Japanese aikidoka (1883-1969)
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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.
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 contro…
Sourced, dated quotes from Morihei Ueshiba
The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood. It is not a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek to compete and better one another are making a terrible mistake.
True Budo is practiced not only to destroy an enemy, it must also make him, or his own will, gladly lose his spirit (seishin) to oppose you. (p. 26)
Atemi accounts for 99% of Aikido.
I felt the universe suddenly quake, and that a golden spirit sprang up from the ground, veiled my body, and changed my body into a golden one.
Shihonage is the foundation of Aikido. All you ever need to master is shihonage.
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