(b. 1939.) Senior Shihan, Daitoryu Aikijujutsu Bokuyokan, Jun-Honbucho (Japan)/So-Shibucho (USA). B. in China. First practiced Chinese Kung Fu and Taiji Quan as a boy. Began training in jujutsu, kendo, and iaido in 1965 while a student at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. Met Katsumi YONEZAWA in 1978, later becoming his UCHIDESHI. Currently teaches Japanese Martial Arts including Daitoryu Aikijujutsu, kendo and Chinese martial Arts including Taiji Quan, Taiji and Wudong swordsmanship.
As a holiday gift to the aikido community, Aikido Journal has created a new version of our Principal Disciples of Morihei Ueshiba chart, originally developed by AJ founder Stanley Pranin. We hope you’ll enjoy and...
The Aiki Expo events were major aikido seminars sponsored by Aikido Journal and conceived and organized by Stanley Pranin that gathered together many high-ranking teachers from Aikido, Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu, classical...
Mutual strike or cut. Sword term used to describe the circumstance where two swordsmen strike each other simultaneously. In AIKI KEN terminology, often used in contradistinction to AINUKE where neither swordsman can...
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