- List of aikidoka
This is a list of famous and well-known
aikido practitioners (aikidōka) sorted by area ofprimary residence .For a list of direct students of
Morihei Ueshiba please see his legacy.Use of the term
It is worth noting that the term aikidōka (合気道家) is rarely heard among native speakers of Japanese,in spite of its common use as a
loanword in other countries. In theJapanese language ,the suffix nihongo|ka|linktext|家|-ka, when added to the name of certain activities, indicates an expert orprofessional in that field. Consequently, the meaning of the term in the ears of Japanese, especially when thefield is martial arts, takes on aconnotation of one who is exceptionally accomplished and highly respected.Further, because of the connotation of respect, this is a term one would never use with regard to oneself,even if deserved. There is no other word in Japanese carrying the same meaning that aikidōka hasacquired as a loanword, namely that of a person practicing the art, regardless of their degree of accomplishment.Japan
The Ueshiba family
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Morihei Ueshiba - founder of Aikido, often referred to as Ōsensei.
*Kisshomaru Ueshiba
*Moriteru Ueshiba Other Japanese aikidoka
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Seiseki Abe
*Zenzaburo Akazawa
*Sadateru Arikawa
*Seishiro Endo
*Michio Hikitsuchi
*Takuma Hisa
*Kazuo Igarashi
*Masatomi Ikeda
*Noriaki (Yoichiro) Inoue
*Hiroshi Isoyama
*Hiroshi Kato
*Hirokazu Kobayashi
*Yasuo Kobayashi
*Koretoshi Maruyama
*Shuji Maruyama
*Seijuro Masuda
*Minoru Mochizuki
*Tetsuro Nariyama
*Shoji Nishio
*Hideo Ohba
*Kisaburo Osawa
*Hitohiro Saito
*Morihiro Saito
*Koichi Shibata
*Fumiaki Shishida
*Kenji Shimizu
*Gozo Shioda
*Morito Suganuma
*Kanshu Sunadomari
*Hiroshi Tada
*Isamu Takeshita
*Bansen Tanaka
*Koichi Tohei
*Kenji Tomiki
*Seigo Yamaguchi Australia
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Michiharu Mori
*Michael Williams
*Yoshiaki Unno Europe
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Kenshiro Abbe
*Tadashi Abe
*Katsuaki Asai
*Pierre Chassang
*Paolo Corallini
*John Cornish
*Tristão da Cunha
*Ulf Evenås
*Jan Hermansson
*Toshikazu Ichimura
*Loi Lee
*André Nocquet
*Masamichi Noro
*Tony Sargeant
*Stefan Stenudd
*Edwin Stratton
*Toshiro Suga
*Nobuyoshi Tamura
*Christian Tissier
*Takeji Tomita
*Ken Williams
*Velibor Vesovic
*Ljubomir Vracarevic North America
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Kazuo Chiba
*Frank Doran
*Terry Dobson
*Robert Frager
*Gaku Homma
*Shigemi "Eddie" Hagihara
*Hiroshi Ikeda
*Mitsunari Kanai
*Koichi Kashiwaya
*Harvey Konigsberg
*Takashi Kushida
*Thomas H. Makiyama
*Jack Mumpower
*Robert Nadeau
*Mutsuro Nakazono
*Mitsugi Saotome
*Steven Seagal
*Hideki Shiohira
*Danielle Smith
*John Stevens
*Seiichi Sugano
*Akira Tohei
*Fumio Toyoda
*Yoshimitsu Yamada
*Walther v.Krenner outh East Asia
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Manuel "Omar" Camar
*Chan Hok-seng
*Benjamin Galarpe
*Thamby Rajah
*Francis Ramasamy outh America
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Wagner Bull
*Reishin Kawai
*Ichitami Shikanai Literature
*Pranin, Stanley A, ed. Aikido masters: prewar students of Morihei Ueshiba. Tokyo: Aiki News. 1993. ISBN 4-900586-14-5 This volume contains 14 in-depth interviews with direct participants in the early days of Aikido [http://www.aikidojournal.com/catalog/productdetails.php?code=mas publisher]
* Stone, John and Meyer, Ron (eds.) "Aikido in America" North Atlantic Books 1995. ISBN 1883319277 Interviews limited to 13 aikidoists in the United States from 1990 to 1994; not meant to be comprehensive, Japanese teachers not covered. Editors were primarily interested in how Americans have responded to, changed, and expanded Aikido in the United States.References
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