Takemusu Aikido. Volume 5: Bukidori & Ninindori

Tokyo: Aiki News, 2001. — 172 p. — ISBN 4-900586-61-7.
Language: English / Japanese.Aiki News is pleased to publish the fifth volume of the Takemusu Aikido technical series by Morihiro Saito Shihan, 9th dan. Saito Sensei continues with his explanations of the highly-refined aikido techniques of Founder Morihei Ueshiba as taught during the Iwama years following World War II.
Volume 5 covers in great depth the following series of techniques: tachidori, jodori, jonage, tankendori and ninindori. These techniques are rarely shown in most styles of aikido and reveal the broad adaptability of the art to diverse situations. As in the previous volumes of this series, we have attempted to present through photographs and words, the fine points of the myriad of wonderful techniques of aikido. It is our hope that this manual will prove a valuable reference to all those interested in the “takemusu aikido” of O-Sensei.