(b. c. 1946). 6th dan Aikikai. B. Iwama, Ibaragi Prefecture. Early student of Morihiro SAITO who lived as an UCHIDESHI in IWAMA dojo for over two years. Appears in numerous technical photos of Saito’s books...
Archive - August 2011
Josh GoldShizuo Imaizumi 今泉鎮雄
(b. 1938). 7th dan Shinshin Toitsu Aikido. Graduate of Waseda University where he began his aikido training in May 1959. Became a full-time instructor at the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO in January 1965. First traveled abroad in...
Ikkyo 一教
First teaching; refers in aikido to a basic technique in which the attacker is unbalanced through the application of pressure on the elbow and shoulder of his outstretched arm which is followed by a pinning movement...
Ikkajo 一ケ条
First teaching; older term borrowed from DAITO-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU which, used in the aikido context, means essentially the same as IKKYO. Still used in YOSHINKAN AIKIDO.
Masatomi Ikeda 池田昌富
(b. 8 April 1940). 7th dan Aikikai. AIKIKAI HOMBU representative for Switzerland. Taught by Hiroshi TADA. Taught aikido in Naples, Italy for several years and then returned to Japan. Relocated to Switzerland in 1977...
Hiroshi Ikeda 池田裕
(b. 1950). 7th dan Aikikai. B. in Hachiojima, Tokyo. Began aikido training under Mitsugi Saotome while a student in the aikido club of Kokugakuin Univesity. Entered Saotome’s Reimeijuku dojo in 1970. Relocated to...
Ikuo Iimura 飯村郁男
(1925-25 August 2004). B. Tokyo. 8th dan Aikikai. Employed as a technician by the Self-Defense Force. A mainstay of early morning practice at Aikikai Hombu Dojo starting in the mid-1950s through the 1990s. Also studied...
Kin’ichi Iida 飯田勤一
(1887-1941). Japanese inn operator. Teacher of KASHIMA SHINTO-RYU who taught at both the KODOKAN and the KOBUKAN DOJO at the request of Jigoro KANO and Morihei UESHIBA respectively. Dispatched by current headmaster...
Masahiro Iguchi
(b. 1920). 8th dan Aikikai. B. Wakayama Prefecture. Public servant. Hombu Chokkatsu Iguchi Dojo, 354-3 Fujisaki, Naga-cho, Naga-gun, Wakayama-ken 649-66 Japan (0736)75-5178.