Aikido Kenkyukai International (AKI)
Takeda Yoshinobu Shihan
Takeda Yoshinobu Shihan - AKI Aikido Kenkyukai International / Shonan Aikido Renmei

takeda yoshinobu senseishonan aikido renmeiyamaguchi senseiTakeda Sensei Shonan Aikido Renmei Takeda Yoshinobu Shihan, 8th dan, began his
study of Aikido in the early 1960’s at the Honbu
Dojo in Tokyo and trained for many years under
the late Yamaguchi Seigo Shihan, 9th dan,
himself a direct student of O-Sensei, the Founder
of Aikido. He was soon recognised as one of
Yamaguchi Sensei’s most gifted students and
was urged by his teacher to start his own dojo
in the late 1960’s.

Today he is regarded as one of the greatest living
masters of Aikido. Takeda Sensei’s style is
incredibly beautiful, dynamic and powerful, yet
overwhelmingly soft and effortless. This unique
combination of qualities has attracted and inspired
students and Aikido dojo all over the world.



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Takeda Sensei is currently the director of Aikido Kenkyukai International and of the
Shonan Aikido Renmei in Kamakura, Japan, where he teaches. He is also a member
of the Aikikai Board of Directors at Honbu Dojo in Tokyo.


The human spirit
has the wondrous capacity
to extend a hundred million light years
beyond the limits of space...

Let us try to purify our minds in practice.
If you can focus clearly
only for an instant,
in that moment you will know yourself
with the mind of the Universe.

Takeda Yoshinobu Shihan
View Takeda Shihan's demonstration from the
44th All Japan Aikido Enbukai 2006
Aikido Sydney


All photographs of Takeda Shihan courtesy
of Takeda Satoshi Sensei