As a holiday gift to the aikido community, Aikido Journal has created a new version of our Principal Disciples of Morihei Ueshiba chart, originally developed by AJ founder Stanley Pranin. We hope you’ll enjoy and...
Category - Encyclopedia
Josh GoldAiki Expo
The Aiki Expo events were major aikido seminars sponsored by Aikido Journal and conceived and organized by Stanley Pranin that gathered together many high-ranking teachers from Aikido, Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu, classical...
Aiuchi 合打
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...
Nobuyuki Watanabe 渡辺信之
(b. 1930). 7th dan Aikikai. B. Miyazaki Prefecture. Aikikai Shihan. Entered the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO as an UCHIDESHI in the early 1960s. Featured in two Japanese television programs entitled Do Sports, 1986 and April 1987...
Antony Yates
(b. 28 February 1947). 8th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. Yoshinkan Aikido Shibucho for the U. K. Senior schoolmaster. Began training in judo at 1961 and aikido in 1969. Studied YOSHINKAN AIKIDO with Jang Eun Yu from early to...
Yoshinkan Aikido 養神館合気道
The name of the school of aikido established by Gozo SHIODA in 1955. Shioda adopted the name used by his father earlier for the family dojo. The techniques of Yoshinkan Aikido strongly reflect the pre-war training of...
Kiyoshi Watatani
Martial arts historian. Co-author of the massive reference work Bugei Ryuha Daijiten (Encyclopedia of Martial Arts Schools). This Japanese-language work, published in 1978, contains a record of most of those persons...
Barbara Yates
(b. 1946). 3rd dan Aikikai. University of Iowa, J. D. Instructor in American Literature Department of Daito Bunka University. First taught by Jeff Fox in 1971. Has practiced in Japan since 1977 initially with Michio...
Yoshinkan Aikido Deutschland
YOSHINKAN AIKIDO organization in West Germany headed by Hiromichi NAGANO. Yoshinkan Aikido Deutschland, Hiltenspergerstr. 9, Munchen 40, 8000 West Germany (089)271-6444.
Sadao Yoshioka 吉岡貞夫
(c. 1923-19 January 1990). 6th dan Aikikai. Began training in Hawaii in mid-1950s. A pioneer of aikido in Hawaii, Yoshioka opened the Nuuanau YMCA Aikido Club in 1959. He participated in the creation of the...