Middle school teacher in Sakai, Osaka. Teacher of Yagyu Shingan-ryu Jujutsu with whom Morihei UESHIBA studied in the early 1900s in Kai-machi, Sakai City, near Osaka. The Nakai dojo opened on 19 September 1891. Ueshiba...
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Josh GoldKim Otto Nielsen
(b. 1959). 3rd dan Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu-Roppokai. Roppokai Shibucho for Denmark. B. A. in Japanese from University of Copenhagen. First taught DAITO-RYU AIKIJUJUTSU by Seigo OKAMOTO in Tokyo in 1983. Established a...
Greg O’connor
(b. 5 March 1954). 6th dan USAF Shidoin. Full-time aikido instructor since 1987. B. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. First taught aikido by Yoshimitsu YAMADA and Rick Stickles in 1977. Author of The Aikido Student...
Oshikiuchi 御式内
Early term referring to a set of martial techniques said to have been passed down secretly to samurai within the Aizu Clan. These techniques were among those elements incorporated into DAITO-RYU JUJUTSU as later taught...
Mongolia, 1924 Expedition to
Morihei Ueshiba accompanied Onisaburo DEGUCHI to Mongolia in February 1924 on a secret expedition with the stated purpose of founding a religious colony there. Onisaburo and his party became enmeshed in local politics...