Talk:Morihiro Saito

message: I would like to know why my sensei, Štefan Kurilla has been removed from the list of Saito sensei's followers after I added him. There are people with lower rank listed, and he is certainly 'significant' enough, being Saito sensei's highest ranking follower in central Europe.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.141.95.202 (talk) 23:01, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Štefan Kurilla 

message: Is there more information available on what has happened to the organisations of Saito's students, since his death? In particular, which organisations (e.g., takemusa) are back under the aikikai umbrella or not? There seems to be a lack of information here about the heirachy of Saito's followers. They are certainly notable and relevent to this article. Also, shouldn't the listing of students be restricted to those of the highest ranks and notabilities? Cesiumfrog (talk) 23:49, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  successor organisations 

message: The first paragraph of the legacy section includes Michael Field (official representative in Australia) and Michael "Mic" Marelli - Australia. Is it possible that the "official representative" bit is an exageration? Googling for Michael Field's website  and comparing with the next paragraph of the section, it turns out that Michael Field is only 5d, whereas a 6d shihan of Saito has been in Australia since before Mr Field even first went to Iwama. Other red flags: his website titles him Michael Field the Iwama Ryu Aikido Australia Soke (!), says his organisation Field Aikido has been issuing Iwama Ryu Aikido Dan Ranks exclusively in Australia since 1994, and boastfully Michael says "Now that my master, Morihiro Saito Sensei the technical heir of the founder has passed away (2002), no one is qualified to rank me" (presumably that puts him above the two Takemusu 7ds). Meanwhile Michael "Mic" Marelli is apparently 6d according to Saito junior's organisation . It seems that the article currently has the order of precedence for these three reversed. Cesiumfrog (talk) 22:27, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael Field 

message: According to the succession box at the bottom of the article, Morihiro was immediately succeeded (as Iwama dojo-cho) by Hiroshi Isoyama. However, according to some other articles (e.g., here), Morihiro was succeeded by his son Hitohiro (perhaps even while Morihiro still lived, and continuing for a couple more years after his death, before being replaced with Isoyama). Anyone have definitive information? Perhaps there is a further need to distinguish defacto from dejure dojocho? Cesiumfrog (talk) 03:29, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  succession box 

message: For what it's worth, here are the ISBNs of the five volume "Traditional Aikido" set that I own. "Japan Publications and Trading Company" currently listed in the main article as the publisher, was a distributor in US and Canada, not the publisher.
* Traditional Aikido Vol. 1 Basic Techniques, 1st printing: September 1973, Author: Morihiro Saito, Publisher: Minato Research and Publishing Company, ISBN: 0-87040-266-8 (mine is 4th printing, July 1976)
* Traditional Aikido Vol. 2 Advanced Techniques, 1st printing: January 1974, Author: Morihiro Saito, Publisher: Minato Research and Publishing Company, ISBN: 0-87040-267-6 (mine is 6th printing, October 1978)
* Traditional Aikido Vol. 3 Applied Techniques, 1st printing: July 1974, Author: Morihiro Saito, Publisher: Minato Research and Publishing Company, ISBN: 0-87040-287-0 (mine is 4th printing, November 1978)
* Traditional Aikido Vol. 4 Vital Techniques, 1st printing: October 1974, Author: Morihiro Saito, Publisher: Minato Research and Publishing Company, ISBN: 0-87040-288-9 (mine is 3rd printing, July 1977)
* Traditional Aikido Vol. 5 Training Works Wonders, 1st printing: April 1976, Author: Morihiro Saito, Publisher: Minato Research and Publishing Company, ISBN: 0-87040-372-9 (mine is 2nd printing, July 1978)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.240.239.195 (talk) 03:25, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Books 

message: For what it's worth, Saito Morihiro Sensei received 8th dan certificate from Ueshiba Morihei sensei (photograph of the 3rd and 8th dan certificates are provided in the "Traditional Aikido" books.  Allegedly, he received a 9th dan from Ueshiba Kissomaru Sensei on August 4th, 1996, however I am still looking for confirmation of this information. 
~~  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.9.176 (talk) 05:48, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dan rank 

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