(b. c. 1908). B. Niigata Prefecture. One of the top students of famous swordsman Hakudo NAKAYAMA. Entered the YUSHINKAN DOJO at age 17 in 1924. Known as one of the samba garasu (three crows, roughly equivalent to the Three Musketeers) of kendo fame in 1920s and 1930s. See also Jun’ichi HAGA and Kiyoshi NAKAKURA. Kiyoshi Nakakura (1987)
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...
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...
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...
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