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| AIKIBUDO:
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| Born of Daito Ryu, Sister
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Daito
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In
reading over this entire web site, you will learn that our curriculum
is deeply rooted arts that evolved from or descended from Daito
Ryu.
As most are aware, Aikido was developed by Morihei Ueshiba, and
is based mainly on his experience in Daito Ryu. Gozo Shioda, the
Yoshinkan founder learned Daito Ryu from Ueshiba and received his
first instructor certification in Daito Ryu. Shogo Kuniba learned
Daito Ryu from Shioda Sensei.
Yoshida
Kotaro attained Kyoju Dairi in Daito Ryu directly from Takeda Sokaku.
Kotaro taught Richard Kim, who in turn taught Patrick McCarthy.
Hakko
Ryu Jujutsu was created by Okuyama Ryuho after studying Daito Ryu
with Takeda Sokaku.
Arts, technqiues, principles and theories were passed along to
Jim Mc Coy Sensei from each of these lineages. |
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following text was taken from wikipedia |
| Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu, originally called
Daito-ryu jujutsu, is a Japanese martial art that first became widely
known in the early 20th century under the headmastership of Sokaku
Takeda (Takeda Sokaku). Takeda had extensive training in several martial
arts (including Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryu and sumo) and referred
to the style he taught as Daito-ryu. Although the ryu's traditions
claim to extend back centuries in Japanese history there are no known
extant records regarding the ryu before Sokaku Takeda. Whether he
is regarded as the restorer or founder of the art, the known history
of Daito-ryu begins with Sokaku Takeda. Perhaps the most famous student
of Sokaku Takeda was Morihei Ueshiba (Ueshiba Morihei), founder of
aikido. Sokaku Takeda's third son, Tokimune Takeda, became the headmaster
of the art following the death of Sokaku Takeda in 1943. Tokimune
Takeda taught what he called Daito Ryu Aikibudo, an art that included
the sword techniques of the Ono-ha Itto-ryu along with the traditional
techniques of Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu. It was also under Tokimune Takeda's
headmastership that modern dan rankings were first created and awarded
to students. Tokimune Takeda died in 1993 leaving no official successor,
but a few of his high ranking students such as Katsuyuki Kondo and
Shigemitsu Kato now head their own Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu organizations. |
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the aiki-jujutsu organizations that can verify their teaching lineage
directly to Sokaku Takeda can be traced back to the teachings of one
of four teachers under the first headmaster; Tokimune Takeda (the
second headmaster), Yoshiyuki Sagawa (an outstanding early student
of Sokaku's), Takuma Hisa (the highest ranking student of Sokaku)
and Kodo Horikawa (a talented innovator in the art). |
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are two main groups which have sought to maintain the teachings of
the second verifiable headmaster of Daito-ryu, Tokimune Takeda. The
first is represented by Katsuyuki Kondo who began his training under
Tsunejiro Hosono, then continued with Kotaro Yoshida for a time before
being introduced to Sokaku's son. On the basis of the high level teaching
licenses he was granted by Tokimune his followers represent his school
as the Daito-ryu "mainline" and he has much support in the
martial arts community for this. Kondo has done much to increase the
visibility of the art by hosting seminars both in Tokyo and abroad,
especially the United States.[1] The
other main group of students who represent the teachings of Tokimune
are represented by long time students and teachers from Tokimune's
original Daitokan headquarters in Hokkaido, Shigemitsu Kato and
Gunpachi Arisawa. Their organization is called the Nihon Daito-ryu
Aikibudo Daitokai. They maintain a smaller organization in Hokkaido
with strong connections to practitioners in Europe, especially Italy. |
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second major group is represented by students of the Takuma Hisa (1896-1980).
His students banded together and founded the Takumakai[3]. Interestingly,
they have a wealth of materials in the form of film, and still photographs,
taken at the Asahi Newspaper dojo, recording the Daito-ryu techniques
taught to them, first by Morihei Ueshiba and then later by Takeda
Sokaku directly. One of their major training manuals called the Soden
features techniques taught to them by both teachers.
The Takumakai represents the second largest organization and made
a move in the 1980s to impliment the kata for teaching the fundamentals
of the art established Tokimune Takeda spearheaded by Shogen Okayabayshi,
who was sent by the elderly Hisa to train under the headmaster.
This move upset some preservers of Hisa's original teaching method
leading to the formation of a new organization called the Daibukan,
founded by a long term student of Hisa, Kenkichi Ohgami.[4] Later,
in order to implement greater changes to the curriculum Okabayashi
himself chose to separate from the Takumakai and formed the Hakuho-ryu. |
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Kodokai was founded by students of Kodo Horikawa (1894-1980), whose
distinctive interpretation of 'aiki' movements can be seen in the
movements of his students. The Kodokai is currently headed in Hokkaido
by Yusuke Inoue. There are two major teachers who branched off from
the Kodokai to establish their own traditions the first was Seigo
Okamoto who founded the Daito-ryu Roppokai, whose own interpretation
of aiki and minimal movement throws have proved very popular and has
a great following abroad, especially in USA and Europe.[6] The other
much smaller group was that of Katsumi Yonezawa (1937-1999) who founded
his own organization, the Bukuyokan, and awarded a considerable number
of licenses to students in America while still a senior teacher at
the Kodokai. The Bokuyokan is currently run by his son Hiromitsu Yonezawa
from Hokkaido with a small following in the U.S. |
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last major group consists of students of Yukiyoshi Sagawa Yukiyoshi(1902-1998)
who was once considered to be the successor to Sokaku Takeda should
Tokimune be unable to survive the war. Sagawa, an extremely conservative
teacher, ran only a single dojo and taught a relatively small number
of students. He began studying Daito-ryu under Sokaku Takeda in 1914
after earlier learning from his father who was also a student of Sokaku.
Kimura
Tatsuo, a mathematics professor at Tsukuba University and a senior
student of Sagawa, runs a small aikijujutsu study group there. He
has also written two books about his training under the Sagawa;
Transparent Power and Discovering Aiki. |
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are a number of martial arts in addition to aikido which appear or
claim to descend from the art of Daito-ryu or the teachings of Takeda
Sokaku. Among them is the Korean martial art of hapkido founded by
Choi Yong Sul, who made unverified claims to have trained under Takeda
Sokaku, Hakko Ryu founded by Okuyama Yoshiharu who trained under Takeda,
Nippon Shorinji Kempo founded by Nakano Michiomi (So Doshin) who is
known to have trained under Okuyama. Several other modern schools
of aikijutsu such as Yamate-Ryu, Takeda-Ryu also claim a connection
to Takeda. The
term aiki-jujutsu (variations aikijujutsu and aikijutsu) in a number
of cases have been adopted by newly synthesized martial arts and
refer to aikido techniques performed in a harder manner. See hard
and soft (martial arts). Daito Ryu Aikijujutsu is not the sole art
that refers to Aikijujutsu (or it's derivatives). Daito Ryu was
originally called Daito Ryu Jujutsu, and was later changed to Aikijujutsu
by Sokaku Takeda. |
| Classification
of Techniques: |
*
Shoden (Hiden Mokuroku) -118 techniques.
* Aiki-no-jutsu - 53 Techniques.
* Hiden okgui - 38 Techniques.
* Goshinyo-no-te - 84 Techniques. Officially
the Daito-ryu system is said to be comprised of thousands of techniques,
divided into ura and omote (literally 'front and 'back') versions,
but many of these could be seen as variations upon the core techniques.
In addition Sokaku and Tokimune awarded scrolls denoting certain
portions of the curriculum such as techniques utilizing the long
and short short sword.
To
the list above the Takumakai adds:
* Daito-ryu Aiki Nito-ryu Hiden
* Kaishakusoudennokoto 477
* Kaidennokoto 88 kajo
and
utilizes the photographic document of techniques taught at the Asahi
Newspaper Dojo by Morihei Ueshiba and Sokaku Takeda that was compiled
into a series of books called the Soden.
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