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.
Archive - 2011
Josh GoldMasatomi 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.
Kazuo Igarashi
(b. 27 March 1946). 7th dan Aikikai-Kobayashi Dojos. B. Niigata Prefecture. Kobayashi Dojos Shihan. Began training at Meiji University Aikido Club in 1964 under Yasuo KOBAYASHI. Taught in Finland and Sweden for one year...
Toshikazu Ichimura
(b. 12 December 1941). 6th dan Aikikai, 1977; 6th dan iaido and Renshi-Dai Nihon Butokukai Zen Nihon Iaido Renmei, 1965. B. Nerima, Tokyo. B. A. in Microeconomics from Toyo University. First taught by Shoji NISHIO at...
Norihiko Ichihashi
(1940-4 March 2001). B. Tokyo. 8th dan Aikikai. Aikikai Hombu Shihan. Entered AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO as an UCHIDESHI in early 1960s.