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Old 05-03-2007, 07:30 AM   #38
George S. Ledyard
 
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Re: loyalty a lost virtue

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Christopher Li wrote: View Post
How loyal was Morihei Ueshiba to Sokaku Takeda?

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Chris
This is a pretty good example of what we are talking about, actually. O-Sensei clearly felt the need to go in his own direction and did so. But from all accounts of the deshi, he always referred to Takeda respectfully and whenever Takeda visited, O-Sensei treated him as his teacher and acted accordingly. The virtual disowning of Takeda and Daito Ryu was done buy the Aikikai under Kisshomaru, Osawa, and company (at least as I understand it).

Also, in terms of loyalty going both ways, as Chuck Clark Sensei pointed out, Takeda did some questionable things such as walking in and hi-jacking the Asahi Newspaper training program.

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