THE PRINCIPAL DISCIPLES OF MORIHEI UESHIBA Koichi Tohei VISUALIZATION 1920-2011 Kenzo Futaki 1873-1966 Isamu Takeshita Minoru Hirai 1920 1869-1949 1903-1998 Seikyo Asano Kaoru Funahashi Kenji Tomiki Saburo Wakuta 1867-1945 c1911-unknown 1900-1979 1903-1989 Yoichiro Inoue Shigemi Yonekawa 1902-1994 1910-2005 1930 Kosaburo Gejo Shigenobu Okumura c1862-unknown 1922-2008 Rinjiro Shirata 20’s 1912-1993 Bansen Tanaka 30’s 1912-1988 Aritoshi Murashige 1895-1964 Makoto Miura Kiyoshi Nakakura 1940 1875-unknown 1910-2000 Kenji Tomita 1897-1977 Minoru Mochizuki 1907-2003 Takako Kunigoshi Tsutomu Yukawa 1911-c2000 1950 c1911-1942 Takuma Hisa Zenzaburo Akazawa Hajime Iwata Hisao Kamada 1895-1980 1919-2007 1909-2003 1911-1986 Gozo Shioda 1960 Yoshio Sugino 1915-1994 1904-1998 Kanshu Sunadomari Tadashi Abe 1923-2010 1926-1984 Second Doshu Kisaburo Osawa 1920 25 1911-1991 Morihiro Saito 1928-2002 Aikido Founder 20 40’s 15 10 1960 1930 Hirokazu Kobayashi Kisshomaru Ueshiba 5 1929-1998 1921-1999 Sadateru Arikawa 1930-2003 Hiroshi Tada 1929- Hiroshi Isoyama 1950 1940 1937- Present Doshu NOTES Michio Hikitsuchi * 1923-2004 Seigo Yamaguchi 1924-1996 • This chart presents the major disciples of Morihei Ueshiba Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba during his 1883-1969 teaching career which spanned the period of 1920 to 1969. Shoji Nishio • The visualization is a graphical representa- 1927-2005 Masamichi Noro 1935-2013 tion of the number of disciples referenced in Seiseki Abe this chart, but is not a statistical analysis of Shuji Maruyama 1915-2011 Moriteru Ueshiba the complete roster of the direct disciples of 1940- 1951- the Founder. Fukiko Sunadomari • Ueshiba first began teaching Daito-ryu aiki- 1914-2006 jujutsu in Ayabe in 1920, and then relocated Yoshio Kuroiwa to Tokyo in 1927. His art was known as “Aiki 1932-2010 Budo” during the 1930s before the creation Nobuyoshi Tamura of modern aikido in postwar Iwama. 1933-2010 Terry Dobson • The Founder made regular trips to the 1937-1992 Yutaka Kurita Mitsugi Saotome * Kansai area including Osaka, his native 50’s 1940- 1937- Tanabe and Shingu in Wakayama Prefecture. • Individuals are listed approximately in Masando Sasaki chronological order according to the decade 1929-2013 Morito Suganuma Nobuyuki Watanabe of their first instruction from the Founder. 1942- 1930- Minoru Kurita • Those names denoted with an asterisk(*) 1943- 60’s first started training at an earlier date before Mitsunari Kanai their main study under the Founder. 1939-2004 Masatake Fujita • Some of the persons listed were included 1937-2014 Andre Nocquet Norihiko Ichihashi primarily due to their prominent roles in the 1913-1999 * 1940-2001 dissemination of aikido rather than duration of training under the Founder. Note that this Kenji Shimizu Seiichi Sugano 1940- chart is not a complete and definitive listing. 1939-2010 Responsibility for this selection rests with Seijuro Masuda Akira Tohei 1936- Stanley Pranin, founder and former editor of 1929-1999 Kazuo Chiba Koretoshi Maruyama Aiki News / Aikido Journal. This chart is 1940-2015 1936- designed to be a faithful reproduction of data Katsuaki Asai Shizuo Imaizumi * 1938- as last updated by Stanley Pranin. 1942- Seishiro Endo 1942- •The chart should be construed as an ongoing project. Through collaborating with Yoshimitsu Yamada experts in the aikido community, we hope to 1938- Yasuo Kobayashi publish an expanded and updated overview 1936- of the principal disciples of the Founder in the future. Copyright © 2018 by Aikido Journal With support from Designed by Mario Sapienza Aikido Journal www.aikidojournal.com.