(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...
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Josh GoldKatsuhiro 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...
Masatoshi Yasuno
(b. 7 September 1948). 7th dan Aikikai. Aikikai Shihan. B. Kanazawa Prefecture. First practiced aikido as a university student in 1967. Heavily influenced by Seigo YAMAGUCHI. Has traveled to numerous countries...
Yoshiteru Yoshimura
(Dates unknown). Member of the Asahi News dojo who studied under both Morihei Ueshiba and Sokaku TAKEDA in Osaka from c. 1933 to 1939. Awarded the KYOJU DAIRI by Sokaku in October 1936 in Osaka.
Nobuyuki Watanabe 渡辺信之
(b. 1930). 7th dan Aikikai. B. Miyazaki Prefecture. Aikikai Shihan. Entered the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO as an UCHIDESHI in the early 1960s. Featured in two Japanese television programs entitled Do Sports, 1986 and April 1987...
Antony Yates
(b. 28 February 1947). 8th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. Yoshinkan Aikido Shibucho for the U. K. Senior schoolmaster. Began training in judo at 1961 and aikido in 1969. Studied YOSHINKAN AIKIDO with Jang Eun Yu from early to...