(28 February 1931-26 January 2010) Also Toshio. 8th dan Aikikai. Aikikai Shihan. One of the offical representatives of AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO in Brazil. Relocated to Brazil in late 1958. Taught aikido briefly by Aritoshi MURASHIGE in the early 1960s. He opened the first dojo in South America in Sao Paulo in 1963 and several others during the 1960s and early 1970s. He was named official Aikikai representative for Brazil in 1975. Kawai established an organization called the FEDERA
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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