2023年1月18日

Aikido Pioneers: Kenneth Cottier, the British Man Who Taught Aikido to Hong Kong

Kenneth George Edward Cottier was born near Liverpool from a working class family on December 14th, 1933, whic […]

2022年4月4日

Aikido Pioneers: Virginia Mayhew, founder of the New York Aikikai

Many of us aikidoka are eager to read about the lives of the various pioneers of our art. There is no shortage […]

2022年1月17日

In this series, I try to bring to the attention of the Japanese public a number of foreign practitioners witho […]

2021年9月17日

In a previous issue of Hiden, I wrote about Frenchman André Nocquet Sensei, who was the first foreign uchi des […]

2020年6月15日

In the April 2020 issue of Hiden, I wrote about the life of André Nocquet, who was the first foreign uchi desh […]

2020年5月14日

I have known the name André Nocquet for almost as long as I have known about aikido. Indeed, the picture of hi […]

2020年3月16日

It can be argued that what differentiates Aikido from its ancestor, Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu, has less to do wit […]