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Masatomi Ikeda (born 1940 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese aikido teacher who holds the rank of 7th dan in the Aikikai and was the representative for the organisation in Switzerland.
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Yasuhisa Shioda
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(b. 15 November 1952). B. Tokyo. Yoshinkan Aikido Shihan. Graduate in Economics of Chuo University. Began training in 1970 at the Aikido Yoshinkan Yoyogi Dojo. Spent three years in the U. K. from 1981-1984 where he taught YOSHINKAN AIKIDO.
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Kenji Shimizu
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Kenji Shimizu (清水 健二 Shimizu Kenji b. 1940) is an aikido teacher and founder of the aikido style Tendoryu.
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Shimizu was born in 1940 in Fukuoka, Japan.
Shimizu had been training judo since childhood and held a 4th dan in this art when he changed to aikido in 1963. He then became one of the last personal students of the founder of aikido Morihei Ueshiba. After Ueshiba died in 1969, Shimizu, then with a 7th dan in aikido, founded his own school in Tokyo named Tendoryu (ten: heaven, dō: way, ryū: school).
Tendoryu Aikido is characterized by its large and clear movements and convinces spectators and students by its naturalness and harmonic flow of motion.
Since 1978, Shimizu sensei has regularly held seminars in Germany and other European countries with the formation of the German Tendoryu Society was founded in 1993.
He received the 8th dan aikido from the Japanese Budo Federation in 1998.
Shimizu sensei co-authored a book titled Zen and Aikido (ISBN 4-900586-13-7) with Shigeo Kamata.
Shimizu received the award of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the year Heisei 14 (2002) for his work spreading aikido abroad for many years. In the same year he was invited to the autumn garden party at the imperial palace in Akasaka, Tōkyō.
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Rinjiro Shirata
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(29 March 1912-29 May 1993). 9th dan Aikikai (1972). Awarded 10th dan posthumously. Aikikai Shihan. B. Oyamura, Yamagata Prefecture. From a family of OMOTO believers whose mother practiced AIKI BUDO at a dojo of the BUDO SENYOKAI in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Entered the KOBUKAN DOJO in 1933 and was known for his exceptional physical strength. Shirata was later dispatched to Osaka where he taught until his induction into the Japan Imperial Army. Shirata he resumed teaching c. 1960 continuing until shortly before his death. He supervised publication of the 1984 book in English, Aikido: The Way of Harmony by John STEVENS (see bibl. ). Interviewed AN#62-63.
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Aikido Rinjiro Shirata Sensei
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Minoru Mochizuki
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Minoru Mochizuki (1907-04-07 in Shizuoka, Japan - 2003-05-30 in Aix-en-Provence, France) founded Yoseikan Budo. 10th dan, aikido, International Martial Arts Federation (IMAF); 9th dan, jujutsu; 8th dan, iaido; 8th dan, judo; 8th dan, kobudo; 5th dan, kendo; 5th dan, karate; 5th dan, jojutsu.
Mochizuki was one of the direct students of judo founder Jigoro Kano, aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba and Gichin Funakoshi, founder of Shotokan Karate. Believing that the martial arts have become distorted by specialization into separate disciplines and transformation into sports, Mochizuki assembled the major techniques of the Japanese martial tradition into a single coherent structure. He oversaw the development of his system from his home in Shizuoka, Japan, where his dojo, the Yoseikan, was often visited by martial arts practitioners from all over the world. Mochizuki formally passed the leadership of his Yoseikan Budo system to his son, Hiroo Mochizuki, in 2000. Yoseikan Budo is currently practiced in 29 countries around the world, and in such diverse places as Australia and Algeria, where a recent clinic had 240 people in attendance. The organization continues to grow and expand to more countries each year.
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Mochizuki Sensei Yoseikan Aikido
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Steven Seagal
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Steven Seagal (born April 10, 1951) is an American action movie actor, producer, writer, director and a singer. A 7th-dan black belt in aikido, Seagal began his adult life as an aikido instructor in Japan, before moving to the Los Angeles, California area where, after being noticed by entertainment executives, he made his film debut in 1988.
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Kenji Tomiki
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Kenji Tomiki (1900–1979) is a Japanese aikido teacher and the founder of aikido style Shodokan, often referred to as Tomiki Aikido.
Tomiki was one of the early students of the founder of aikido Morihei Ueshiba, and also of Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo. In 1925, the year he joined Morihei Ueshiba, he obtained 5th dan in judo. In 1929 he represented Miyagi Prefecture in the first judo tournament held in front of the Emperor - this tournament became the All Japan Tournament the following year. From 1936 till the end of the second world war he lived in Manchukuo (Manchuria) where he taught aikibudo (an early name for aikido) to the Kanton army and the Imperial Household Agency. In 1938 he became an assistant professor at Kenkoku University in Manchukuo. He went on to be awarded the first 8th dan in aikido (1942) and an 8th dan in judo. After returning from a three year internment by the Soviet Union, he taught both judo and aikido for many years at Waseda University. It was there that he formulated and expanded his theories concerning both kata based training methods and a particular form of free-style fighting which would put him at odds with much, but not all, of the aikido world.
In 1974 he founded the Japan Aikido Association (JAA) from an earlier organization of the same name to promote his theories. He called his style Shodokan Aikido and a honbu dojo, dedicated solely for the study of aikido, had been built in 1967 in Osaka. The current head of the dojo and chief instructor of the JAA is Tetsuro Nariyama.
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Koichi Tohei
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Koichi Tohei (藤平光一) (born January 1920) is a 10th Dan aikidoka and founder of the Ki Society and its style of aikido, officially known as Shin-Shin Toitsu Aikido - "aikido with mind and body unified", but commonly known as Ki-Aikido. The Ki Society is also known as Ki no Kenkyukai (気の研究会; Japanese for "Ki Research Society").
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Kazuo Chiba
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Kazuo Chiba (born Feb 5,1940,Tokyo) is an aikido teacher from Japan who has spent a considerable part of his teaching career in the United States. He is an 8th dan from the aikido organisation Aikikai, and the founder of the dojo (aikido club) San Diego Aikikai in San Diego where he relocated to in 1981. He is also the founder of an international aikido federation known as Birankai. In the aikido world, Chiba is sometimes known as a representative of the "hard" or "tough" side of aikido, with a strong emphasis on weapons training. As of May 2006, Chiba sensei has announced his gradual retirement from seminar-style training, which often imposes a heavy travel schedule. He has cited a desire to spend his remaining years closer to his family.
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Nobuyoshi Tamura
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Nobuyoshi Tamura was born on 1933-03-02 in Osaka, Japan. His father was a kendo teacher. Tamura entered the Aikikai Hombu Dojo around 1953 as an uchi-deshi (live-in student) of aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba. He was one of Ueshiba's favorite pupils and since 1964 has greatly contributed to the development of aikido in Europe and France in particular. He is the National Technical Director (DTN) of the FFAB (French Federation of Aikido and Budo). He currently holds the rank of 8th dan, and the title of Shihan. He has trained many others instructors throughout various countries mainly in Western Europe but also in different countries around the world. In 1999, he received the medal of "Chevalier de l'ordre National du Mérite" from the French government. Tamura has published several books on aikido (in French). His dojo (Shumeikan Dojo) is located in the village of Bras (Var, France).
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Hiroshi Tada
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Hiroshi Tada (born in December 13, 1929, Tokyo, Japan) is a 9th dan Aikikai Japanese aikido master who has taught at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo for many years. He was a member of the Waseda University karate club before starting training in aikido at the Hombu Dojo under aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba. He was dispatched to Rome, Italy in 1964 where he established the Italian "central dojo" around 1966. He returned to Japan in 1973 to resume teaching at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo. Masatomi Ikeda, the Aikikai representative in Switzerland is one of his students.
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Kisaburo Osawa
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Kisaburo Osawa (b. 1908, Kumagaya, Saitama prefecture, Japan - d. 1991-05-26) was an influential aikido master who taught for many years at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo and was a close advisor to Kisshomaru Ueshiba.
He started practicing judo at the age of 17 in order to fortify his body. In 1939 he was introduced to Morihei Ueshiba and entered the Kobukan dojo.
He became one of the most important and influential aikido teachers during the 1950s to 1970s, being the director of the Aikikai Hombu Dojo for many years until 1986 when he was replaced by Morihei's grandson and present Doshu, Moriteru Ueshiba. He held the rank of 9th dan Aikikai.
His son, Hayato Osawa (b. 1951) also became a prominent aikido shihan holding the rank of 7th dan.
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Gaku Homma
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Gaku Homma (b 1950) is a Japanese aikido teacher who has spent most of his teaching career in the United States. He was born in Akita Prefecture and trained as an uchideshi in Iwama and the Aikikai Hombu Dojo in Tokyo, under the founder of aikido Morihei Ueshiba and Morihiro Saito in the late 1960s. He moved to Denver, Colorado in 1976 and founded the Nippon Kan as an independent dojo in 1978. This dojo has grown into the largest aikido dojo in the Rocky Mountain region. He has organized several large aikido seminars in Denver, many of them taught by Morihiro Saito.
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- Nippon Kan Aikido Dojo-Denver, Colorado: Aikido Humanitarian Active Network (AHAN) Headquartershttp://www.nippon-kan.org/index2.html
Michio Hikitsuchi
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Michio Hikitsuchi (1923 - 2004-02-02), 10th dan in aikido, was the founder of the Kumano Juku Dojo, in Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. He met Morihei Ueshiba as a child and studied various martial arts during his entire life.
Michio Hikitsuchi (1923 - 2004-02-02), 10th dan in aikido, was the founder of the Kumano Juku Dojo, in Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. He met Morihei Ueshiba as a child and studied various martial arts during his entire life.
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Masamichi Noro
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Masamichi Noro (born in 1935 is a Japanese aikido master established in France. He entered the Aikikai Hombu Dojo in 1955 as an uchi-deshi and studied with the founder Morihei Ueshiba. He was then sent to France in 1961 to represent and develop aikido in that country and established his dojo in Paris. In 1979, he left the Aikikai to create the Ki no Michi ("the way of Ki"), which consists of practicing Aikido movements in slow motion.
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Shoji Nishio
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Shoji Nishio (December 5, 1927 - March 15, 2005), a noted aikidoka, was born in Aomori Prefecture of Japan in 1927. He joined Aikikai Hombu Dojo in 1951 and began to teach around 1955. Before aikido he studied judo (4th Dan Kodokan Judo), karate (4th Dan), iaido (7th Dan Nihon Zendoku Iaido) and jodo and also Shintō Musō-ryū jōjutsu and Hozoin-ryū sōjutsu. Skills gained from them he managed to smoothly include into his own specific aikido style where all techniques can be performed with the wooden sword bokken in hand as well as without weapons, and his weapon systems has few similarities to the more common system that derives from Morihiro Saito. He held the title of an Aikikai shihan and created a new school of Iaido with forms from aikido, called Aiki Toho Iaido. In 2003 Nishio Sensei received Budo Kyoryusho award from Japanese Budo Federation for his lifetime contribution to development and worldwide propagation of Aikido. He died in March 2005 aged 77.
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- http://www.nishiosensei.com/
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Mutsuro Nakazono
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(born in 1918 in the Kagoshima prefecture) is an Acupuncturist, an Oriental medicine practitioner and an aikido teacher with a strong judo background.
Relocated to France in 1960 where he remained until the early 1970s before moving to the USA
Nakazono is an authority on Kotodama and has written privately published books on the subject.
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Kanshu Sunadomari
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Kanshū Sunadomari (砂泊カン秀) was born in 1923 in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. In his teens, he became an uchideshi of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido. His live-in apprenticeship under the founder took place during World War II, and he also spent a brief period at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo after the war. In 1961, at the age of 38, Sunadomari received the rank of 9th [dan]. Sunadomari dedicated himself to the teaching of aikido in his native Kyūshū and opened up the Manseikan dojo (万生館) on the premises of the Tetori Shrine (手取神社）in the heart of Kumamoto City.
Sunadomari comes from a family of devout believers in Omoto, the religion on which Ueshiba based the spiritual underpinnings of aikido, and the Sunadomari family maintained a close relationship with the founder until his death. Kanemoto Sunadomari (elder brother of Kanshu) studied under the founder in the early 1930's and published the first biography of the Founder in 1969 entitled Aikido Kaiso Morihei Ueshiba. A newer version of this book was later published under the title Bu no Shinjin. Fukiko (Mitsue) Sunadomari (elder sister of Kanshu) was a close personal confidante of the founder until his death and was also a high ranking practioner of aikido.
After Ueshiba's death in 1969, Sunadomari founded his own independant style in Kumamoto City and began his further study of the spirit of aikido. In 1999, he renamed his style Aiki Manseidō (合氣万生道) symbolizing his conviction to help spread world peace by transmitting the spirit of the the founder across the world through physical technique. Practitioners of his style recite the Spirit of Aikido (合気道の精神) before begining each practice. Sunadomari is known for his emphasis on kokyu ryoku (breath power; 呼吸力) and his extremely soft and powerful technique. He has written several books, most of which have never been translated from their original Japanese. In 2004, his book Enlightenment through Aikido (Aikido de satoru, 合気道で悟る) became the first to be released in English translation.
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Gozo Shioda
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Gozo Shioda (塩田剛三) (September 9, 1915 - July 17, 1994), is a Japanese aikido teacher and the founder of Yoshinkan style of aikido.
Shioda was a student of judo while young, and after being easily thrown by Morihei Ueshiba after a demonstration, became his student in 1932. He also studied aikijujutsu. He has become known as one of the more "fiery" or "vigorous" people of aikido history. In 1961 he was awarded a 9th dan rank by Ueshiba.
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Budo : Aikido Shioda
"Tha man who was called as god of martial arts" Japanese TV program
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Shioda Gozo no kamiwaza
Movie "Kamiwaza Aikido"
Moriteru Ueshiba
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Moriteru Ueshiba (植芝守央 Ueshiba Moriteru) (born April 2, 1951) is the third and current Aikido Doshu. He was born in 1951 in Tokyo and assumed the title of doshu on January 4, 1999 following the death of his father, Kisshomaru Ueshiba. He is a grandson of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido. He graduated from Meiji Gakuin University with a degree in economics. He assumed the position of dojocho (道場長) or director of Aikikai Hombu Dojo in 1986 and in 1996 became chairman of the Aikikai Foundation.
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"The Empty Mind" DVD
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Kisshomaru Ueshiba
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Kisshomaru Ueshiba (植芝 吉祥丸 Ueshiba Kisshōmaru; June 27, 1921-January 4, 1999) was the third son of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido. He was born in Ayabe, in the prefecture of Kyoto, Japan. Kisshomaru was Doshu (roughly translated as "keeper" or "guardian of the Way") of aikido from his father's death in 1969 until his own death in 1999. Since being succeeded by his son, Moriteru Ueshiba, he is often referred to as second doshu.
Kisshomaru graduated from Waseda University with a degree in economics. He is often given credit for being the primary force behind the spread and popularization of aikido throughout the world.
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Aikido Exhibition de Sensei
Enbu; Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Kisaburo Osawa, Kunio Iimura and Seigo Yamaguchi
Aikido-Kisshomaru Ueshiba and Seigo Yamaguchi
Kisshomaru Ueshiba and Seigo Yamaguchi
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2nd Doshu Kisshomaru in Action
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Mitsugi Saotome
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Mitsugi Saotome Shihan (born c. 1937, Japan) is an Aikido teacher currently living in the United States. He is a master in the martial art of Aikido. Saotome Shihan is a direct disciple (jikideshi - 直弟子) of the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba (O Sensei).
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Morihiro Saito
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Morihiro Saito (斎藤守弘) (March 31, 1928 - May 13, 2002) was an aikido teacher with many students around the world. He began his aikido training under the founder of aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, in Iwama in 1946 after having practiced some kendo, judo and karate. Although other students such as Koichi Tohei trained with Ueshiba for more years than Saito did, Saito's work allowed him to train almost as an uchideshi, for long periods as the only student. From 1946 until Ueshiba’s passing in 1969, Saito Sensei served as Ueshiba's assistant in a variety of ways at Iwama while his wife served Mrs. Ueshiba. During Saito sensei’s period as a deshi he taught classes in the Iwama dojo. Before his death Ueshiba gave Morihiro Saito the responsibility of carrying on the teaching at the Iwama dojo and also the position of caretaker of the Aiki Jinja located in Iwama. Morihiro Saito died on 2002-05-13 of cancer.
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Iwama Ryu Aikido - Saito Sensei / Daniel Toutain - Komijo 1-6
Hitohiro Saito
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Aikido master Hitohiro Saito (斎藤 仁弘; Saitō Hitohiro) is the son and successor of Morihiro Saito. Hitohiro was born at 12 February 1957 and raised in the dojo of Morihei Ueshiba the founder of Aikido. At age of seven, he started to learn Aikido from Ueshiba who cared for him as a grandson. After Ueshiba died in 1969, he continued his practice with his father. Saito became official instructor of the Iwama dojo in 1986 and remained so until 2004 the year he separated from the Aikikai organization, and formed his own group called Iwama Shin Shin Aikishuren Kai. Years before his father's death, Hitohiro took over the main work at the founders' dojo and Shrine of Aiki "Aiki Jinja", thus relieving his aging father of the great amount of work required in running the dojo. His father spent his last years taking care of the vegetable gardens and travelling abroad for seminars. The main teaching of the dojo was passed to master Hitohiro's hands and remained so until 2004.
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Hitohiro Saito
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Katsuaki Asai
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Katsuaki Asai (b. 1942-02-18, Tokyo) is a Japanese aikido master. A former student of aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba he currently represents the Aikikai in Germany.
He started aikido practice at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo in 1955 at the age of thirteen and continued training while studying at the Meiji University. In 1965, aged only 23, he was dispatched to West Germany by Kisshomaru Ueshiba as a representant of the Hombu Dojo. Based first in Münster, he directed the aikido section of the Deutscher Judo Bund (The German Judo federation) from 1965 to 1966. However, deeply dissatisfied by the marginal role left to aikido by the judo management, he left the federation and founded in 1967, Aikikai Deutschland, an independent aikido organization in Germany. In 1972, he moved his central dojo to Düsseldorf. He is currently a member of the International Aikido Federation, holds the rank of 8th dan and the title of shihan.
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AIKIDO Katsuaki Asai, Sensei, 8. Dan
AIKIDO Hiroshi Tada, Sensei, 9. Dan - Katsuaki Asai, Sensei,8. Dan
Aikido Asai Sensei Embukai Germany
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- Aikido-Schule K. Asai Düsseldorf(his official website in German)
- Interview with Katsuaki Asai
Christian Tissier
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Christian Tissier (born 1951 in Paris, France) is one of the most well-known European aikido teachers. He started training in aikido as a child in 1962, and trained under Mutsuro Nakazono in Paris until he left for Tokyo in 1969. He came to Aikikai Hombu Dojo as an 18 year old, and trained there for seven years. Among the teachers that have inspired him are Seigo Yamaguchi, Kisaburo Osawa and the second doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba.
He received 7th dan in 1998, and is among the handful of westerners who have been given the title Shihan by the Aikikai.
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Mitsunari Kanai
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Mitsunari Kanai (1938-2004), was an aikido teacher born in Japan, who spent most part of his teaching career in the US. He was an 8th dan teacher with the title shihan in the organisation Aikikai.
Kanai was one of the last group of uchi-deshi under the founder of aikido, Morihei Ueshiba. He entered the Aikikai in 1958 as an uchi-deshi at Hombu Dojo. He came to the United States in 1966 as a 4th dan and subsequently founded the New England Aikikai, currently located off of Porter Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was instrumental in the early development of Aikido in the United States and Canada, and taught seminars widely throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. He was one of the founders and a Technical Director of both the USAF and the CAF.
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Kanai Sensei 1999 part 1
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Hiroshi Kato
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Hiroshi Kato (加藤弘 Kato Hiroshi , born in Tokyo,1935) is a world renowned Aikido Master (8th Dan). He lives in Tokyo,Japan and travels around the world to spread his knowledge about the Art of Aikido. Sensei Kato is a former student of Morihei Ueshiba. Since 1975, Sensei Kato has been teaching in his Dojo "Suginami Aikikai" (affiliated to Aikikai World Headquarters) located in the Ogikubo district and has over 100 committed students.
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Aikido - Hiroshi Kato - Basics Ikkyo
Aikido - Hiroshi Kato Shihan
Seminário de Kato Sensei em Niterói - AABB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3KopiN33qUSeminário de Kato Sensei em Niterói - AABB - II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr5g8rkokt8Kato Sensei e Alê Bull
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlPOl1GUY2UKato Sensei
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Seishiro Endo
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Seishiro Endo (b. 6 Sept. 1943, Nagano) is a Japanese aikido master who presently holds the rank of 8th dan Aikikai.
From 1967, he studied aikido at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo
Today Endo holds regular classes at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo and conducts Rikuyokai (Sunday practice) at Gakushuin University dojo, Tokyo. He also holds numerous seminars in various dojos throughout Japan. Overseas seminars are held every year in France, Sweden, Finland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Austria, Holland and Spain.
In 1993 Endo Sensei constructed Aikido Saku Dojo in his hometown.
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Hiroshi Ikeda
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Hiroshi Ikeda Shihan (born 1950, Tokyo) is the founder of Boulder Aikikai, and the owner of Bujin Design, a martial arts supply company. He holds the rank of 7th dan, awarded by Mitsugi Saotome Shihan in the Aikido World Federation.
Ikeda began studying Aikido in 1968 while attending college at Kokugakin University in Tokyo. He relocated to Sarasota, Florida in 1976, and taught there under Saotome Sensei from 1978-1979. Then, in 1980, he moved to Boulder to establish a dojo there under Saotome's organization, Aikido Schools of Ueshiba.
He currently lives in Boulder, where operates both his dojo and his company. He also travels frequently to conduct seminars both in the United States and abroad.
Hiroshi Ikeda - Wikipedia
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Training with Ikeda Sensei
Tadashi Abe
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Tadashi Abe (1926 - November 23, 1984) was the first aikido master to live and teach in the west. He began Aikido in Osaka in 1942 and went on to train directly under the founder of the art Morihei Ueshiba at Iwama. In 1952, after graduating in law from Waseda University, he moved to France where he both studied law at the Sorbonne, and also taught aikido as a 6th Dan representative of Aikikai Honbu. After seven years he returned to Japan.
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A 1952 film clip featuring Koichi Tohei Kisshomaru Ueshiba and Tadashi Abe
Seiseki Abe
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Seiseki Abe (b. 1915, Osaka) is a famous Japanese shodo and aikido master who had an unique relationship with aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba being both his student in aikido but his teacher in calligraphy[1].
Seiseki Abe - Wikipedia
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