Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba 1883-1969 1920s 1930s 1950s 1960s Yoichiro Inoue Kaoru Funahashi Seigo Yamaguchi Mitsugi Saotome * 1902-1994 c1911-unknown 1924-1996 1937- Nephew of Founder, est. Kobukan uchideshi from Senior Aikikai shihan, Postwar uchideshi to USA 1975, Shin’ei Taido Omoto family active internationally est. Aikido Schools of Ueshiba Seikyo Asano Kenzo Futaki Michio Hikitsuchi* Terry Dobson 1867-1945 1873-1966 1923-2004 1937-1992 Vice-admiral who intro- Famous epidemiologist Kumano dojo-cho, awarded Early American shidoin at duced Founder to Takeshita known as “Dr. Brown Rice” oral 10th dan in 1969 Aikikai and later author Isamu Takeshita Shigemi Yonekawa Shoji Nishio Minoru Kurita Second Doshu 1869-1949 1910-2005 Kisshomaru Ueshiba 1927-2005 1943- Admiral and patron-student Kobukan uchideshi, ap- Aikikai 8th dan, active Last postwar uchideshi, of Founder in Tokyo pears in Noma dojo photos 1921-1999 internationally est. Aikido Seikikai Kenji Tomiki Rinjiro Shirata Fukiko Sunadomari Norihiko Ichihashi * 1900-1979 1912-1993 1914-2006 1940-2001 Waseda judoka and Kobukan uchideshi and Naginata adept and Aikikai Aikikai shidoin, and later scholar, est. Tomiki Aikido senior shihan in Yamagata Fujin Bucho Aikikai Hombu shihan Kosaburo Gejo Takako Kunigoshi Nobuyoshi Tamura Kenji Shimizu c1862-unknown 1911-c2000 1933-2010 1940- Navy Commander and Art student and illustrator Postwar Aikikai uchideshi Aikikai shidoin, est. Yagyu Shinkage-ryu expert of Budo Renshu to France in 1964 Tendokan Aikido Makoto Miura Kiyoshi Nakakura Seiseki Abe Shizuo Imaizumi * 1875-unknown 1910-2000 Present Doshu 1915-2011 1938- Major General and Famous kendoka and Moriteru Ueshiba Master calligrapher, teach- Aikikai shidoin to New York patron-student of Founder adopted son of Founder 1951- er and Osaka dojo-cho 1975, est. Shin Budo Kai Hisao Kamada Tsutomu Yukawa Masamichi Noro Seishiro Endo 1911-1986 c1911-1942 1935- 1942- Omoto believer and early Kobukan uchideshi and Postwar uchideshi to France Aikikai shidoin, presently Tokyo uchideshi Osaka dojo-cho 1940s in 1961, est. Kinomichi Aikikai Hombu shihan Hajime Iwata Gozo Shioda Kisaburo Osawa Yoshio Kuroiwa Morito Suganuma 1909-2003 1915-1994 1911-1991 1932-2010 1942- Early Tokyo uchideshi and Kobukan uchideshi, est. Senior Aikikai shihan, Former boxer, Aikikai stu- Aikikai shidoin to Waseda law graduate Yoshinkan Aikido dojo-cho and assistant to dent and writer on aikido Fukuoka, Kyushu 1970 Minoru Mochizuki Yoshio Sugino Kanshu Sunadomari Masando Sasaki Koretoshi Maruyama 1907-2003 1904-1998 1923-2010 1929- 1936- Competitive judoka, est. Early competitive judoka and Kobukan wartime uchideshi, Aikikai Hombu shihan and Aikikai shidoin, joined Yoseikan Aikido Katori Shinto-ryu expert est. Manseikan Aikido Shinto priest Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido Aritoshi Murashige Zenzaburo Akazawa Tadashi Abe Masatake Fujita 1895-1964 1919-2007 1926-1984 1937- Judoka who later taught in Kobukan uchideshi active Wartime uchideshi in Aikikai shihan and Burma and Belgium in Omoto’s Budo Sen’yokai Iwama to France in 1952 General Affairs Director Takuma Hisa Morihiro Saito Katsuaki Asai Seiichi Sugano 1895-1979 1928-2002 1942- 1939-2010 Osaka Asahi News dojo- Postwar Iwama student Aikikai shidoin to Germany Aikikai uchideshi to Australia 1965, NOTES cho and later Daito-ryu and guardian of Aiki Shrine in 1965 then to Belgium and New York • This chart presents the major disciples of Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba during his Kenji Tomita Hirokazu Kobayashi Yasuo Kobayashi Shuji Maruyama teaching career which spanned the period 1897-1977 1929-1998 1936- 1940- of 1920 to 1969. Osaka Police Chief and Osaka dojo-cho and dis- Postwar Aikikai uchideshi, Aikikai uchideshi to USA • Ueshiba first began teaching Daito-ryu aiki- patron-student of Founder seminator of aikido in Europe est. Kobayashi Dojos 1966, est. Aikido Kokikai jujutsu in Ayabe in 1920, and then relocated to Tokyo in 1927. His art was known as “Aiki Bansen Tanaka Sadateru Arikawa Andre Nocquet Mitsunari Kanai Budo” during the 1930s before the creation 1912-1988 1930-2003 1913-1999 1939-2004 of modern aikido in postwar Iwama. Osaka prewar student, Senior Aikikai shihan and French judoka trained at Postwar uchideshi to operated Aikikai dojo • The Founder made regular trips to the Kan- martial arts scholar Aikikai 1955-1957 Boston, USA 1966 sai area including Osaka, his native Tanabe and Shingu in Wakayama Prefecture. Shigenobu Okumura Hiroshi Isoyama Akira Tohei Nobuyuki Watanabe • Individuals are listed approximately in 1922-2008 1937- 1929-1999 1930- Began study in Manchuria, Postwar Iwama deshi and Air Postwar Aikikai uchideshi, chronological order according to the decade Aikikai shihan to Chicago, Aikikai senior shihan Self-Defense Force instructor USA in 1972 presently Hombu shihan of their first instruction from the Founder. • Those names denoted with an asterisk (*) Koichi Tohei Hiroshi Tada Yoshimitsu Yamada Yutaka Kurita first started training at an earlier date before 1920-2011 1929- 1938- their main study under the Founder. 1940- Aikikai Shihan Bucho, later Senior Aikikai shihan to Italy Postwar Aikikai uchideshi Postwar Aikikai uchideshi • Some of the persons listed were included est. Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido from 1964-1971 to New York in 1964 to Mexico in 1979 primarily due to their prominent roles in the dissemination of aikido rather than duration Saburo Wakuta Seijuro Masuda of training under the Founder. Responsibility 1903-1989 1936- for this selection rests entirely with me. Famous sumo wrestler Aikikai shidoin, presently • Feedback concerning any errors or omis- known as “Tenryu” Aikikai Hombu shihan sions to this chart are welcome. The chart should be construed as an ongoing project. Minoru Hirai Kazuo Chiba 1903-1998 1940- Stanley Pranin Kobukan General Affairs Postwar uchideshi to UK Editor, Aiki News/Aikido Journal Director, est. Korindo Aikido 1965, now in San Diego, February 2001 www.aikidojournal.com Copyright © 2011 by Aikido Journal .