First rank or grade. First degree black belt in martial arts ranking systems.
Archive - August 2011
Josh GoldShobu Aiki Kai
A TOMIKI AIKIDO organization established by Steven DUNCAN in 1987 which groups together former students of Karl GEIS and which has adopted Geis’ non-competitive approach to Tomiki Aikido. A sister organization of...
Fumiaki Shishida 志々田文明
(b. 1949). 7th dan Tomiki Aikido-JAA, 1988 [rank authenticated]. Graduate in Philosophy of Waseda University. M. A. in Martial Arts Theory from Tsukuba University. Associate Professor, Waseda University School of Human...
Shirataki 白滝
A small town in the northern part of Hokkaido where Morihei UESHIBA lived from 1912-1919. Ueshiba played a leadership role in the clearing of the land and settling of this town as part of a group of colonizers from...
Rinjiro Shirata 白田林二郎
(29 March 1912-29 May 1993). 9th dan Aikikai (1972). Awarded 10th dan posthumously. Aikikai Shihan. B. Oyamura, Yamagata Prefecture. From a family of OMOTO believers whose mother practiced AIKI BUDO at a dojo of the...
Yasuhisa Shioda 塩田養心館
(b. 15 November 1952). B. Tokyo. Yoshinkan Aikido Shihan. Graduate in Economics of Chuo University. Began training in 1970 at the Aikido Yoshinkan Yoyogi Dojo. Spent three years in the U. K. from 1981-1984 where he...
Gozo Shioda 塩田剛三
(9 September 1915-17 July 1994). Also Takeshi. B. Tokyo. Founder of YOSHINKAN AIKIDO. Graduate of Takushoku University. Studied judo and kendo as a youth. Entered the KOBUKAN DOJO in 1932 where he studied for eight...
Shinwa Taido 心和体道
A postwar martial art similar to aikido founded by Noriaki INOUE, nephew of aikido founder Morihei UESHIBA. The art was first taught as AIKI BUDO in Tokyo and then renamed to Shinwa Taido in 1956. Its name was...