Masatomi Ikeda
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| Masatomi Ikeda | |
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| Born | April 8, 1940  Japan |
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| Residence | Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Aikido teacher |
| Title | shihan, 7th dan Aikikai |
Masatomi Ikeda (池田 昌富[1], いけだ まさとみ, Ikeda Masatomi) (born April 8, 1940) is a Japanese aikido teacher who holds the rank of 7th dan Aikikai[2].
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[edit] Biography
Masatomi Ikeda was born in Tokyo, Japan. He was already interested in budo and sports in general when he was young which resulted in achieving a 5th dan in sumo and 4th dan in judo. Until he started with Aikido in 1958, judo played an essential role in his life. In 1960 he enlisted into the dojo of Hiroshi Tada (9th dan Aikikai). He started intensively practising budo, and especially aikido. He trained himself in judo in the Kodokan Institute and at the dojo of Dokkyo High School. For sumo he trained in the stable Kise’s Sumo.
In 1964, he graduated at the Nippon Physical Education University. In October 1965, he went on his first journey to Italy with the aim of promoting Aikido which he had been teaching for approximately five years. He also obtained a university degree in gymnastics and hygiene; he would have had the possibility of teaching the gymnastics as a pedagogue, but he choose the way of the budoka and spent his time as an aikido professor, primarily in Naples[3].
In 1971, he returned to Japan with the aim of relearning the aikido from the basics[3]. Besides aikido, he worked as gymnastics professor at the Dokkyo High School, where he had been a pupil before. Seven years passed like that instead of one to two years as he had envisaged. He collected some experience in teaching and some knowledge in Asian medicine like Seitai or seibukenkoho (method of cure according to the manner of seibu). He had also the possibility to learn the hojo kata (in the Kobudo Chokoshinei-ryu).
In 1977, he went on a journey in Europe on the request of the Swiss Cultural Association for Aikido (ACSA)[2][3][4]. He arrived in Switzerland in October of that year. When he stayed in Italy, he was also teaching judo, but from his arrival in Switzerland on, he completely dedicated his life to aikido. He was a delegated teacher by the Aikikai Foundation in Tokyo and his occupation was promoting Aikido. He served the ACSA for more than 25 years.
In 1986, the Aikido Ikeda-Dojo Zurich opened. During the following years, as a technical director of the ACSA, he visited without a break the various ACSA dojos all over Switzerland at a rate of two or three dojos per week! He did this in addition to the weekly half-dozen trainings which he directed in his dojo in Zurich. In parallel, he led national and international training seminars to maintain the friendship with and to practice with aikidoka nearby countries. Examples are the yearly ACSA winter stage in Zurich, Switzerland, which he led on many occasions together with Katsuaki Asai of the German Aikikai and Hideki Hosokawa of the Italian Aikikai, the yearly summer stage in Saignelégier, Switzerland, with his teacher Hiroshi Tada shihan of the Italian Aikikai and the yearly late summer or early autumn stage in Praiano, Italy, with Pasquale Aiello[5][6] which were all also good friends of his.
In 1989, he received the 7th dan in Aikikai aikido. Thereafter, he was also occupied with the Aikikai in the Czech Republic since 1995, with the Slovak Aikido Association since 1996 and the Yugoslav Aikido Federation in Serbia since 1997. In 1998 he became also the technical director for the Turkish Aikido Association, and in 1996 he became technical adviser of the International Aikido Federation together with Hiroshi Isoyama (9th dan Aikikai)[7]. In parallel, he regularly taught seminars in countries like Croatia, Hungary, Russia and Poland. Also new connection with Netherlands was evolving however he did not get around to visit it.
During the height of his aikido career was the 30 year anniversary of the ACSA which was celebrated with a major international seminar in Basel from the 5th until 7th of June 1999. On this gigantic event, shihan from many European countries conducted trainings and demonstrations[4].
In spring 2003, Ikeda had to abruptly stop all his activities as aikidoka due to a stroke. He has returned to Japan[3].
[edit] Teachers
The following persons have been his most influential teachers:
- Hiroshi Tada in Aikikai Aikido
- Haruchika Noguchi in Seitai
- Katsuzō Nishi in Nishi Shiki
- Namiki Yasushi in Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū
[edit] Colleges
As an aikido career, the next have been his close colleges:
- Katsuaki Asai
- Hideki Hosokawa[8]
- Pasquale Aiello[5][6]
Note that this list not specifies who are his seniors or juniors.
[edit] Students
These are the most notable of his students[4]:
- Francesco Marrella
- Michele Quaranta
- Fritz Heuscher
- Daniel Vetter
- Therese Uhr
[edit] References
- ^ (Japanese) Aikitube - 合気道動画集 - 池田昌富 (Masatomi IKEDA)
- ^ a b Entry in the Encyclopedia of Aikido Journal
- ^ a b c d (German) M. Ikeda Sensei by Swiss Cultural Association for Aikido
- ^ a b c (German)(French) Swiss Cultural Association for Aikido
- ^ a b (Italian) Pasquale Aiello by Aikikai d'Italia. Italy.
- ^ a b (Italian) Aikido XXXVI, gennaio 2005: biografie, Pasquale Aiello by Aikikai d'Italia. Italy.
- ^ International Aikido Federation
- ^ (Italian) Hideki Hosokawa
[edit] Sources
This biography was initially published in Sanshinkai Letter 5 under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license with the explicit goal to secondarily publish it again as this Wikipedia page where it can be corrected and extended.)
