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Takeno Takafumi Shihan (9th Dan) 全日本養神館合気道連盟会長 KAICHO (Chairman) for the ALL JAPAN YOSHINKAN AIKIDO FEDERATION 合気道山梨養神館長 KANCHO (Headmaster) for AIKIDO YAMANASHI YOSHINKAN 合気道養神館本部道場最高師範 SAIKOU SHIHAN (Highest Rank Shihan) for AIKIDO YOSHINKAN HONBU DOJO 公益財団法人合気道養神会高段位技術審査委員会委員長 COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN for the High Rank Technique Examination Committee for the ALL JAPAN YOSHINKAN AIKIDO FEDERATION 公益財団法人合気道養神会評議員 COUNCILLOR for the ALL JAPAN YOSHINKAN AIKIDO FEDERATION 山梨学院大学合気道部師範 SHIHAN for YAMANASHI UNIVERSITY AIKIDO SECTION 佛教大学合気道部師範 SHIHAN for YAMANASHI BUKKYO UNIVERSITY AIKIDO SECTION |
| Born 1947 in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Became a live-in student at the Yoshinkan Aikido Honbu Dojo under Soke Gozo Shioda in 1968, where he remained until 1987 and held the position of Dojocho (Chief Instructor) from the age of 23. From 1978 until 1987 he was a part-time aikido instructor for the police department. In 1981, Takeno Sensei was awarded the shihan license, and in 1988 became head of the Yamanashi branch of Yoshinkan Aikido. International Budo Federation awarded him Special Merit Award for the promotion of Budo (martial art) in 1996. Takeno Shihan is on the Board of Directors of the All Japan Yoshinkan Aikido Federation and is the Yamanashi Bukkyo University and Yamanashi University Aikido Section Shihan. In the year 2007, he was appointed as the Saikou Komon (Supreme Advisor) to Aikido Yoshinkan Honbu Dojo in Japan, and subsequently to 9th Dan in the year 2008. |
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Nakagawa Chiemi Sensei (6th Dan) Nakagawa sensei is currently the chief instructor and also dojo administrator at Yamanashi Yoshinkan . She started training in Aikido since 1974 and obtained her 6th Dan black belt in 2013. She also holds a level one (first class) instructor certificate. Nakagawa Sensei has won many awards, including:
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