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Mark Murray wrote:
Ahhh, I did not know that it was Deguchi who suggested the name. That clears things up a bit. Thanks.
Still, it was the point of conception for the name, Aikido. Kind of important in that aspect.
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Not sure it was Deguchi either. Prof. Shishida of Waseda Uni. says that it was most likely one of the military men inspired by a book that was in circulation at the time.
In any case, he also says that because of Ueshiba's relationship to Takeda (student-teacher) it was not him.
I got that from a draft of a conference presentation Shishida was making on the subject - it was based on the diary of Admiral Takeshita. Shishida doesn't say which military man - no smoking gun I'm afraid.