Here at the frontier, the leaves fall like rain. Although my neighbors are all barbarians, and you, you are a thousand miles away, there are still two cups at my table.


Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

~ Wu-men ~


Thursday, November 12, 2026

The Shinei Taido of Noriake Inoue


Noriake Inoue was the nephew of the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba. He was with his during the development of the latter's Aiki Budo and early aikido. He was roughly a contemporary of Kenji Tomiki. 

Around about 1935, due to differences between the two men, Inoue left and developed his own version of the martial art which he called Shinwa Taido, and later renamed to Shinei Taido. 

Below is a video of Inoue.


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