Founder of Aikido (11): King of Shirataki by Kisshomaru Ueshiba
Shirataki Village is located in Monbetsu County, Hokkaido. Today it is a thriving town due to profits from its forestry, agriculture, stock and dairy farming, and lumber industry. However, it was not...
View ArticleInterview with Tokimune Takeda (2) by Stanley Pranin
This interview with Tokimune Takeda Sensei, present headmaster of Daito-ryu Aiki Budo, was conducted at his home in Abashiri, Hokkaido in 1986 by Aiki News editor-in-chief Stanley Pranin. The son of...
View ArticleInterview with Kisshomaru Ueshiba: The Early Days of Aikido
It seems that he went to Tokyo depending on the support of the Inoues. I’m referring to a relative of Mr. Noriaki Inoue in Tanabe. Shortly after coming to Tokyo my father suffered from beriberi. So he...
View ArticleLecture on Kotaro Yoshida (4)
After winning the match with the bandit’s champion, Yoshida was released. It was at this time that he started to form his theory of the “cosmic circle” (whirling). It took him seventeen years to...
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Did Morihei ever injure or kill anyone? Here is what we know…”
Morihei Ueshiba at Kobukan Dojo c. 1936 A recent blog on Aikido Journal that touched upon the subject of competition in martial arts resulted in a rather animated discussion. One reader wrote an...
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Morihei Ueshiba and Sokaku Takeda, by Stanley Pranin
“In modern psychological terms the association between Morihei Ueshiba and Sokaku Takeda might be characterized as a “love-hate” relationship.” Few individuals have so thoroughly investigated the...
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Sokaku Takeda: Bodyguard in Hokkaido by Tokimune Takeda
“When Sokaku was 21 years old he engaged in a life-or-death struggle with some 300 rowdy construction workers for six hours!” From Aiki News #70 (March 1986) Sokaku Takeda c. 1910 Since I receive many...
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Founder of Aikido (12): The First Encounter with Master Sokaku Takeda by...
Sokaku Takeda posing for a technique at the Asahi News Dojo in Osaka c. 1939 “Though Morihei was physically stronger than Takeda, he was powerless in the face of his teacher’s control of technique and...
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Morihei’s Ueshiba Juku, Launchpad of a Martial Arts Career, by Stanley Pranin
Morihei inside of Ueshiba Juku, Ayabe c. 1922 “The role of this much maligned religious sect in the launching of Morihei’s career, and the subsequent birth and spiritual emphasis of aikido cannot be...
View ArticleInterview with Tokimune Takeda (Part 1) by Stanley Pranin
Now that the role of Daito-ryu in the development of aikido is better understood I think it likely that more aikido people will become interested in the history of the art. I would like to begin by...
View ArticleFace to face with Sokaku Takeda
The article below was reprinted with the kind permission of Tokimune Takeda Sensei, Headmaster of Daito-ryu Aiki Budo and the son of Sokaku Takeda Sensei. In 1929, Navy Admiral Isamu Takeshita began...
View ArticleFounder of Aikido (10): From Nothing to Something by Kisshomaru Ueshiba
Shirataki village, in Monbetsu County, Hokkaido, was founded in 1912 when independent settlers and a group of 54 families from Wakayama Prefecture (under O-Sensei’s leadership) settled the area along...
View ArticleFounder of Aikido (13): The Big Fire and His Father’s Death by Kisshomaru...
O-Sensei and his group expected to have a hard go of it in Hokkaido at first, and for a few years crops were poor, but after 1913 their life settled down thanks to the increasing income from lumbering....
View ArticleFounder of Aikido (11): King of Shirataki by Kisshomaru Ueshiba
Shirataki Village is located in Monbetsu County, Hokkaido. Today it is a thriving town due to profits from its forestry, agriculture, stock and dairy farming, and lumber industry. However, it was not...
View ArticleInterview with Tokimune Takeda (2) by Stanley Pranin
This interview with Tokimune Takeda Sensei, present headmaster of Daito-ryu Aiki Budo, was conducted at his home in Abashiri, Hokkaido in 1986 by Aiki News editor-in-chief Stanley Pranin. The son of...
View ArticleInterview with Kisshomaru Ueshiba: The Early Days of Aikido
It seems that he went to Tokyo depending on the support of the Inoues. I’m referring to a relative of Mr. Noriaki Inoue in Tanabe. Shortly after coming to Tokyo my father suffered from beriberi. So he...
View ArticleLecture on Kotaro Yoshida (4)
After winning the match with the bandit’s champion, Yoshida was released. It was at this time that he started to form his theory of the “cosmic circle” (whirling). It took him seventeen years to...
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Did Morihei ever injure or kill anyone? Here is what we know…”
Morihei Ueshiba at Kobukan Dojo c. 1936 A recent blog on Aikido Journal that touched upon the subject of competition in martial arts resulted in a rather animated discussion. One reader wrote an...
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