"We Turn the Spotlight on the Life of...
Aiki-jujutsu Master Yukiyoshi Sagawa"

Yukiyoshi Sagawa (1902-1998) was born in Yubetsu, Hokkaido, Japan. He officially began his study of Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu with Sokaku Takeda in 1914 after learning from his father Nenokichi Sagawa (1867–1950).

His father held a teaching certificate under Sokaku.

Yukiyoshi received the Kyoju Dairi (teaching certificate) in 1932 in Hokkaido, which was the highest level at the time, before Menkyo Kaiden was available.

Sagawa was considered by many to be one of the most accomplished students of Sokaku Takeda, and often accompanied him as an assistant during the 1930s.

He opperated a small dojo attached to his home in Tokyo, and taught only a small number of students.

He is said to have remained powerful in the art until very late in life, and was featured in a series of articles in the Aiki News magazine.

Tatsuo Kimura, a mathematics professor at the University of Tsukuba and a senior student of Sagawa, runs a small aiki-jujutsu study group.

Kimura has written two books about his training under Yukiyoshi Sagawa, titled... Transparent Power and Discovering Aiki.

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