Iwama dojo was built by what martial artist who is often referred to as the founder, Kaiso, or Great Teacher?
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Iwama dojo Iwama dojo is a dojo built by the founder of aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, who lived there from 1942 until his death in 1969. It is located in the former town of Iwama and became an important historical location for the development of aikido and "a Mecca to the aikido community." This dojo is also where Morihiro Saito, one of the founder's closest students, learned and taught aikido from 1946 until 2002 developing what is often referred to as the Iwama Style.
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Morihei Ueshiba Morihei Ueshiba (植芝 盛平 , Ueshiba Morihei , December 14, 1883 – April 26, 1969) was a martial artist and founder of the Japanese martial art of Aikido. He is often referred to as "the founder" "Kaiso" (開祖 ) or "Ōsensei" (大先生/翁先生 ) , "Great Teacher".
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Iemoto Iemoto (Japanese: 家元 ) (lit. "family foundation") is a Japanese term used to refer to the founder or current Grand Master of a certain school of traditional Japanese art. It is used synonymously with the word sōke (宗家 ) when it refers to the family or house that the iemoto is head of and represents.
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Ma Gui (martial artist) Ma Gui (also known as Ma Shiqing) () (1847–1941 or 1851–1941) was an accomplished master of the internal Chinese martial art of Baguazhang, and was the first disciple of Yin Fu, who in turn was the first disciple of Baguazhang's founder Dong Haichuan. Various lines of Baguazhang claiming lineage to Ma Gui (but comprising different material) are still actively taught in China as well as in Japan, North America, and Europe.
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Kaisando A kaisandō (開山堂 , kaisan-dō ) , also termed the Founder's Hall, is a temple structure in a Japanese Buddhist monastery complex or other temple where an image (or images) of the founding abbot and other significant teachers and Buddha ancestors are kept, along with a memorial slab (J. ihai). Sometimes also referred to as the Patriarch Hall (J. "soshido") or Reflection Hall (J. "Eishitsu"), this building holds memorial services yearly on the anniversary of the death of the founding abbot.
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Tetsuzan Kuroda Tetsuzan Kuroda (born 1950 in Japan) is a martial artist. He was a featured participant in the Aiki Expo (2003), and is regarded as one of Japan's greatest swordsmen.
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Heki Danjō Masatsugu Heki Danjō Masatsugu (日置弾正政次 , 1443 in Yamato, Japan – 1502) was a warrior and the creator of the school of basic archery skills for footsoldiers. Heki Danjō's teaching started one of the prominent schools of "kyūdō", which is named "Heki-ryū" after him. Several "Heki-ryū" branches are taught actively even today.
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Kenji Shimizu Kenji Shimizu (清水 健二 , Shimizu Kenji ) , b. 1940, is an aikido teacher and founder of the aikido style Tendo-ryu Aikido (天道流).
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Kashima Shrine Kashima Shrine (鹿島神宮 "Kashima Jingū") is a shrine dedicated to the Shinto Kami Takemikazuchi-no-Ōkami (武甕槌大神), one of the patron deities of martial arts. Various dojo (道場　"Dōjō") of kenjutsu (剣術) and kendo (剣道 "Kendō") sometimes display a Kakejiku (掛軸) hanging scroll emblazoned with Takemikazuchi-no-Ōkami. The shrine is located in Kashima, Ibaraki and is the home of Kashima Shintō-ryū (鹿島新当流). During the New Year period, from the first to the third of January, Kashima Shrine is visited by over 600,000 people from all over Japan. It is the second most visited shrine in Ibaraki prefecture (茨城県 "Ibaraki-ken") for new year pilgrims.
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Kanken Tōyama Kanken Tōyama (遠山寛賢 Tōyama Kanken, 24 September 1888 – 24 November 1966) was a Japanese schoolteacher and karate master, who developed the foundation for the Shūdōkan karate style.
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Yoseikan budō Yoseikan budō (養正館武道 ) may be classified as a "sōgō budō" form (総合武道 , "composite" or "comprehensive" martial art), but is used here to indicate a martial art into which various martial ways have been integrated. It is probably most widely known for its connection to a pre-war style of "aikido"; however, it has important connections to judo, karate, western boxing, savate and a traditional form of Japanese armed combat known as Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū.
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Lanxi Daolong Lanxi Daolong (;Japanese: Rankei Dōryū ) (c. 1213-1278), born in Sichuan Province, China in 1213 A.D. (Southern Song Dynasty), was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, idealist philosopher, and is the founder of the Kenchō-ji sect, which is a branch of the Rinzai school. He entered temple life at the age of thirteen. Due to the Mongol Conquest of the Song Dynasty in China in 1246, also driven by the new trend that Zen monks of the Southern Song Dynasty increasingly tended to voluntarily go to Japan to preach Zen Buddhism, plus the influences of his teachers and friends, he sailed to Japan to preach Zen Buddhism, and later moved to Kamakura, where he took charge of Kenchō-ji (建長寺). after having accepted the invitation of Hōjō Tokiyori (北条時頼) in 1253. His calligraphy was famous in Japan, especially "Rule of Zen" (法语规则). Daolong died in Kenchō-ji, and was given the Posthumous Name as Dajue Zen Master (大覚禅師, Daikaku Zenji in Japanese) by Emperor Go-Uda (後宇多天皇). Throughout his lifetime, he made great contributions to promote Sino-Japanese cultural interactions.
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International Shotokan Karate Federation The International Shotokan Karate Federation (ISKF) is one of the largest shotokan karate organization in North and South America. In 1977, in an effort to spread the study of shotokan throughout the world, high-ranking members from the Japan Karate Association (JKA) founded the ISKF. In 2007, the ISKF split off from the JKA to become an independent organization. Members of the ISKF follow the teachings of shotokan's founder, Gichin Funakoshi. Though the ISKF is based mainly in the United States, affiliated dojos can be found in over forty countries worldwide. Hiroyoshi Okazaki is the chairman and chief instructor of the ISKF.
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Jon Mamoru Takagi Jon Mamoru Takagi (高木 ) (July 2, 1942 – February 5, 1984) was a pioneer of aikido in the United States. He founded Arizona Aikikai, the first aikido dojo in Arizona, and one of the earliest martial arts schools in the western United States. A second-generation American of Japanese descent born in Hawaii, Takagi's career was unexpectedly cut short when he was killed by a drunk driver.
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Kage-ryū (Aizu) Kage-ryū (陰流 ) is a traditional school ("koryū") of swordsmanship ("kenjutsu") founded by Aizu Hyūga-no-Kami Iko (c.1452–1538) in c.1490. This school is also sometimes called Aizu Kage-ryū after the name of its founder. The founder was also known as Aizu Ikōsai Hisatada, and his surname is sometimes written as "Aisu" instead of "Aizu."
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Geo Omori Geo Omori (died 1938) was a Japanese-born Brazilian martial artist, and one of the creators of judo-based martial arts in Brazil.
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Meitoku Yagi Meitoku Yagi (八木明徳 "Yagi Meitoku", born March 6, 1912 in Naha, Okinawa - died February 7, 2003) was a karate master and teacher. He learned Goju-ryu from its legendary founder Chojun Miyagi. On April 29, 1986, Emperor Hirohito named Yagi a Living National Treasure (ningen kokuho) for his contributions to the martial arts.
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Kisaburo Osawa Kisaburo Osawa (Japanese: 大澤喜三郎 , Hepburn: Ōsawa Kisaburō , 1910 – May 26, 1991) was an influential aikido teacher who taught for many years at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo and was a close advisor to Kisshomaru Ueshiba.
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Hasegawa Eishin-ryū Hasegawa Eishin-ryū (長谷川英信流 ) is a iaijutsu koryū founded by Hasegawa Chikaranosuke Eishin (or Hidenobu)(長谷川主税助英信) as a continuation of the teachings he received in Shinmei Musō-ryū. After the death of the eleventh headmaster, Ōguro Motoemon Kiyokatsu, the school split into two branches or "ha". One branch, the "Shimomura-ha" (下村派), was renamed by its fourteenth headmaster Hosokawa Yoshimasa to Musō Shinden Eishin-ryū (無雙神傳英信流). After studying under Hosokawa, Nakayama Hakudō created his own school which he called Musō Shinden-ryū (夢想神伝流) in 1932. The other branch, the "Tanimura-ha" (谷村派), was renamed Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū during the Taishō era (1912-1926), by its seventeenth headmaster, Ōe Masamichi, who incorporated the "Shimomura-ha" techniques and rationalized the curriculum.
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Genseiryū Karate-do International Federation The Genseiryū Karate-do International Federation (GKIF) (国際玄制流空手道連盟), Butokukai Branch (武徳会支部) was established in 1959 by Kunihiko Tosa and junior co-worker Yohimitsu Furuya who both were part of the first dojo ever established by Seiken Shukumine at the Tachikawa Self Defense Forces.
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Kaita Murayama Kaita Murayama (村山 槐多 , Murayama Kaita , September 15, 1896 – February 20, 1919) was a Japanese author and artist. One of his self-portraits appears in the Mie Prefectural Art Museum in Tsu Mie Prefecture, Japan (not pictured here). He trained at the Fine Arts Academy in Tokyo and was influenced by Western art styles. His work is described as being muscular and robust.
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Seikichi Odo Seikichi Odo (July 26, 1926 – March 24, 2002), whose name means "world walker" in Japanese, was born in Okinawa. He combined "kobudō" and karate techniques to found the Ryūkyū Hon Kenpo Kobujutsu Federation.