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Dutch, Essay

Aikido zonder Vrede of Harmonie [Dutch Version]

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Omslag van ‘Budo Hiketsu Aiki no Jutsu’ (‘Geheime Methodes van Budo Aiki no Jutsu’)                Gepubliceerd in Meiji Jaar 33 (1900)
*This is a Dutch translation of the article "Aikido without Peace or Harmony – Dude, where did the love go?", courtesy of Ernesto Lemke of Seikokan Aikido.
Aikido staat vaak bekend als ‘Vredeskunst’ of ‘De Weg van Harmonie’. Soms wordt het omschreven als ‘De Weg van Harmoniseren van Ki.’
‘Do’ staat uiteraard voor ‘De Weg’, en het woord ‘Ki’ is inmiddels zo bekend dat het waarschijnlijk wel zo, onvertaald, kan blijven staan.
Dan hebben we nog ‘Ai’ – wat noch vrede noch harmonie betekent.

Dutch, Essay

Morihei Ueshiba, Budo en Kamae deel 2 [Dutch Version]

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John Stevens at the Aikido Celebration 2011 banquet in Honolulu, Hawaii
*This is a Dutch translation of the article "Morihei Ueshiba, Budo and Kamae Part 2 – A note from John Stevens", courtesy of Ernesto Lemke of Seikokan Aikido.
Recentelijk (27 februari 2012) plaatste ik een Blog getiteld ‘Morihei Ueshiba, Budo en Kamae.’ In dat artikel gebruikte ik een citaat uit de vertaling van Budo, ‘Budo: Teachings of the Founder of Aikido’ door John Stevens.
John Stevens vroeg me of ik een reactie wilde plaatsen, wat ik bij deze doe, samen met mijn reactie daarop.

Interview, Translation

Aikido Shihan Hiroshi Tada: The Budo Body, Part 4

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Hiroshi Tada (3rd from right) at the 40th Anniversary of Aikikai SwitzerlandWith the Mayor of Neuchâtel and Ambassador and Mrs. Ichiro KomatsuFrom Aikido Shimbun number 585, published October 10th 2009
This is part 4 of the English translation of an interview in Japanese with Hiroshi Tada. You may want to read Part 1 first to learn about Tada Sensei’s samurai ancestry and his encounters with Shotokan Karate Founder Gichin Funakoshi, Part 2 to learn about how Hiroshi Tada met Shin-Shin Toitsu-Do Founder Tempu Nakamura, and Part 3 to learn Tada Sensei’s thoughts on "telepathy" training.You may also be interested in "The Day I Entered Ueshiba Dojo", in which Hiroshi Tada recounts his first encounter with Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba O-Sensei.You may notice that the tone of the interview is quite conversational. This is the way that it appears in the original Japanese – the original was not heavily edited, with the result being that the natural conversational tone was preserved. However, this also means that the discussion is sometimes less focused then a more heavily edited interview might be.

Interview, Translation

Aikido Shihan Hiroshi Tada: The Budo Body, Part 3

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Hiroshi Tada cutting bamboo at a Tempukai summer training camp, 1959
One of Hiroshi Tada’s teachers, Tempu Nakamura, was famous for his bamboo cutting training. The bamboo was suspended from hollows cut into two strips of paper, which in turn hung from two upturned knives held by two assistants. The bamboo would be split without ripping the suspending top and bottom holes in the strips of paper. Koichi Tohei also continued this training method, as explained by his son Shinichi Tohei.
This is part 3 of the English translation of an interview in Japanese with Hiroshi Tada. You may want to read part 1 first to learn about Tada Sensei’s samurai ancestry and his encounters with Shotokan Karate Founder Gichin Funakoshi, and part 2 to learn about how Hiroshi Tada met Shin-Shin Toitsu-Do Founder Tempu Nakamura.You may also be interested in "The Day I Entered Ueshiba Dojo", in which Hiroshi Tada recounts his first encounter with Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba O-Sensei.

Essay

Morihei Ueshiba, Budo and Kamae – Part 3

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Tai-no-henka to the left and right, from "Budo" 1938
If you haven’t read "Morihei Ueshiba, Budo and Kamae" yet then you’ll probably want to go back and read that article first.
You may also want to read "Morihei Ueshiba, Budo and Kamae – Part 2", which contains a response from John Stevens to the original article.
Now, take a look at the section above, "Tai-no-henka to the left and right", scanned from Morihei Ueshiba O-Sensei’s 1938 technical manual "Budo".