(b. 7 March 1936). 8th dan Kansai Aikido Club. Dojo Adminstrator. B. in Kyushu, Japan. Entered Kansai Aikido Club in 1961 being taught Daito-ryu aikijujutsu by Takuma Hisa. Received Daito-ryu 5th dan and KYOJU DAIRI in...
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Josh GoldLionel Oudart
(b. 1942). 3rd dan Aikido-IMAF, 1981 [rank authenticated]. Instructor of martial arts and yoga. Also holds 2nd dan in judo and Katori Shinto-ryu. Began martial arts training c. 1965. Trained in aikido and AIKI BUDO...
Giuseppe Lisco
(b. 1957). 4th dan CONI-FILPJ. Aikido instructor. First taught by Giorgio Oscari in 1973 in Modena, Italy. Trained in Japan as an UCHIDESHI in IWAMA under Morihiro SAITO in 1985 and 1987. Operates two dojos near Modena...
Merg
Italian orientalist and authority on Japanese language and culture who spent nine years in Japan beginning c. 1937 on a diplomatic mission for the Italian government. Merg
Masatoshi Morita 森田正利
(b. 1947). 5th dan Yoshinkan Aikido. Aikido instructor. First taught by Gozo SHIODA in Tokyo in 1965. Moved to U. S. in 1974 and established the Aikido Yoshinkai in San Francisco in 1983. Aikido Yoshinkai Association of...
Masaharu Nakanishi
(b. 14 July 1915). 6th dan Aikikai, 1983 [rank authenticated]. Also 7th dan in Suemonogiri Kempo (Enshin-ryu Iai). Practiced judo and Yoshin-ryu Jujutsu, Kukishin-ryu Bojutsu, Enshin-ryu Kumiuchi Heiho, and Shindo Muso...