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Koichi Tohei

1920 - 2011

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Koichi Tohei (藤平光一, Tōhei Kōichi) (20 January 1920 – 19 May 2011) was a 10th Dan aikidoka and founder of the Ki Society and its style of aikido, officially Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido (literally "aikido with mind and body unified"), but commonly known as Ki-Aikido. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Koichi Tohei has received more than 156,064 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Koichi Tohei is the 24th most popular martial arts (up from 26th in 2019), the 868th most popular biography from Japan (down from 862nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Martial Arts.

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Among MARTIAL ARTS

Among martial arts, Koichi Tohei ranks 24 out of 179. Before him are Fedor Emelianenko, Higaonna Kanryō, Cynthia Rothrock, Hironori Ōtsuka, Billy Blanks, and Motobu Chōki. After him are Matsumura Sōkon, Frank Dux, Benny Urquidez, Anderson Silva, Semmy Schilt, and Shoji Nishio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Koichi Tohei ranks 192. Before him are Lewis Gilbert, Frances Ames, Richard E. Bellman, Yves Robert, Cornelius Ryan, and Gordon Gould. After him are Leo McKern, Stan Ockers, Giuseppe Colombo, Milton George Henschel, John Chadwick, and Josefa Iloilo. Among people deceased in 2011, Koichi Tohei ranks 155. Before him are Ali-Reza Pahlavi, Norio Ohga, Kurt Sanderling, Claude Choules, Sven Tumba, and Bernd Eichinger. After him are Bo Carpelan, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Sena Jurinac, Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Randy Savage, and Mohamed Bouazizi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Koichi Tohei ranks 868 out of 6,245. Before him are Yutaka Taniyama (1927), Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (1946), Juzo Itami (1933), Arima Harunobu (1567), Utagawa Toyokuni (1769), and Keiichi Tsuchiya (1956). After him are Ashikaga Yoshikatsu (1434), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Tadao Horie (1913), Yoshito Usui (1958), Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889), and Kyuichi Tokuda (1894).

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Among MARTIAL ARTS In Japan

Among martial arts born in Japan, Koichi Tohei ranks 11. Before him are Kenwa Mabuni (1889), Chōjun Miyagi (1888), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), Higaonna Kanryō (1853), Hironori Ōtsuka (1892), and Motobu Chōki (1870). After him are Matsumura Sōkon (1809), Shoji Nishio (1927), Morihiro Saito (1928), Gozo Shioda (1915), Takayuki Kubota (1934), and Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928).

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