Morihei Ueshiba - Legacy

Legacy

In an interview Shoji Nishio reported : "At that time, a former Karate sensei of the Butokukai named Toyosaku Sodeyama who was running Konishi Sensei’s dojo and also teaching there came up to me and said: “I met someone who is like a ‘phantom’. I couldn’t strike him even once.” I was amazed that there was someone that even Sodeyama Sensei couldn’t strike. It was O-Sensei."

To this day, Ōmoto-kyō priests oversee a ceremony in Ueshiba's honor every April 29 at the Aiki Shrine in Iwama.

Over the years, Ueshiba trained a large number of students, many of whom have grown into great teachers in their own right. Some of them were uchideshi, or live-in students. There are roughly four generations of students. A partial list follows:

First (pre-war) generation
(c.1921–c.1935)		 Second (war) generation
(c.1936–c.1945)		 Third (post-war) generation
(c.1946–c.1955)		 Fourth (and last) generation
(c.1956–c.1969)
  • Zenzaburo Akazawa (born 1920) since 1933
  • Masahiro Hashimoto (born 1910) since 1931
  • Takuma Hisa (1895–1980) since 1934
  • Yasuhiro Konishi (1893–1983)
  • Noriaki Inoue (1902–1994) since c.1921, nephew of Morihei Ueshiba
  • Ikkusai Iwata (born 1909) since 1930, 9th dan Aikikai
  • Hisao Kamada (1911–1986) since 1929
  • Minoru Mochizuki (1907–2003) since 1930, 10th dan (received from the International Martial Arts Federation)
  • Aritoshi Murashige (1895–1964) since 1931
  • Gozo Shioda (1915–1994) since 1932, founder of the Yoshinkan Aikido
  • Rinjiro Shirata (1912–1993) since 1933, 9th dan
  • Yoshio Sugino (1904–1998) since 1934, 10th dan IMAF, 10th dan Katori Shinto-ryu
  • Isamu Takeshita (1869–1949) since c.1925
  • Kenji Tomiki (1900–1979) since 1926, was the first 8th dan awarded in aikido in 1942.
  • Shigemi Yonekawa (1910–2005) since 1933
  • Tsutomu Yukawa (1911–1942) since 1931
  • Tadashi Abe (1926–1984) since 1942, 6th dan
  • Minoru Hirai (1903–1998) since 1939, founder of the Korindo style.
  • Kisaburo Osawa (1911–1991) since 1941, 9th dan
  • Kanshū Sunadomari (1923–2010) since 1942, 9th dan
  • Bansen Tanaka (1912–1988) since 1936, 9th dan
  • Saburo Tenryū (1903–1989) since 1939, he was a famous sumo wrestler
  • Koichi Tohei (1920–2011) since 1939, only 10th dan awarded by Ueshiba and approved by Aikikai
  • Michio Hikitsuchi (1923–2004) since 1937, 10th dan (verbally awarded by Ueshiba), opened Shingu's Kumano Juku in 1951 (when he was 7th dan)
  • Yamada Senta (1924–2010) live-in student in Wakayama & toured Japan with Ueshiba. Student of Jigoro Kano, 6th dan Aiki & Judo, later trained with Kenji Tomiki
  • Seiseki Abe (1915–2011) since 1952, 10th dan
  • Sadateru Arikawa (1930–2003) since 1947, 9th dan
  • Katsuaki Asai (born 1942) since 1955, 8th dan
  • Hiroshi Kato (born 1935) since 1954, 8th dan
  • Yasuo Kobayashi (born 1936) since 1954, 8th dan
  • Reishin Kawai (1931–2010) since 1952, 8th dan
  • Yoshio Kuroiwa (1932–2010) since 1954, 6th dan
  • Mutsuro Nakazono (1918–1994) 7th dan
  • Shoji Nishio (1927–2005) since 1951, 8th dan
  • André Nocquet (1914–1999) since 1955, 8th dan, the first European uchideshi
  • Masamichi Noro (born 1935) since 1955, 6th dan, founder of Kinomichi
  • Morihiro Saito (1928–2002) since 1946, 9th dan
  • Hiroshi Isoyama (born 1937) since 1949, 8th dan
  • Mitsugi Saotome (born 1937) since 1955
  • Hiroshi Tada (born 1929) since 1950, 9th dan
  • Nobuyoshi Tamura (1933–2010) since 1953, 8th dan
  • Seigo Yamaguchi (1924–1996) since 1951, 9th dan
  • Nobuyuki Watanabe (born 1930) since 1958, 8th dan
  • Kazuo Chiba (born 1940) since 1958, 8th dan
  • Yasunari Kitaura (born 1937) since 1959, 8th dan, founder of Asociación Cultural de Aikido en España (ACAE)
  • Terry Dobson (1938–1992) since 1960, 5th dan
  • Seishiro Endo (born 1942) since 1964, 8th dan
  • Robert Frager (born 1940) since 1964, 7th dan
  • Gaku Homma (born 1950) was the last uchideshi Ueshiba trained before he died.
  • Norihiko Ichihashi (1940–2001) since 1960, 8th dan
  • Shizuo Imaizumi (born 1938) since 1959, 7th dan
  • Mitsunari Kanai (1939–2004) since 1959, 8th dan
  • Yutaka Kurita (born 1940) since 1959, 7th dan founder
  • Koretoshi Maruyama (born 1936) since 1954, founder Aikido Yuishinkai International
  • Shuji Maruyama (born 1940) since 1959, 6th dan, founder of Kokikai
  • Seijuro Masuda (born 1936) since 1962, 8th dan
  • Robert Nadeau (born 1937) since 1962, 7th dan
  • Kenji Shimizu (born 1940) since 1963, 8th dan
  • Roy Suenaka (born 1940) since 1961, 8th dan, founder Wadokai Aikido.
  • Seiichi Sugano (1939–2010) since 1959, 8th dan
  • Morito Suganuma (born 1942) since 1964, 8th dan
  • Akira Tohei (1929–1999) since 1956, 8th dan
  • Takeji Tomita (born 1942) since 1961, 7th dan
  • Yoshimitsu Yamada (born 1938) since 1956, 8th dan
  • Hirokazu Kobayashi (1929–1998) Kobayashi aikido
  • Motohiro Fukakusa since 1960, 8th dan
  • Alan Ruddock (1944–2012) since 1966
  • Henry Kono since 1964

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