In 1996, leading master of Hontai Yoshin Ryu Jujutsu Yasumoto Akiyoshi left Hontai Yoshin Ryu and formed his own style, which on October 18, 1999, was named Moto -ha Yoshin Ryu Jujutsu or Yoshin Ryu Jujutsu Yasumoto Version, and also another meaning of Moto-ha being Original Style, and in context it refers to the original teachings of Minaki Soke and Kanazawa Sensei.

Branches of his school are located in Japan, Europe, Australia, the CIS, the USA, and Israel. The school's techniques are also studied in Mexico and Sri Lanka. The headquarters of Moto-ha Yoshin-ryu is located in Japan, in the city of Yonago in Tottori Prefecture.

At the “okuden” level, students learn internal techniques, including ‘ketsuin’ and “jumon.” - psychophysical training techniques, methods for developing “zanshin” spatial awareness, group combat techniques, as well as tactical and specialized recommendations, including night combat and indoor combat. Training methods also include several types of randori training fights.

Yasumoto Akiyoshi was born on December 13, 1933, in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, and later moved to Nishinomiya. His family, originally named Yasuda, was officially awarded the Yasumoto surname and family crest in the 17th century for their contributions to the development of the province, as evidenced by documents that have survived to this day. The meaning of Yasumoto is originally Yasuda.

Yasumoto Akiyoshi is a historian and underwater archaeologist who has written several serious scientific works on the province of Shimano-ken based on his underwater archaeological findings. He has also organized a number of archaeological exhibitions showcasing the historical treasures he has collected.

Yasumoto Sensei is an expert in Japanese art and the owner of a large collection of Japanese ukiyo-e prints, kyokujiku paintings, and sho calligraphy. His collection includes shō written by one of the most famous martial arts masters, Yamauchi Tesshu, and the outstanding calligrapher and renowned Zen monk Takuan Sōhō.

For a long time, Yasumoto worked in the civil service in Nishinomiya City Hall, while also teaching disarmament techniques to special units of the Hyogo Prefectural Police. He also periodically gave jujutsu classes at temple complexes at the invitation of jujutsu monks from his province.

In his youth, Yasumoto took boxing quite seriously for 7 or 8 years, successfully competing in regional tournaments. In parallel with boxing, he trained and competed in judo, studying under his uncle, an 8th dan master and president of the regional judo federation. After achieving 3rd dan in judo and becoming a multiple prize winner in boxing competitions, in the post-war period, Yasumoto was forced to repeatedly take part in street conflicts with representatives of the Japanese criminal world.

After sustaining several minor knife wounds, he gave up sports, as he considered judo and boxing to be insufficiently effective methods of hand-to-hand combat, focusing primarily on athleticism.

For some time, he trained on his own, practicing punches and kicks on a bag as he saw fit and searching for a teacher, until he met Minaki Saburo, who had moved from Tokyo and opened a jujutsu dojo in the Kansai region.

Yasumoto became a student of Soke Minaki and, later, a leading jujutsu master of this school. His influence on the school is obvious, as the form he created, “Yoshin no Kata,” is still practiced in many foreign Hontai Yoshin Ryu dojos even after he left the organization, and the endings he proposed for some of the classic kata techniques have become standard in the school and are even demonstrated by the current Soke.

During his training, both the Hontai Yoshin Ryu and Kukishin Ryu schools were taught simultaneously to all direct students.

Minaki Saburo passed on all the practices of his martial art to Yasumoto. He studied standing and kneeling fighting techniques, individual methods of ground fighting, principles of fighting against a group of opponents, chokeholds and methods of disarming knives, sticks, and swords, binding, short sword, stick, and pole fighting techniques, resuscitation, and actions at night and indoors. Yasumoto also studied the internal aspects of “ketsuin” and “jumon.”

After years of training, Yasumoto received the complete transmission of the practices of Hontai Takagi Yoshin Ryu and the highest title of “menkyo kaiden.”

After becoming friends with another student at the school, Kanazawa Akira, he began training in disarming techniques in the old Takagi ryu style under his father, Kanazawa Ichizu, one of Kakuno Happei's best students. He also became familiar with the classical forms of Takagi ryu and assisted the school's Soke, Master Tsutsui Yoshitaka, several times at annual demonstrations at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo and other venues.

All this influenced his understanding of the profound aspects of “Yoshin Ryu,” which he was able to study from different angles.

In parallel with his practice of jujutsu, Yasumoto Akiyoshi studied the sword techniques of the Mugai Ryu iaido school under the patriarch of this style, Soke Nakagawa Shintaro. He received a 6th dan, and then the title of “renshi” instructor and the transmission of all the practices of the “men no maki” school. At the same time, he also received a 6th dan from the Japanese Iaido Federation.

After the death of his teacher Soke Nakagawa, Yasumoto Sensei received an invitation from his colleague Soke Toyama Ryu Batto-jutsu master Yamaguchi to study his style of iaido, and after starting to practice, he soon received his 5th dan and the title of “shihan.”