Aikido Pioneers, Postwar Era

The book

This expansive hardbound volume contains interviews with many of the closest postwar students of the founder of aikido. Edited from hundreds of hours of conversations conducted over a 30-year period by Stanley Pranin, this book features the aikido masters that many of us have encountered directly.

The book contains in person accounts and insights from Seiseki Abe, Katsuaki Asai, T.K. Chiba, Seishiro Endo, Masatake Fujita, Shizuo Imaizumi, Kayoichi Inoue, Hiroshi Isoyama, Mitsunari Kanai, Yasuo Kobayashi, Shoji Nishio, Morihiro Saito, Mitsugi Saotome, Masando Sasaki, Kenji Shimizu, Seichi Sugano, Hiroshi Tada, Hideo Takahashi, Mariye Takahashi, Nobuyoshi Tamura, Moriteru Ueshiba, and Yoshimitsu Yamada.