(c1865-?) B. Yamagata Prefecture. An Imperial Navy commander and contemporary of Admiral Isamu TAKESHITA who studied under Morihei UESHIBA starting c. 1925 through the early 1930s. An expert in the Yagyu Shinkage-ryu...
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Josh GoldFrits W. Van Gulick
(b. 1944). 4th dan Tomiki Aikido-JAA. Sociologist and regional planner. Began training at the Sportschool Bontje in the Hague, the Netherlands in 1973 under John Bontje. Spent seven months in Japan beginning in the...
Kengo Hatayama 畑山憲吾
(b. 28 June 1947). 6th dan Aikikai-Kobayashi Dojos. B. Akita Prefecture. Kobayashi Dojo Shihan. Began training at Akita Branch Dojo in 1968. Spent from 1978 to early 1981 teaching in West Germany as an assistant to...
Terry Dobson
(1937-1992). An early American practitioner who lived among the UCHIDESHI at the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO in Tokyo for several years in the early 1960s. Dobson returned to the U. S. in the early 1970s and resided initially in...
Seishiro Endo 遠藤征四郎
(b. 6 September 1942). 8th dan Aikikai. B. Nagano Prefecture. Aikikai Shihan. Entered AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO as UCHIDESHI c. 1964.