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Old 02-13-2005, 08:44 PM   #3
Don_Modesto
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Re: Did O Sensei influence Karate?

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Jorge Garcia wrote:
Perhaps someone has brought this up before but this was new to me.
http://www.jkr.com/history/
Best,
Posted this in answer to this question on AJ, too:

I've never heard of much of what is claimed on that page. Nishio trained with Konishi, though ( http://aikidojournal.com/article.php?articleID=524 and http://aikidojournal.com/article.php?articleID=397). But this is the first I've heard of Osensei meeting him.

In Harry Cook's Karate -A Precise History, there's an end note with Inoue Noriaki, Osensei's cousin, going on about triangles, circles, and squares. Cook laconically dismisses it as nonsense. It seems, however, to have gotten a warmer reception from Egami Shigeru, who ran the Shotokai offshoot of JKA and eventually turned it into Shintaido (or maybe one of his students did, I forget). So there is some connection to the family and Omoto teachings, if not precisely aikido. See http://www.shotokai.com/ingles/essays/aokieng.html and the usual search engines.

Hope this helps.

Don J. Modesto
St. Petersburg, Florida
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