. Front. Used in contrast to URA or rear techniques and normally refers to movements where the defender executes an entering movement when commencing a technique. Omote and ura are basically synonymous with the words...
Archive - 2011
Josh GoldBjorn Eirik Olsen
(b. 2 October 1955). 4th dan Aikikai, 1989. Cross cultural relations adviser. Began training in 1977 in Norway. Has made several trips to Japan including a two-year stay from 1982-1984 practicing mainly at the...
T. S. Okuyama
(b. 30 April 1949). 6th Dan Aikikai (2003). Aikido/iaido instructor. B. in Shizuoka, Japan. B.S. in engineering (Illinois Institute of Technology). First taught aikido by Akira TOHEI in 1972 in Chicago. Also studied...
Shigenobu Okumura 奥村繁信
(1922-12 August 2008). 9th dan Aikikai. B. Hokkaido. Aikikai Shihan. Standing Director of All-Japan Aikido Federation. Okumura entered KENKOKU UNIVERSITY in Manchuria in 1938 where he began training in AIKI BUDO under...
Seigo Okamoto 岡本正剛
(10 February 1925-16 January 2015). B. Yubari City, Hokkaido. First taught by Kodo HORIKAWA in 1963 in Kitami, Hokkaido. Received 7th dan from Horikawa in 1974. Okamoto was promoted to shihan by Horikawa in 1978. He...
Kenkichi Ohgami
(b. 7 March 1936). 8th dan Kansai Aikido Club. Dojo Adminstrator. B. in Kyushu, Japan. Entered Kansai Aikido Club in 1961 being taught Daito-ryu aikijujutsu by Takuma Hisa. Received Daito-ryu 5th dan and KYOJU DAIRI in...
Ofudesaki
The automatic, trance writings of Nao DEGUCHI, foundress of the Omoto religion. By her death in 1918, she completed nearly ten thousand folios, equivalent to about 100,000 sheets.
Gloria Eiko Nomura
6th dan Aikikai. Aikido instructor. B. in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Graduate of University of California, Berkeley in 1955. Masters and Doctorate from School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California. First...
Seiji Noma 野間清治
(b. 17 December 1878-16 October 1938). The founder of the Kodansha Publishing Company and kendo enthusiast at whose dojo Morihei UESHIBA taught briefly in the mid-1930s. It was there that his son Hisashi and his...
Hisashi Noma 野間恒
(24 April 1909-7 November 1938). Kendoka. Son of Seiji NOMA, founder of Kodansha Publishing Company. One of Japan’s top kendoka during the mid-1930s and a friend and contemporary of Kiyoshi NAKAKURA. In May 1934...