Noriaki Inoue: Aikido's Forgotten Pioneer (On Demand) Ryu Narushima Author of "The Door to

Author of "The Door to Taikiken" and creator of "Taikiken Challenge Course" DVD

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Noriaki Inoue: Aikido's Forgotten Pioneer (On Demand) Ryu Narushima Author of "The Door toMorihei Ueshiba is widely recognized as the founder of aikido, a modern Japanese martial art with a strong spiritual emphasis. What is known only to a few, however, are the contributions of Ueshiba's nephew, Noriaki Inoue, to the development of the precursor of aikido called "Aiki Budo."Noriaki Inoue was raised in the Ueshiba home in Tanabe in the early part of the 1900s. He was with Morihei when his uncle studied Daito ryu Jujutsu in Hokkaido under