Content author: Irina
| Yamada sensei |
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8th Dan Aikido Aikikai, President of United States Aikido Federation[1] and South-American Aikido Federation, Winner of National Aikido Council of Russia "Tornado" Prize, "For Contribution to Aikido Development in Russia" Nomination
Yoshimitsu Yamada was born on 17 February 1938 in Tokyo. His father, Ichiro, was an academic professor, and his mother, Michio, took care of his home. The father's family was related to Abe family and, when as a child Ichiro lost his parents, he was adopted by them.
The difficult situation of Japan during the II World War forced both families to emigrate to Korea during the forties, where they settled... Read more → |
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| Horikoshi sensei |
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Haruyoshi Horikoshi sensei (7th Dan of Aikido Aikikai) was born on March 23, 1945 in Manchuria.
He began to study aikido after entering the Hosei University in 1965. While practicing aikido in the university group, he started to attend Hombu dojo and was taught by O’Sensei, his son Kisshomary Ueshiba sensei, shihan Arikawa Sodateru and shihan Kobayashi Yasuo. After graduating from the university in 1969, he was employed in the company manufacturing construction equipment. During all subsequent years he proceeded with aikido practicing with shihan Kobayashi Yasuo, was studying also Iaido and Jo-Do (Shinto Muso ryu).
In... Read more → |
| by , on 19 Jan 2010 |
| Kitaura sensei |
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Yasunari Kitaura, a graduate of the Waseda University, Tokio, and the doctor of sciences of the Madrid University, being the art historian, is at the same time a shihan, the holder of the 8th Dan of aikido Aikikai and a direct student of the style founder Morihei Ueshiba and his son Kisshomaru Ueshiba.
Since 1967, Kitaura sensei is a permanent resident of Spain and an official representative of Aikikai in this country; he trained many aikidoka’s of this direction. At present, he is in the head of the Ametsuchi School and the Cultural Association of Aikikai in Spain (АСАЕ -... Read more → |
| by , on 19 Jan 2010 |
| Tamura sensei |
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Shihan, 8th Dan Aikido Aikikai, National Technical Director of French Federation of Aikido and Budo[1], Official Aikikai Representative for Europe
Nobuyoshi Tamura was born on March 02, 1933 in Osaka, Japan. His father was the Kendo teacher well known in Japan. When quite young, by the will of his father, he started quite serious training in exercises with a sword. When Nobuyoshi Tamura was 20, he joined Aikikai Hombu Dojo as an uchi-deshi (live-in student) of O'Sensei. In some sense, it happened by a chance. Being a teenager of 16, after his father died, Nobuyoshi Tamura decided to live on his... Read more → |
| by , on 24 Dec 2009 |
