Re: Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu Documentary
A couple more tidbits. Yukawa and Shioda are both mentioned as having ties with Shirata.
Shirata said that Yukawa was the best of Ueshiba's senior deshi and that his teaching was generous and detailed (perhaps in contrast to "others"). There is a story that while still in middle school he showed up by himself at the Kodokan as a third dan and terrorized the place. Just to clarify I think he was killed some years later than the period we are discussing.
Shioda wasn't an uchi deshi, but seems to have been considered one of the group anyway. According to Shioda he would sneak out at night with Shirata to go out on the town. Ueshiba seems to always have noticed and would scold them the next day. Anyway they were pals until Shirata was drafted and sent to Manchuria in late '37.
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