Profile
Masaki Wakabayashi
Masaki Wakabayashi is a creator who explores “creation arising from Wuji — the source before all forms” through Taijiquan, Taoist philosophy, art, and music.
As the Founder and Master of Wang Style Yang Taijiquan, he preserves and transmits Taiji principles based on the Wudang Thirteen Powers tradition.
His creative activities extend across multiple fields including Xieyi art, music creation, writing, and philosophical research.
Mugoku Creation Project
1. Wang Style Yang Taijiquan
Keyword: Taiji · Body
Taijiquan is a cultivation practice that leads from Wuji to Taiji.
From stillness movement arises.
Yin and Yang transform continuously.
Mind, Qi, and body become one.
Based on the Wudang Thirteen Powers tradition, this project preserves and transmits the original principles of Yang Style Taijiquan.（This Site)
2. Mukyokukan — Xieyi Art
Keyword: Taiji · Form
Xieyi means expressing the spirit beyond external form.
It is a creative activity that expresses the Qi of nature, Yin-Yang, the Five Elements, and Taoist philosophy through art.
Link:Official Mugoku Creation Website
3. Kawachian — Music Creation
Keyword: Taiji · Sound
Sound is also a vibration born from emptiness.
From silence comes resonance.
Resonance becomes emotion.
Emotion reaches the human heart.
Link:
Official KAWACHIAN Website
4. Books & Philosophical Research
Keyword: Taiji · Principle
Books:
・Training the Simplified 24-Form Taijiquan to the Marrow
・The Most Beautiful Simplified 24-Form Taijiquan
・The True History of Taijiquan (Vol.1–3)
・COVID-19 vs Taijiquan
・A Conversation Between Laozi and a Housewife (Tao / Te)
・Yang Style 85-Form Taijiquan
・The Rootless Tree — 24 Chapters & 100 Verses
Link:
View all books on Amazon
Concept
Wuji is the state that contains everything, yet exists before all things.
From Wuji arises Yin and Yang, becoming Taiji.
From Taiji emerge the Four Symbols and Eight Trigrams, giving birth to all phenomena.
Mugoku Creation is an activity based on this universal principle of creation.
It becomes symbols and signs.
In space, it becomes Feng Shui.
In art, movement, sound, and life, it becomes a way of harmonizing with nature.
Biography
Osaka Shin Kabukiza Theater in 1959.
Masaki Wakabayashi was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1957.
His maternal grandfather was an influential figure involved in organizing major entertainment and sporting events, including Osaka Kabukiza performances and professional wrestling promotions.
His grandfather’s later-life partner was the female rokyoku performer Yukie Tsukasa, allowing Wakabayashi to grow up surrounded by traditional Japanese performing arts and music.
He also learned the foundations of visual art from professional sign painters, and later studied Xieyi painting under his Taijiquan master.
During childhood, he frequently visited professional wrestling training facilities connected to his grandfather.
In high school, he received private instruction in Yagyu Shinkage-ryu swordsmanship from an acquaintance of his grandfather.
As a young adult, Wakabayashi studied directly under a Wudang Taijiquan master who had served as his grandfather’s personal protector.
Through one-on-one training, he studied Taijiquan, Taiji Gong, Laozi philosophy, the Rootless Tree (Wugenshu), Xieyi painting techniques, and historical research methods.
Around the age of thirty, he received formal recognition of transmission from his master.
In his twenties, he became president of an advertising planning company.
In 1988, he introduced the “Panda Goldfish” from Hong Kong to Japan, attracting attention from television, newspapers, and magazines.
After moving to Tokyo, he worked on various business planning projects, including projects for major companies.
Later, after relocating to Yokohama, he founded and managed a nationwide consumer organization.
Since his thirties, he has continued researching and transmitting Taiji theory, Taijiquan health cultivation, and traditional martial arts.
He has taught Taijiquan and Qigong while continuing creative activities through Mugoku Creation.
Today his work includes publishing books on Eastern philosophy, Oriental medicine, Taiji Gong, and Qigong; creating Xieyi paintings based on philosophical poetry; and producing music inspired by the principles of Wuji and Taiji.
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