kodokan Judo), karate (5th Dan Shindō jinen-ryū), iaido (7th Dan Nihon Zendoku Iaido) and jōdō and also Shintō Musō-ryū jōjutsu and Hōzōin-ryū sōjutsu.
He joined Aikikai Hombu Dojo in 1951 and began to teach around 1955. Skills gained from them he managed to smoothly merge 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 also created a new school of Iaido with forms from aikido, called Aiki Toho Iaido or Nishio-ryu Iai.
He died in March 2005 aged 77.