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Fuku Shidoin 副指導員

Assistant instructor. The lowest of three instructor levels instituted by the AIKIKAI HOMBU at the time of the creation of the INTERNATIONAL AIKIDO FEDERATION. Corresponds approximately to 2nd and 3rd dan. See SHIDOIN...

Mary Heiny

(b. c. 1942). 5th dan Aikikai. B. A. in Japanese Studies from University of Washington. Fluent in Japanese. Studied for several years in Tokyo and Shingu under Michio HIKITSUCHI in late 1960s and early 1970s. One of the...