(1922-12 August 2008). 9th dan Aikikai. B. Hokkaido. Aikikai Shihan. Standing Director of All-Japan Aikido Federation. Okumura entered KENKOKU UNIVERSITY in Manchuria in 1938 where he began training in AIKI BUDO under...
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Josh GoldDavid William Lynch
(b.1939). 6th dan Yoshinkan Aikido, 3rd dan Aikikai, 3rd dan Tendokan, 2nd dan Shinshin Toitsu aikido (ranks authenticated). Aikido instructor and tourism consultant. Began training at Yoshinkan Hombu Dojo under Gozo...
Metsuke 目突け
Eye-to-eye contact without focusing on a single point which permits awareness of the total field of vision.
Aritoshi Murashige 村重有利
(7 January 1895-24 March 1964). Also Aritomo. A judoka and practitioner of Katori Shinto-ryu at the Kodokan together with Minoru MOCHIZUKI in the late 1920s. Began martial arts training in 1908. Entered the KOBUKAN DOJO...
Heizaburo Nakatsu
(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 1937 in Osaka.