List of aikidoka

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This is a list of famous and well-known aikido practitioners (aikidoka) sorted by area of primary residence.

In Japanese, the suffix ka (家?) may be added to the name of an activity to describe a practitioner, especially a serious or professional one. Aikido practitioners may thus be called aikidōka, analogous to karateka or judōka. In part because the ka suffix may suggest a certain (high) level of dedication, English-speakers sometimes use more generic terms like "aikidoist" or "aikido student" as well.[1]

For a list of direct students of Morihei Ueshiba please see his legacy.

Contents

[edit] Japan

[edit] The Ueshiba family

[edit] Other Japanese aikidoka

[edit] Australia

[edit] Europe

[edit] North America

[edit] South East Asia

[edit] South America

[edit] Literature

  • Pranin, Stanley A, ed. Aikido masters: prewar students of Morihei Ueshiba. Tokyo: Aiki News. 1993. ISBN 4-900586-14-5 This volume contains 14 in-depth interviews with direct participants in the early days of Aikido publisher
  • Stone, John and Meyer, Ron (eds.) Aikido in America North Atlantic Books 1995. ISBN 1883319277 Interviews limited to 13 aikidoists in the United States from 1990 to 1994; not meant to be comprehensive, Japanese teachers not covered. Editors were primarily interested in how Americans have responded to, changed, and expanded Aikido in the United States.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Westbrook, Adele; Ratti, Oscar (1970). Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere. Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 16-96. ISBN 978-0804800044. 
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