Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu
At a young age, Yoshida apprenticed himself to Takeda Sōkaku, head of the Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu school, which would soon become popular throughout Japan as part of the public revitalization of the martial arts. Yoshida would become one of Sōkaku's top students, and he is in fact credited with introducing Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, to Sōkaku.