Morihei Ueshiba’s weapons background: “Did this classical school influence the Founder’s later Aikido? Kisshomaru Ueshiba thought so…”

A bojutsu demonstration by members of the Yagyu Shingan-ryu school. Morihei studied this ryuha while in the army starting around 1904 and occasionally after his discharge.

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