Masatomi Ikeda
| Masatomi Ikeda | |
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| Born |
April 8, 1940 Japan |
| Residence |
 Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Aikido teacher |
| Title | Shihan, 7th dan Aikikai |
Masatomi Ikeda (池田 昌富, いけだ まさとみ, Ikeda Masatomi) (born April 8, 1940) is a Japanese aikido teacher who holds the rank of 7th dan Aikikai.
Masatomi Ikeda was born in Tokyo, Japan. He was already interested in budō and sports in general when he was young which resulted in achieving a 5th dan in sumo and 4th dan in judo. Until he started with Aikido in 1958, judo played an essential role in his life. In 1960 he enlisted into the dojo of Hiroshi Tada (9th dan Aikikai). He started intensively practising budō, and especially aikido. He trained himself in judo in the Kodokan Institute and at the dojo of Dokkyo High School. For sumo he trained in the stable Kise’s Sumo.
In 1964, he graduated at the Nippon Physical Education University. In October 1965, he went on his first journey to Italy with the aim of promoting Aikido which he had been teaching for approximately five years. He also obtained a university degree in gymnastics and hygiene; he would have had the possibility of teaching the gymnastics as a pedagogue, but he choose the way of the budōka and spent his time as an aikido professor, primarily in Naples.
In 1971, he returned to Japan with the aim of relearning the aikido from the basics. Besides aikido, he worked as gymnastics professor at the Dokkyo High School, where he had been a pupil before. Seven years passed like that instead of one to two years as he had envisaged. He collected some experience in teaching and some knowledge in Asian medicine like Seitai or seibukenkoho (method of cure according to the manner of seibu). He had also the possibility to learn the hojo kata (in the Kobudo Chokoshinei-ryu).
In 1977, he went on a journey in Europe on the request of the Swiss Cultural Association for Aikido (ACSA). He arrived in Switzerland in October of that year. When he stayed in Italy, he was also teaching judo, but from his arrival in Switzerland on, he completely dedicated his life to aikido. He was a delegated teacher by the Aikikai Foundation in Tokyo and his occupation was promoting Aikido. He served the ACSA for more than 25 years.
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