# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hitohiro-saito
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:06:33.039Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hitohiro-saito"
name: "Hitohiro Saito"
slug: "hitohiro-saito"
description: "Hitohiro Saito is an aikido instructor and founding headmaster of Iwama Shin-Shin Aiki Shuren-kai. Hitohiro is the son of Morihiro Saito. At age seven, he started to learn aikido from Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido, who cared for him as a grandson.. After Ueshiba died in 1969, he continued his practice with his father. The younger Saito became an official instructor of the Iwama dojo in 1986 and remained so until 2004 when he separated from the Aikikai organization and formed his own group. Since 2009 he is also identified as Hitohira (仁平) Saito."
tagline: "Japanese aikidoka"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SAITO_Hitohiro_Sensei.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1957-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.37
  momentum:             4.999999999999998
  historical:           6.742549333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BD%8B%E8%97%A4%E4%BB%81%E5%BC%98"
    title: "齋藤仁弘"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitohiro_Sait%C5%8D"
    title: "Hitohiro Saitō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitohiro_Saito"
    title: "Hitohiro Saito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitohiro_Saito"
    title: "Hitohiro Saito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitohiro_Sait%C5%8D"
    title: "Hitohiro Saitō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitohiro_Sait%C5%8D"
    title: "Hitohiro Saitō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitohiro_Saito"
    title: "Hitohiro Saito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1354681"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump