Le budô en héritage. Budô as a legacy

Hiroo Mochizuki est le premier Japonais à enseigner le karaté en France. Venu à la demande de Henry Plée, il s'installa à Paris, se maria à une Française et finalement épousa la France, sans pour autant rompre avec sa culture.

Cet ouvrage est une biographie non exhaustive, une sorte de livre de souvenirs illustré de photos, d'archives personnelles et de documents d'époque. Il est émaillé d'anecdotes autour de certains des personnages, parents, relations, qui ont joué à un moment ou à un autre, de près ou de loin, un rôle sur son parcours personnel et celui de sa famille.

Écrites à la demande de nombreux proches, enseignants, élèves, ces chroniques intéresseront le lecteur pratiquant d'arts martiaux mais aussi ceux s'intéressant au Japon.

Hiroo Mochizuki was the first Japanese to teach Karate in France. He came to France at Henry Plee's request, and settled in Paris. He got married to a French lady, and eventually wed France too, without breaking with his own culture however.

This work is a non-exhaustive biography, a book which collects memories, and is accompanied by photos, personal archives and contemporary documents. It is dotted with anecdotes that are centered around some people, relatives, acquaintances... who, at some time or another, from near or from far, have played a role on his personal path or on his family's.

They were written at the request of numerous relatives, teachers, students. Those chronicles will be interesting to martial arts students, but also to those who are interested in Japan.