The caption for the photo states that Kano was highly impressed with O’Sensei’s budo. I’m wondering about the effect that Kano had on O’Sensei. The fact that Kano had ‘synthesized elements of old-style jujutsu schools with his own principles and philosophy of education to create modern judo’ sounds quite similar to what O’Sensei had done with Aikido. Knowing what Kano had done with Judo must have given O’Sensei some incentive to also create a ‘martial art’ that was ‘for the entire world’.
Apr
04
Apt. If I recall O Sensei met Kano Sensei in the ’30′s. If my understanding is correct, he worked on the development of what we now know as aikido after WWII. Can imagine that he might have had a lot to think about in the intervening years.
More here….
http://www.sandiegojudo.com/pdfs/The%20Budo%20of%20Kano%20and%20Ueshiba.pdf