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Morihiro Saito Sensei - History in Brief - 2
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After the founder’s passing on April 26, 1969, Saito
Sensei became chief instructor of the Iwama Dojo as well as
guardian of the Aiki Shrine close to the dojo.
Saito Sensei made his first trip abroad in 1974 to teach
seminars in California. His lucid teaching methods made him
very popular among Aikido practitioners the world over. He
travelled extensively throughout the world teaching from
1974 until 2000. In particular, there are large groups of
Saito Sensei’s students in the U.S.A, Sweden, Denmark,
Italy, Germany, Australia and Great Britain.
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Saito Sensei continued the tradition of apprenticeship that
he himself had experienced by running the “uchi-deshi” or
live-in student system in the Iwama Dojo. In this way,
people were able to live and breathe Aikido in the same dojo
that the founder of the art had built and trained in. This
gave students from all over the world not only an
exceptional opportunity to train the techniques of Aikido in
the actual dojo of the founder, but also to get a taste of
the culture to which these techniques and adherent
principles belong. With Japanese and foreign Aikido
practitioners training, working and living together, this
was truly a wonderful example of sharing the rich cultural
heritage of Budo, in its traditional form, with the people
of the world.
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