Aikikai information

The Aikikai is the original school of Aikido. It is centered on the Aikikai Foundation in Japan, and its figurehead is the Doshu (the family heir of the...

Iwama Shin Shin Aiki Shuren Kai, Shodokan Aikido, Yoshinkan, Renshinkai, Aikikai and Ki Aikido. Aikido is now practiced in around 140 countries. It was...

development of the Aikikai Honbu organization (and eventually the tearing down of the Kobukan Dojo in 1967 to construct the Aikikai headquarters). In 1952...

Iwama dojo in 1986 and remained so until 2004 when he separated from the Aikikai organization and formed his own group. Since 2009 he is also identified...

Ueshiba. Ueshiba is the third and current Doshu (hereditary head) of the Aikikai. Ueshiba was born on April 2, 1951, in Tokyo, Japan. Recalling his childhood...

at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo before being dispatched abroad to help develop Aikido internationally. He held an 8th dan in Aikido, issued by Aikikai world...

Aikido Hombu Dojo. He was the first Aikido representative of the Japan Aikikai Hombu Dojo to spread and propagate Aikido in the Philippines. Morihei Ueshiba...

the art. Kazuo Chiba, a live-in student (uchideshi) of Ueshiba at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo in Tokyo, recalled in particular the intensity of the training...

techniques are denoted by the number one (and tenkan as two). In modern aikikai irimi techniques are referred to as omote (and tenkan as ura). Ueshiba...

instructor. He was ranked eighth dan in the Aikikai. He was chief instructor at the dojo New York Aikikai, and president of the United States Aikido Federation...

the United States in 1966 by the Aikikai Hombu. He taught in the US for many years. When Koichi Tohei left Aikikai to found Ki-Aikido, Maruyama followed...

instructor of the Hombu Dojo, the headquarters of Aikikai, a title he retained until his official split from Aikikai in 1974. One of the major causes of the conflict...

awarded by him the 2nd dan before leaving for Tokyo in 1969. He came to the Aikikai Hombu Dojo as an 18-year-old, and trained there for seven years. Among...

aikido, begun by Minoru Mochizuki in 1931. In the post war period, the Aikikai Foundation led by the Ueshiba family has become the most successful organisation...

1929) is a Japanese aikido teacher holding the rank of 9th dan in the Aikikai. Born in Tokyo within a former Samurai family with roots from Tsushima...

22, 1950) is a Japanese aikido instructor. He holds the rank of 7th dan Aikikai. Born in Tokyo, his aikido teachers include Morihei Ueshiba and Morihiro...

Ueshiba, the Aikido founder. From April 2012, Ueshiba is Dojocho of the Aikikai Hombu Dojo, and as such is referred to as Waka-sensei (若先生, "young master")...

founded by Koichi Tohei in 1971, while he was the chief instructor at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo. The official Japanese name of the organization is Shin Shin...

June 21, 2021) was a Japanese aikido teacher who held the rank of 7th dan Aikikai. Masatomi Ikeda was born in Tokyo, Japan. He was already interested in...

counter each other's techniques. In other styles of aikido, in particular Aikikai, it refers to a form of practice in which a designated aikidoka defends...

teacher in the Aikikai. According to Mitsugi Saotome, before he was sent to Burma in 1958, he was the most prolific teacher at Aikikai Hombu Dojo. His...

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Ohara was a Japanese aikido instructor, and the founder of the New York Aikikai. Ohara moved to New York City in the 1950s to study Business Administration...

Some well-known dōjō located in Japan are: Kodokan Judo Institute (Judo) Aikikai Hombu Dōjō (Aikido) Noma Dōjō (Kendo) Nakazato Karate Weapons Gym (Shōrin-ryū...

1951 and suggested him to build his own dojo in Osaka, the future Osaka Aikikai Dojo. After the dojo's inauguration (early 1952), Ueshiba spent several...

aikido organisations can be found both within and outside of the Aikikai. The main non-Aikikai branch is Iwama Shin-Shin Aiki Shuren-kai, founded by Morihiro...