Grade; rank. Used in the black belt grading system popularized by Jigoro KANO, founder of judo, which has been generally adopted in modern Japanese martial arts. After World War II, some classical martial schools also...
Archive - August 2011
Josh GoldEd Dalton
(b. 27 April 1956). 2nd dan Yoshinkan Aikido-IYAF. Tool and die maker. Began training in November 1985 in Windsor, Ontario. Presently instructs at the Seishinkan Budo Dojo in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
Daitokan 大東館
Name of the former headquarters dojo of DAITO-RYU AIKI BUDO of Tokimune TAKEDA, the late headmaster and son of Sokaku TAKEDA, located in ABASHIRI, Hokkaido. This school represented the historical continuation of the...
Daito Ryu Jujutsu 大東流柔術
A Meiji-period martial art disseminated by Sokaku TAKEDA in numerous parts of Japan until his death in 1943. Daito-ryu Jujutsu consists primarily of a large number of jujutsu techniques, although Sokaku also taught...
Daito Ryu Aikijujutsu 大東流合気柔術
Later name of DAITO-RYU JUJUTSU which first appears in the EIMEIROKU of Sokaku TAKEDA in the Taisho period. His son and present headmaster, Tokimune TAKEDA, explains that the difference in terms was due to the fact that...
Daito Ryu Aiki Budo 大東流合気武道
Name of the Daito-ryu school overseen by Headmaster Tokimune TAKEDA in ABASHIRI, Hokkaido. This form also includes techniques of the Onoha Itto-ryu sword school in addition to the traditional DAITO-RYU JUJUTSU...
Dai Nihon Butokukai 大日本武徳会
(Greater Japan Martial Virtues Society). An organization headquartered in Kyoto established in 1895 in order to promote traditional martial arts and cultivate martial virtues. The members of the first executive council...
Christopher David Curtis
(b. 23 June 1944). 7th Dan Ki no Kenkyukai. Landscape Design / Builder. B. in Upland, California. B.A., Theater Arts, Carnegie Mellon University. First taught aikido by Shin’ichi SUZUKI in 1974. Trained in Japan...