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  • Aikido Shihan Hiroshi Tada: The Budo Body, Part 8

    Hiroshi Tada Sensei on the cover of Aikido Journal #101
    See “Interview with Hiroshi Tada” by Stanley Pranin from this issue

    Ishin-denshin, the “heart-to-heart transmission”

    This is the eighth and final section of the English translation of an interview in Japanese with Hiroshi Tada. You may want to read the previous sections first:

    Part 1: explore Tada Sensei’s samurai ancestry and his encounters with Shotokan Karate Founder Gichin Funakoshi.

    Part 2: find out how Hiroshi Tada met Shin-Shin Toitsu-Do Founder Tempu Nakamura.

    Part 3: discover Tada Sensei’s thoughts on “telepathy” training.

    Part 4: read Tada Sensei’s thoughts on Japanese Budo and Kata training.

    Part 5: learn about the most influential person in the history of Japan, and their relationship to Japanese Budo.

    Part 6: find out why Hiroshi Tada’s father was told never to read books on archery.

    Part 7: discover why you should never eat watermelon after a fast.

    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 would be.  (more…)

  • Aikido Shihan Hiroshi Tada: The Budo Body, Part 6

    Hiroshi Tada Sensei with Moriteru Ueshiba Doshu as Yoji Fujimoto receives promotion to 8th Dan
    Aikikai Hombu Dojo, Kagami Biraki 2010
    Fujimoto moved to Italy in 1970 to assist Tada in developing Aikido in Italy

    Never read books on archery. Never criticize another persons technique.

    This is part 6 of the English translation of an interview in Japanese with Hiroshi Tada. You may want to read the previous sections first:

    Part 1: explore Tada Sensei’s samurai ancestry and his encounters with Shotokan Karate Founder Gichin Funakoshi.

    Part 2: find out how Hiroshi Tada met Shin-Shin Toitsu-Do Founder Tempu Nakamura.

    Part 3: discover Tada Sensei’s thoughts on “telepathy” training.

    Part 4: read Tada Sensei’s thoughts on Japanese Budo and Kata training.

    Part 5: learn about the most influential person in the history of Japan, and their relationship to Japanese Budo.

    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 would be.  (more…)

  • Aikido Shihan Hiroshi Tada: The Budo Body, Part 4

    Hiroshi Tada (3rd from right) at the 40th Anniversary of Aikikai Switzerland
    With the Mayor of Neuchâtel and Ambassador and Mrs. Ichiro Komatsu
    From Aikido Shimbun number 585, published October 10th 2009

    Japanese Budo and Kata Training

    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.  (more…)

  • Aikido Shihan Hiroshi Tada: The Budo Body, Part 3

    Hiroshi Tada cutting bamboo at a Tempukai summer training camp, 1959

    Hiroshi Tada Sensei speaks about telepathy training

    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.  (more…)

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