7th dan Aikikai. Member of the instructors’ staff at Aikikai Hombu Dojo.
Archive - August 2011
Josh GoldIsamu Takeshita 竹下勇
(4 December 1869-6 July 1949). Born Yamamoto. B. Hayato-cho, Aira-gun, Kagoshima Prefecture. Imperial Navy Admiral. As a second son unable to succeed his father he was adopted into the Takeshita family as a boy...
Takafumi Takeno 竹野高文
(b. c. 1944). 7th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. Yoshinkan Aikido Shihan. Assisted Kyoichi INOUE in the instruction of female police officers in Tokyo for many years. Presently is the Yoshinkan Aikido shihan for Yamanashi...
Takemusu Aiki Association of Australia
An organization formed in 1977 by Saburo Takayasu to preserve and promote the technical legacy of the founder’s aikido of the Iwama period, as taught by Morihiro SAITO. Incorporated into a non-profit organisation...
Takemusu Aiki 武産合気
AIKI which gives birth to martial techniques. An expression coined by Morihei UESHIBA to refer to the highest level of aikido where one is capable of spontaneously executing perfect techniques. These characters appear...
Yoshinobu Takeda
8th dan Aikikai. Began aikido training at AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO in the early 1960s. One of the leading students of Seigo YAMAGUCHI. Currently the director of Aikido Kenkyukai International and the Shonan Aikido Renmei in...
Tokimune Takeda 武田時宗
(7 October 1916-2 December 1993). B. Shimo-Yubetsu, Mombetsu-gun, Hokkaido. Headmaster of DAITO-RYU AIKI BUDO. Retired police detective. Third son and successor of Sokaku TAKEDA. Underwent extensive martial arts...
Sokaku Takeda 武田惣角
(10 October 1859-25 April 1943). B. at 63 Oikeda Oaza, Hirosemura, Kawanuma-gun, Aizu near Aizubange-cho, in present-day Fukushima Prefecture as the second son of Sokichi Takeda. Disseminator of DAITO-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU in...
Munemitsu Takeda 武田むねみつ
(b. c. 1924). Fourth son of Sokaku TAKEDA through his second marriage to Sue TAKEDA. Presently resides in Rubeshibe, Hokkaido where his son operates a small DAITO-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU dojo.