Mutsuro Nakazono

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Mutsuro Nakazono (b. Dec 20, 1918, died 1994) (first name also spelled "Mitsuro" or "Masahiro" or Masahilo") is a Japanese acupuncturist, an Oriental medicine practitioner and an aikido teacher with a strong judo background.

Born in the Kagoshima prefecture, he relocated to France in 1961 where he remained until the early 1970s before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S. where he spent several years. He operated a natural healing center in California: The Nakazono Clinic, San Diego, CA, USA.^[1]

Nakazono was an authority on kotodama and wrote privately published books on the subject.^[1] His study of kotodama was a result of his studies with Morihei Ueshiba, founder of the martial art of Aikido. Ueshiba is believed to have mastered kotodama to a certain degree, yet few of his disciples have been interested in learning this aspect of aikido from him with the exception of Nakazono.

Nakazono was also deeply involved in the spiritual aspect of healing such as Inochi. Coming from a long family tradion of healers he passed on both his Aikido and his spritual approach to healing to his son Jiro Nakazono (now known as Jei Atacama) who practices spirtual healing in New York City.

In 2007 there were a series of memoral events in Rosfall Switzerland and Neath UK sponsored by his students in memory of their teacher.