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Morihei Ueshiba

1883 - 1969

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Morihei Ueshiba (植芝 盛平, Ueshiba Morihei; December 14, 1883 – April 26, 1969) was a Japanese martial artist and founder of the martial art of aikido. He is often referred to as "the founder" Kaiso (開祖) or Ōsensei (大先生/翁先生), "Great Teacher". The son of a landowner from Tanabe, Ueshiba studied a number of martial arts in his youth, and served in the Japanese Army during the Russo-Japanese War. After being discharged in 1907, he moved to Hokkaido as the head of a pioneer settlement; here he met and studied with Takeda Sōkaku, the headmaster of Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Morihei Ueshiba is the 4th most popular martial arts, the 46th most popular biography from Japan (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Martial Arts.

Morihei Ueshiba is most famous for being the founder of aikido. He was a martial artist who studied under the founder of Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu, Takeda Sokaku.

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Among MARTIAL ARTS

Among martial arts, Morihei Ueshiba ranks 4 out of 179. Before him are Ip Man, Kanō Jigorō, and Gichin Funakoshi. After him are Mas Oyama, Choi Hong Hi, Wong Fei-hung, Huo Yuanjia, Linda Lee Cadwell, Conor McGregor, Matsumura Sōkon, and Jon Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Morihei Ueshiba ranks 19. Before him are Lev Kamenev, Norman Haworth, Otto Heinrich Warburg, Grigory Zinoviev, Pierre Laval, and José Ortega y Gasset. After him are Clement Attlee, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Edgard Varèse, Lon Chaney, Theo van Doesburg, and Semyon Budyonny. Among people deceased in 1969, Morihei Ueshiba ranks 24. Before him are Liu Shaoqi, Jan Palach, Rocky Marciano, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Iskander Mirza, and Brian Jones. After him are Jack Kerouac, Robert Taylor, Vesto Slipher, Dominique Pire, Levi Eshkol, and Otto Dix.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Morihei Ueshiba ranks 46 out of 6,245. Before him are Sadako Sasaki (1943), Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), and Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147). After him are Akira Toriyama (1955), Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Takeda Shingen (1521), and Yasujirō Ozu (1903).

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Among MARTIAL ARTS In Japan

Among martial arts born in Japan, Morihei Ueshiba ranks 3. Before him are Kanō Jigorō (1860), and Gichin Funakoshi (1868). After him are Matsumura Sōkon (1809), Ankō Itosu (1831), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), Kenwa Mabuni (1889), Chōjun Miyagi (1888), Hironori Ōtsuka (1892), Motobu Chōki (1870), Higaonna Kanryō (1853), and Koichi Tohei (1920).

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