An interesting news item in the Omoto Jinshin Diary publication, July 1st 1932.

It notes the establishment of a temporary Aiki-jujutsu dojo at the factory of the Omoto Tenseisha publishing company at the Omoto Ten’onkyo temple complex in Kameoka, with instruction by Morihei Ueshiba’s student Tsutomu Yukawa.

The article cites Moritaka Ueshiba as the Founder of Aiki-jujutsu and credits the Holy Teacher (Seishi) Onisaburo Deguchi as having bestowed the name Aiki-jujutsu on the art…but notes that it is sometimes called “Daito-ryu”.

Interestingly, the article states that Moritaka Ueshiba’s students are also taught Judo on alternate nights by Oe Takahashi, a 5th Dan from the Maizuru Naval Academy.

On a side note, Morihei Ueshiba’s nephew Yoichiro Inoue later claimed that the students in this dojo were something of a problem:

“We initially taught in Ten’onkyo in Kameoka. I was teaching then but as you know those practicing the martial arts are all the mischievous type! I couldn’t put them in place every time I went there. So I talked to Reverend Deguchi about the problem. He said: ‘Inoue, why don’t you get rid of them by sending them to Takeda?’ To tell the truth they were all kicked out of Kameoka! They say the reason was because a dojo was built in Takeda but that’s not true. They were sent to Takeda because they were so selfish.”

– Aikido Masters, edited by Stanley Pranin