(b. 27 September 1950). Menkyo in Sanyama Bushi Jujutsu, Mokuroku in Miyama-ryu Jujutsu, 2nd dan in Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu-Kodokai [ranks authenticated]. B. A., M.S. Fordham University. Probation officer. Began martial...
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Josh GoldChristoper L. Howey
(b. 22 April 1947). 3rd dan Yoshinkan Aikido-IYAF. University administrator. Began training in Detroit, Michigan in 1973. One of the original incorporators of the AIKIDO YOSHINKAI ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA (AYANA)...
Hideki Hosokawa 細川ひでき
(b. 1942). 6th dan Aikikai. Representative of Aikikai in Italy. Presently residing in Sardinia. Musubi no Kai, Via Priore Berengario 11, Cagliari, Italy.
Haruyoshi Horikoshi 堀川春好
(b. 23 March 1945). 5th dan Aikikai-Kobayashi Dojos. B. Hokkaido. Kobayashi Dojo Senmon Shidoin. Began training at Hosei University Aikido Club under Sadateru ARIKAWA. Taught for ten years in Taiwan, Canada, Sweden...
Taiso Horikawa 堀川泰宗
Also Taishu. B. Morioka, Iwate Prefecture. Father of Kodo HORIKAWA. Operated a gold mine and inn while active as a member of the village council of Yubetsu in Northern Hokkaido. Also an expert of Shibukawa-ryu Jujutsu...
Kodo Horikawa 堀川幸道
(10 April 1894-30 October 1980). Also Kotaro. B. Kitami, Hokkaido, eldest son of Taiso HORIKAWA. Began DAITO-RYU JUJUTSU training on 12 May 1914 under Sokaku TAKEDA and his father. Received the HIDEN MOKUROKU in 1931...
Gaku Homma 本間学
(b. 12 May 1950) Also Manabu. B. Akita Prefecture. Aikido instructor. Trained as an uchideshi in Iwama and Aikikai Hombu Dojo in Tokyo under the Founder Morihei Ueshiba and Morihiro SAITO in the late 1960s. Relocated to...
Hombu Dojo 本部道場
Headquarters training hall; general term used by many organizations to refer to their main school. In aikido context, usually refers to AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO located in Shinjuku Ward of Tokyo. The present four-floor...
Linda Holiday
(b. c. 1954). 4th dan Aikikai. M. A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University. Fluent in Japanese. First taught by Robert FRAGER at the University of California, Santa Cruz c. 1972. Spent several years studying in...