aikido
Aikido is a modern martial art inspired from Japan old martial traditions: bare hands fighting and traditional weapons fighting. During the first half of the twentieth century, Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, devise a martial discipline at first exclusive to a few then developed and spread to the rest of the world by Morihei’s son, Kisshomaru. Starting from the 1950’s indeed, several students of the founder and his son move overseas and start to teach Aikido. …
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iaido
For almost twelve hundred years, Japan was ruled by a feudal system which was brought to an end by its own ruler. In less than a decade, the clans of Satsuma, Chōshū and Tosa together defeated the government of the Tokugawa to restore the rule of the Emperor. Following the slogan of sonno joi …
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Musō Shinden Ryū Iai-dō in detail