Samurai of lowest rank; foot soldier.
Archive - August 2011
Josh GoldWasaburo Asano 浅野和三郎
(1874-1937). Younger brother of Seikyo ASANO. Japanese pioneer in the field of Psychical Research. Graduate of Tokyo University. Taught English at Naval War College. Famous for translating works of William Shakespeare...
Seikyo Asano 浅野正恭
(28 December 1867-20 October 1945). B. Ibaragi Prefecture. Older brother of Wasaburo ASANO. Vice-admiral in Imperial Japanese Navy. A devout believer in the OMOTO RELIGION, Asano began training under Morihei Ueshiba...
Katsuaki Asai 浅井勝昭
(b. 18 February 1942). 8th dan Aikikai. B. Tokyo. Aikikai Shihan. Dispatched to West Germany by the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO where he arrived on 21 October 1965. Initially based in M
Asahi News Dojo 朝日新聞道場
A dojo of major significance in the history of aikido and Daito-ryu located in the facilities of the Osaka Asahi Newspaper prior to World War II. Morihei UESHIBA taught newspaper employees headed by Takuma HISA at this...
Sadateru Arikawa 有川定輝
(1930-11 October 2003). 9th dan Aikikai. Entered the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO in 1947. Served from 1959 to 1974 as editor of the Japanese-language newspaper of the Aikikai. Avid researcher and collector of aikido-related...
Masashige Aoki 青木政重
(1884-1949). Plasterer by occupation. 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...
Don Angier
(1933-9 October 2014).Headmaster of YANAGI-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU. A student of Kenji Yoshida, son of Kotaro YOSHIDA, who migrated to California where he taught a modified form of DAITO-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU. Angier was the younger...
Tsuneo Ando 安藤恒夫
(b. 29 October 1956). 5th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. B. Ehime Prefecture. Yoshinkan Aikido Kyoshi. Began training in 1975 at Tokushima University in Tokushima Prefecture in Shikoku under Taisuke Kudo. Accompanied Gozo SHIODA...