Uchi Deshis
1921 - 1931
Kisshomaru UESHIBA
Noriaki INOUE (1921)
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Isamu TAKESHITA (1925)
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Kenji TOMIKI (1926)
Hisao KAMADA (1929)
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Minoru MOCHIZUKI (1930)
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Minoru MOCHIZUKI (1930)
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Ikkusai IWATA (1930)
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Aritoshi MURASHIGE (1931)
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1931 - 1942
Kaoru FUNAHASHI
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Tsutomu YUKAWA
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Kiyoshi NAKAKURA
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Gozo SHIODA
(1932)
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Shigemi YONEKAWA (1932)
Yoshio SUGINO (1932)
Rinjiro SHIRATA
(1933)
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Takako KUNIGOSHI
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Zenzaburo AKAZAWA
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Takuma HISA
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BANSEN TANAKA (1936)
Shigenobu OKUMURA (1938)
Koichi TOHEI
(1939)
Minoru HIRAI
(1939)
Kisaburo OSAWA
Saburo WAKUTA
TENRYU
1942 - 1944
Kanshu SUNADOMARI
Tadashi ABE
Kenshiro ABBE
Morihiro SAITO
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Hirokazu KOBAYASHI
Sadateru ARIKAWA
Hiroshi ISOYAMA
Hiroshi TADA
Seigo YAMAGUCHI
Michio HIKITSUCHI
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Shoji NISHIO
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Mutsuro NAKAZONO
Seiseki ABE
Nobuyoshi TAMURA
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Reishin KAWAI
Masando SASAKI
Hiroshi KATO
Yoshio KUROIWA
(1954)
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1954 - 1969
André NOQUET (1955)
Mitsugi SAOTOME (1955)
Masamichi NORO (1955)
Itsuo TSUDA (1955)
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Yoshimitsu YAMADA (1955)
Seiichi SUGANO (1957)
Kazuo CHIBA (1958)
Terry DOBSON (1960)
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Robert NADEAU (1962)
Henry KONO (1964)
“O Sensei, how come we are not doing what you are doing?” He just smiled and replied “I understand Yin and Yang, you don’t”. Like if it was nothing, he just gave me the secret of Aikido.
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Seishiro ENDO (1964)
Robert FRAGER (1964)
Fukiko SUNADOMARI
Virginia MAYHEW
Virginia Mayhew was the director of New York Aikikai in 1963-64. She often took side jobs working as a belly dancer at a Greek night club in order to pay the rent. Once Yoshimitsu Yamada Sensei arrived in New York from Tokyo she went back to Japan to study with O-Sensei full time.
