di ADRIANO AMARI - L’Aikibudō è una magnifica scuola che proviene dalla filosofia del Kobudō Kenkyukai attraverso l’interpretazione del Yōseikan Dōjō di Minoru Mochizuki sensei e l’esperienza - secondo queste linee – portata avanti da Alain Floquet sensei, creatore e direttore di questo metodo
by SIMONE CHIERCHINI - At least 15 years before the French André Nocquet, another westerner had been accepted into Morihei Ueshiba's Kobukan Dojo in Ushigome. He was the multifaceted and mysterious Salvatore Mergé, an esotericist, orientalist, painter and Italian diplomat on a mission as cultural attaché at the Embassy of Italy in Tokyo from 1937 to 1943. In all likelihood Mergé was also the first to teach Aikido outside of Japan starting from 1947, when he gave lessons of the art of Ueshiba, then completely unknown, to a select few in the city of Rome, making Italy the first foreign country ever to know Aikido
by SIMONE CHIERCHINI - At least 15 years before the French André Nocquet, another westerner had been accepted into Morihei Ueshiba's Kobukan Dojo in Ushigome. He was the multifaceted and mysterious Salvatore Mergé, an esotericist, orientalist, painter and Italian diplomat on a mission as cultural attaché at the Embassy of Italy in Tokyo from 1937 to 1943. In all likelihood Mergé was also the first to teach Aikido outside of Japan starting from 1947, when he gave lessons of the art of Ueshiba, then completely unknown, to a select few in the city of Rome, making Italy the first foreign country ever to know Aikido
di SIMONE CHIERCHINI - Almeno 15 anni prima del francese André Nocquet, un altro occidentale era stato accettato nell'allora Kobukan Dojo di Morihei Ueshiba a Ushigome. Era il poliedrico e misterioso Salvatore Mergé, esoterista, orientalista, pittore e diplomatico italiano in missione come addetto culturale presso l'Ambasciata d'Italia a Tokyo dal 1937 al 1943. Con ogni probabilità Mergé fu anche il primo a insegnare Aikido fuori dal Giappone a partire dal 1947, quando diede lezioni dell'arte di Ueshiba, allora del tutto sconosciuta, a pochi selezionati nella città di Roma, facendo dell'Italia il primo paese straniero in assoluto a conoscere l'Aikido
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