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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Morihei Ueshiba has received more than 976,673 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Morihei Ueshiba is the 4th most popular martial arts, the 43rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 38th 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, Huo Yuanjia, Wong Fei-hung, Randy Couture, Linda Lee Cadwell, Choi Hong Hi, Ankō Itosu, and Kenwa Mabuni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Morihei Ueshiba ranks 18. Before him are Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev, Clement Attlee, Victor Francis Hess, Pierre Laval, and José Ortega y Gasset. After him are Otto Heinrich Warburg, Semyon Budyonny, Maurice Utrillo, Norman Haworth, Theo van Doesburg, and Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria. Among people deceased in 1969, Morihei Ueshiba ranks 18. Before him are Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, C. F. Powell, Jan Palach, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Liu Shaoqi, and Levi Eshkol. After him are Brian Jones, Otto Dix, Jack Kerouac, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Princess Alice of Battenberg, and Dominique Pire.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Morihei Ueshiba ranks 43 out of 6,245. Before him are Isao Takahata (1935), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), Hiroshige (1797), Gichin Funakoshi (1868), and Hiroo Onoda (1922). After him are Takeda Shingen (1521), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), and Soichiro Honda (1906).

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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 Ankō Itosu (1831), Kenwa Mabuni (1889), Chōjun Miyagi (1888), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), Higaonna Kanryō (1853), Hironori Ōtsuka (1892), Motobu Chōki (1870), Koichi Tohei (1920), and Matsumura Sōkon (1809).

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