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O-Sensei Morihei Ueshiba - History in Brief - 1
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O-Sensei Morihei Ueshiba |
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Morihei Ueshiba, referred to as O-Sensei (great teacher)
or the founder by Aikido practitioners, was born on December
14, 1883 in Tanabe in present-day Wakayama prefecture. At
the age of seventeen he had his first formal training in
Tenjin Shinyo-ryu jujutsu. He joined the army in 1903. His
affinity for the martial arts was particularly evident in
his training; he excelled in bayonet practice. In the period
during his military service, 1903-1906, O-Sensei trained in
a Yagyu Ryu school in Osaka, possibly Yagyu Shingan Ryu. In
the period after 1906, he trained Judo for a short time.
In 1915, O-Sensei met Sokaku Takeda, of Daito-ryu jujutsu
for the first time. He soon became one of Takeda’s best
students. The techniques of Takeda’s Daito-ryu became the
foundation of O-Sensei’s creation, what we now know as
Aikido. The name most often used for this martial art during
the pre-war years was Aiki Budo.
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