Aikikai
Sign in to saveThe Aikikai is the original school of Aikido. It is centered on the Aikikai Foundation in Japan, and its figurehead is the Doshu (the family heir of the founder of Aikido). It is represented globally through the International Aikido Federation.
Key facts
- Martial art group.logo
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- Martial art group.imagesize
- 150px
- Martial art group.name
- Aikikai Foundation (公益財団法人合気会 Kōeki Zaidan Hōjin Aikikai)
- Martial art group.aka
- Aikikai; Aikikai Honbu
- Martial art group.date founded
- c.1948
- Martial art group.country
- Japan
- Martial art group.founder
- Morihei Ueshiba
- Martial art group.head
- Moriteru Ueshiba Dōshu
- Martial art group.arts
- Aikido
- Martial art group.ancestor schools
- Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu • Tenjin Shin'yō-ryū • Yagyū Shingan-ryū
- Martial art group.A few well known members
- Steven Seagal, Kisaburo Osawa, Seiseki Abe, Yoshimitsu Yamada, Mitsunari Kanai, Nobuyoshi Tamura, Isamu Takeshita, Christian Tissier, Seiichi Sugano
- Martial art group.website
- http://www.aikikai.or.jp
- Sport.name
- Aikido
- Sport.image
- Ueshiba Mitsuteru (Nippon Budokan, 2017).webm
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- 220px
- Sport.caption
- Mitsuteru Ueshiba at the 55th All Japan Aikido Demonstration held at the Nippon Budokan (May 2017)
- Sport.union
- International Aikido Federation
- Sport.country/region
- Worldwide
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Aikikai Foundation
- ''Dōshu''
- ''Hombu Dōjō''
- Aikikai school of Aikido
- International Aikido Federation
- Aikikai style of aikido
- References
- External links
The Aikikai is the original school of Aikido. It is centered on the Aikikai Foundation in Japan, and its figurehead is the Doshu (the family heir of the founder of Aikido). It is represented globally through the International Aikido Federation.
== Aikikai Foundation == The is the original aikido organization. It has been an incorporated entity in Japan since 1940 under the name , then re-registered under the name "Aikikai" after the ban on Aikido practice was lifted by the GHQ in 1948. It is headed by the doshu, the living successor of the founder of aikido.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aikikai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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