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The Aiki Dojo Awarded “Outstanding Cultural Organization” 50th Anniversary Southern California Japanese Chamber of Commerce. Recipient of the Brody Multi-Cultural Arts Grant 1988 Aikido Center of Los Angeles, LLC, 1211 N. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012, Tel: (323) 225-1424 www.aikidocenterla.com The Aikido Center of Los Angeles The Aiki Dojo Direct Affiliation: Aikido World Headquarters, 17-18 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan Los Angeles Sword & Swordsmanship Society Kenshinkai Furuya Foundation April 2009 Volume XXVII Number 4 In This Issue… Evolution of Muso Shinden Ryu Part IV Do You Remember? by Gary Myers by David Ito Do You Remember? Iaido Chief Instructor Aikido Chief Instructor by David Ito…..……….…...Page 1 Nakayama Hakudo This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Evolution of Muso Shinden Ryu Founder’s passing and the second year of by Gary Myers.……………...Page 1 In the last article we discussed the Meiji pe- Sensei’s passing. As the years go by it grows riod headmasters of the Tanimura and Shi- easier to forget, which comes naturally be- Letter to Sensei momura branches of Muso Jikiden Eishin cause we are human; we get busy and life by J. Roberto M. Molina ......Page 2 Ryu. In this article we focus on the 20th cen- moves on. In Japan, memorial services are tury sword mas- generally held Sensei and Training ter Nakayama the first, third, by Leonard Manoukian…....Page 2 Hakudo. Ha- fifth, seventh, kudo was born 13th, 39th, 49th, Community in Ishikawa or 50th year, by Mark Ehrlich….………..Page 2 Prefecture in and memorial 1872. His fam- services for My Trip to Denver ily were retain- more than one by Michael Van Ruth………Page 3 ers for the great person become Maede samurai consolidated to Memorial Pictures……......Page 4 clan of that Obon in July or area. He left August. Idyllwild Iaido Photos …..Page 5 his family to live with a mer- I have started to Letters…………………….Page 6 chant family Students care for Sensei’s burial plot wonder about in Tomiyama our grieving Announcements .…….......Page 7 City at the age of eight. He became an eager Sensei’s loss. Everyone has worked very student of the game of Go and was consid- hard to put the dojo together and maintain a Class Schedule……..….…. Page 8 ered to be an expert by the age of 14. When regular practice schedule. I suspect that sen- he was 16, he went to Tokyo to pursue his ior students will now begin to come up for air passion for Go. At 17 he would play a game after holding their breaths for the past two Meditation Class of Go that would change his life. It was with years, and Sensei’s passing will become more Negishi Shingoro, who was the headmaster real to them. Everyone deals with grief dif- Saturdays: 12:00-1:30 PM of the Yushinkan Dojo of swordsmanship, ferently and many different things can hap- (This class is open to the public and is free of charge). and Hakudo became his student shortly there- pen. Some of us have completed our grief, after. The Yushinkan Dojo taught the Shindo but some of us still hold our breath, waiting Munen Ryu form of Kendo, but no forms of for our feelings to dissipate. O’Sensei Memorial Seminar Iai were taught at the school at that time. It is I have noticed that the grieving reactions April 24-26, 2009 said that Hakudo also studied Kendo with range from feeling despair and discourage- Kendo master Terai Ichitaro of the Yamagu- ment, to becoming overly diligent, to every- Guest Instructors: chi Itto Ryu. thing in between. Personally, I find myself Kei Izawa vacillating between these two poles. Yasumasa Itoh Everyone is invited! Continued on page 5… Continued on page 7... Aikido Center of Los Angeles www.aikidocenterla.com Letter to Sensei Sensei and Training by Jose Roberto Magallanes Molina, Aikido 2nd Dan by Leonard Manoukian, Aikido 1st Kyu Co-Chief Instructor, Veracruz Aikikai Perception is a strange thing. When someone is with us, his About ten years ago I read from a famous martial artist that the every word, expression and inflection registers with us. When he most difficult thing was to find a good and true martial arts chides us for our failings, we are hurt. When he acknowledges teacher. My first encounter with Sensei was merely casual be- our success, we are filled with pride. But when that person cause I had learned about him and his dojo in my travels between leaves us, those very experiences, good and bad, turn into fond Mexico and Los Angeles. I visited his dojo and was honored by memories which we share with those around us. As time goes his allowing me to take a class; afterwards I enjoyed a conversa- on, even those memories fade. What is left isn’t so much the tion with him. Immediately the thought came to my mind that I details of the man, but the emotions he elicited in us, the feelings would love to join his dojo and be his student, so we started a he brought on, the seeds that he planted. So it is with Sensei. long-distance correspondence over the Internet in which I would read his daily message, exchange e-mails, etc. And a year later I So what did the Sensei bring out in me? All my life I had known asked permission to be his student, but as I lived in Mexico I men like him. Men who had devoted a lifetime’s effort to one thought it was impossible. To my surprise he took me on as one thing, one cause. They had been Catholic priests, men who had of his branch dojos. left the comforts of family and friendship to serve their religious calling. But Sensei was different. It wasn’t a religious passion In 2004, I visited Sensei on the occasion of ACLA’s 30th anni- that propelled him so much as a drive to refine the simplest of versary and was treated as a special guest, but when I came back things: training to bring body and mind together to accomplish home I wrote a letter to a sensei at Hombu and made the biggest one goal, a moment of perfection! When balance, timing and mistake of my life by embarrassing Sensei with his friends from movement blend to cause one’s opponent to fly across the room Japan. He was really mad at me, but once again, to my surprise with seeming effortlessness. That one moment when one is a he forgave me for my mistake. What a noble gesture! He told vessel of some universal energy. But to what end? Training, of me not to be so aggressive in my actions and I started to learn course! But to what end?! Because we are, none of us, Aiki- more from him. Ever since then, I have attended his seminars doka! We are, all of us, becoming Aikidoka. The transformation each year. When Sensei passed away, I thought that we all have is the goal. The process is the goal. The journey itself becomes lost a true, honest, skillful man of knowledge and a good teacher. the destination. However, Sensei’s senior students have showed me what a good teacher he was in the legacy of good Aikido he left with them. I Of course, I would have preferred to have learned this with Sen- want to say thank you, Sensei, because now I am still learning sei rather than without. But, I learned this because of him. And from you through them. Bless you! that is all that matters. I miss him. It is simple, painful and real. But I rather have this, all of it, than the alternative. Community On the other hand, after a couple of years at the dojo, I felt hard- by Mark Ehrlich, 2nd Kyu pressed to define how my fellow students and I related to each other. I liked everyone well enough, and in some ways I felt I April has arrived, and soon we’ll host our annual O’Sensei Me- knew them, yet often I’d realize how little I actually knew about morial Seminar. This event marks a precious few days when them as people. Part of this, I think, stems from dojo etiquette; new students and seniors, and friends from near and far, gather you come in, train hard, clean up, and go -- the daily life of a together at the dojo to train and enjoy some all-too-infrequent martial artist. And while you learn a lot about people from social time. I’ve come to think of it as a time of year when eve- throwing them across the mat and getting thrown in your turn, ryone trains hard, eats well, and laughs a lot. As we prepare for you don’t learn everything. I have witnessed students join the this year’s seminar, I find myself looking back on past ones, and dojo, train for a time, and then leave without knowing why they on daily life in the dojo in general, and thinking about the nature left or why they enrolled in the first place. of the relationships I’ve created through Aikido. Tom Lehrer, a comedian well-known before some of us had even For the longest time I thought of ACLA as a place separate from come into the world, once quipped, “Life is like a sewer. What the other avenues of my life, a tiny cul-de-sac that I would visit you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” Our knowl- privately and not discuss with anyone in the rest of my world.
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