Certificate of advanced proficiency. Highest certificate of proficiency awarded in many traditional Japanese martial art systems. Sokaku TAKEDA is known to have awarded DAITO-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU menkyo kaiden to Takuma HISA and Masao Tonedate of the ASAHI NEWSPAPER DOJO.
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Mutual strike or cut. Sword term used to describe the circumstance where two swordsmen strike each other simultaneously. In AIKI KEN terminology, often used in contradistinction to AINUKE where neither swordsman can...
Josh Gold
Roy Yukio Suenaka holds the 3rd of the 3 o sensei issued.
I am not aware of any Menkyo Kaiden issued by O Sensei. This is especially unlikely given how late, and for how short a time, Mr Suenaka studied in Tokyo (1961). Do you have any evidence to back up this claim?