(b. 1931). 7th dan Aikikai. B. Wakayama Prefecture. Long-time practitioner and student of Michio HIKITSUCHI. Mr. Motokazu Yanase, 6616-1 Midorigaoka, Shingu-shi, Wakayama-ken 647 Japan (0735)21-5609.
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Josh GoldKotaro Yoshida 吉田幸太郎
(b. October 1883-1966). B. Miyama-mura, Tamura-gun, Fukushima Prefecture.Journalist and writer. Graduated from Tohoku Gakuin in Sendai in 1906. Graduate of Waseda University and an American university. Author of...
Hiroshi Watanabe 渡辺弘
(b. 1931). 7th dan Aikikai. B. Tokyo. Self-Defense Agency employee. Began training c. 1957 at the Self-Defense Agency dojo in Ichigaya. Shibuya-ku Aikido Dokokai, Honcho 2-26-13, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151 Japan (03)375-1933.
Yari 槍
Spear. Morihei UESHIBA is said to have trained intensively in the use of the spear during the AYABE period in the early 1920s. He may have had some formal training in this weapon earlier while studying GOTO-HA YAGYU...
Koichiro Yoshikawa 吉沢こいち郎
(b. 1918). Headmaster of the KASHIMA SHINTO-RYU tradition, a school with a 500-year history whose sword has a clearly demonstrable influence on the development of the AIKI KEN. Yoshikawa authorized the dispatch of three...
Katsuhiro Watanabe
(b. 27 February 1945). 5th dan Aikikai-Kobayashi Dojos. B. Fukushima Prefecture. Kobayashi Dojo Shidoin. Director of Iruma City Aikido Association and instructor at Tanashi City dojo. First taught by Yasuo KOBAYASHI at...