Updates: Photo from Class on July 27th
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Updates: Photo from Class on June 29th
Updates: Photo from Class on April 21st
Events: Kanai Sensei Memorial: 20th anniversary
We had a very active and fun memorial today, and here are a few photos from the event. Please also check out these moving essays from people whose lives Kanai sensei touched deeply. https://aikidotekkojuku.org/remembering-kanai-sensei/
Lee Pistone was Kanai Sensei’s student 1996-2004
The most surprising thing I discovered about Kanai Sensei was his compassion. It was not what I expected from a man of his stature in martial arts. The best example I can give is…. When I was away from classes due […]
Mike Huben was Kanai Sensei’s student 1983-2004
My first experience of Kanai Sensei was in my first day of classes. During kokyu ho, he came by and seated himself to practice with me. He grasped my wrists and I tried to move him, and it was hopeless. […]
George Mokray was Kanai Sensei’s student 1982-2004
Kanai Sensei was a powerful presence. Not tall but broad across the chest and with well-muscled forearms that, I later learned, were soft. All that iaido. He paid special attention to beginners, teaching basics classes every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. He […]
Yasu Itoh Sensei was Kanai Sensei’s student 1978-2004
I had been practicing Aikido for four years at Musashi University’s Aikido club in Tokyo. Ibecame a captain of the club and received the 2nd Dan upon my graduation in 1976. I imagined that I also graduated from Aikido and […]
Kei Izawa was Kanai Sensei’s student 1976-1978
My time with Kanai Sensei was between 1976 to 1978, and it was a time when he was finally gaining some confidence in his life in the US. But he still was shy in imposing Japanese Dojo etiquette to the […]
Gilda Bruckman was Kanai Sensei’s student 1972-2004
I first met Kanai Sensei in April 1972 when I joined New England Aikikai in Central Square, Cambridge. For the next 32 years I was his student, and he was my only teacher. He had a wealth of talents and […]