# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morihei-ueshiba
# Generated: 2026-09-02T07:59:39.482Z

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description: "He turned combat into harmony. Morihei Ueshiba built aikido from the ground up — a martial art that redirects force instead of meeting it head-on, born from war training, spiritual crisis, and a vision of a golden body rising from the earth."
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birthDate: "1883-12-14"
deathDate: "1969-04-26"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  The son of a Tanabe landowner, Ueshiba cycled through martial arts as a young man and fought in the Russo-Japanese War. Discharged in 1907, he led a pioneer settlement in Hokkaido, where he trained under Takeda Sōkaku in Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu. In 1919 he joined the Ōmoto-kyō Shinto sect in Ayabe, opened his first dojo, and in 1924 was captured with the sect's leader on an ill-fated expedition to Mongolia. The next year brought the rupture: a spiritual experience in which he claimed a golden spirit veiled his body and transformed it, after which his technique softened and emphasized the control of ki. He moved to Tokyo in 1926 and established what became the Aikikai Hombu Dojo, teaching across Japan and in military academies. After World War II he retired to Iwama, spending his last decades spreading aikido until liver cancer killed him in 1969. His students carried it worldwide.