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  • Even though Takeda Sokaku was said to be rather reclusive and even though eh was eventually vastly surpassed by his student Ueshiba Morihei.

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    Interview with Tokimune Takeda, Part 1 by Stanley Pranin

    The following text is a compilation of several interviews conducted with Tokimune Takeda between 1985 and 1987 in Abashiri, Hokkaido and Tokyo. The third son and successor of Sokaku Takeda, Tokimune Takeda began training in the martial arts under his father in 1925. He completed the Hokkaido Police Officer Training Course in 1946, and in 1947, a police course in stick handling techniques. While a member of the police force, Tokimune received several awards for outstanding service in arresting criminals. He joined the Yamada Fishery Co., Ltd., in December 1951 and worked there until his retirement in 1976. Tokimune established the Daitokan dojo in Abashiri, Hokkaido in 1953, and organized the Daito-ryu techniques, incorporating into them elements of Ono-ha Itto-ryu to create his own Daito-ryu aikibudo. He received the Cultural Social Education Award from Abashiri City on November 3, 1987. Read the second part of the article here.

    Now that the role of Daito-ryu in the development of aikido is better understood I think it likely that more aikido people will become interested in the history of the art. I would like to begin by asking you some questions about your father, Sokaku Takeda. Can it be said that he created th

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    Newspaper Articles about Takeda Sokaku Part 1: The Recluse Bokuden of Our Times (1930)

    The first article was written by Osaka Yoichi (尾坂與市), a reporter for the Tokyo Asahi Newspaper (Tokyo Asahi Shinbun, 東京朝日新聞), which we know today as the daily newspaper Asahi Shinbun (朝日新聞). Published during the Taisho era, it was among the top five newspapers in Tokyo. It seems that what prompted the journalist to want to know more about Daito-ryu was the publication in 1929 of an even earlier article written for a nonfiction magazine by Admiral Takeshita Isamu entitled “The Heroic Story of Takeda Sokaku” (武田惣角武勇伝), but the article in question seems to either have been lost, or perhaps never existed. Still, Yoichi decided to travel to Hokkaido in July 1930 in the aim of interviewing Takeda Sokaku, who was teaching in the north of the island at the time. His article was published on August 17, 1930. The following text is a revised translation of the text that appeared in Aikido Journal issue 68 (August 1985), and supplemented with notes.

    The Recluse Bokuden of Our Times

    Blindingly Fast Moves of Daito-ryu Aiki

    Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu is a very ancient martial arts school transmitted in secret within the Aizu clan. It was not until the Meiji era that the school's rightful heir, Master Tak

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