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Old 05-10-2010, 02:24 PM   #26
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I can't get past the feeling this conversation isn't appropriate for public discussion and it is disrespectful toward Tohei Sensei to discuss his private correspondence.

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Old 05-10-2010, 03:02 PM   #27
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I can't get past the feeling this conversation isn't appropriate for public discussion and it is disrespectful toward Tohei Sensei to discuss his private correspondence.
Yeah, I've been thinking about it myself.

When it happened, no doubt it was something private. But at some point things like this become "history". This was a defining moment in so many ways in the history of Aikido. So I really don't know. Has enough time passed yet to try to put this to rest? Is it time to allow it to be "read into the record"?

Still pondering it myself...

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Old 05-10-2010, 05:42 PM   #28
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I can't get past the feeling this conversation isn't appropriate for public discussion and it is disrespectful toward Tohei Sensei to discuss his private correspondence.
It was hardly private - the letter in question was mailed out to hundreds (thousands?) of dojo worldwide.

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Old 05-10-2010, 09:58 PM   #29
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Oh ok...I have no relationship with Tohei Sensei or Ki Society other than I trained under Toyoda Sensei's group...so that was just an outsider's perspective. I figured if it was public note it would be published somewhere....pay no nevermind to me!

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Old 05-10-2010, 10:14 PM   #30
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Yeah, I get the idea, but it still feels kinda intrusive since Tohei is still with us.

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Old 05-10-2010, 10:29 PM   #31
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Yeah, I get the idea, but it still feels kinda intrusive since Tohei is still with us.
If he' still with us, why not have someone ask him directly? Go to the source.

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Old 05-11-2010, 01:05 AM   #32
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Hi,

Tohei Sensei sent what we call in in German an "open letter" (Don't know whether this word exists in English?) to the aikikai affiliated dojo all over the world and it was - as far as I know - addressed to the aikido-public: To the people doing aikikai-aikido. Up to then he was the main teacher of the aikikai.

This letter was definitely not a private one. - Neither was the answer of Abe Sensei. - It was meant by Tohei Sensei to be read by every student of aikikai aikido.

So why shouldn't it be published again after all those years?
Is it still impossible to look back without anger?
Maybe our look on those conflict here in Germany is more relaxed because we didn't suffer such a split of aikido as you did in the US? (Over here there is nearly no Ki-Aikido.)
But is this really more than a "historical issue" today?

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It's not Tohei Sensei who doesn't show this letter to the public. It's the addressees. The aikikai dojo which have it in their records.

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Old 05-11-2010, 07:06 AM   #33
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Indeed; it was an open letter so the idea was that it could/should be discussed as we are attempting to do so here. It probably wasn't his intention that so much time should pass and it still be a point of interest because of the secrecy that has shrouded it, but that's the fault of others, not Tohei sensei or ourselves.
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Old 05-11-2010, 07:22 AM   #34
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Okay, then, anyone have a copy they want to post? I've only heard it discussed but never seen the letter itself. I have a few folk I can ask myself.

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Old 05-11-2010, 10:54 PM   #35
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I know this concept of an open letter..but its not something that is practiced too often in the USA....maybe a MEMO...but not exactly the same thing. I wonder if there is a Japanese name for this type of correspondence?

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Old 05-11-2010, 11:58 PM   #36
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Hi,

Tohei Sensei sent what we call in in German an "open letter" (Don't know whether this word exists in English?) to the aikikai affiliated dojo all over the world and it was - as far as I know - addressed to the aikido-public: To the people doing aikikai-aikido. Up to then he was the main teacher of the aikikai.

This letter was definitely not a private one. - Neither was the answer of Abe Sensei. - It was meant by Tohei Sensei to be read by every student of aikikai aikido.

So why shouldn't it be published again after all those years?
Is it still impossible to look back without anger?
Maybe our look on those conflict here in Germany is more relaxed because we didn't suffer such a split of aikido as you did in the US? (Over here there is nearly no Ki-Aikido.)
But is this really more than a "historical issue" today?

Hm and:
It's not Tohei Sensei who doesn't show this letter to the public. It's the addressees. The aikikai dojo which have it in their records.

Carsten


Not only would I like to see the letter, but Abe Sensei's response as well.

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Old 05-12-2010, 12:53 AM   #37
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Re: Tohei resignation letter

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I know this concept of an open letter..but its not something that is practiced too often in the USA....maybe a MEMO...but not exactly the same thing. I wonder if there is a Japanese name for this type of correspondence?
On the contrary, I think that open letters are quite common in the US - you often seen them published in newspapers and other similar mediums.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_letter

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Old 05-12-2010, 03:13 AM   #38
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From the point of view of history, I think I'd be more interested in knowing what happened when Tohei Sensei spoke to Kisshomaru Ueshiba in person prior to sending that letter. Apparently there were a few others in the room at the time, one of whom was Koretoshi Maruyama Sensei. Perhaps if the opportunity ever presents itself I'll be able to ask him.

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