b. 1940, is an aikido teacher and founder of the aikido style Tendoryu. Shimizu was born in 1940 in Fukuoka, Japan. He had been training judo since childhood and held a 4th dan in this art when he changed to aikido in 1963. He then became one of the last personal students of the aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba. After Ueshiba died in 1969, Shimizu, then with a 7th dan in aikido, founded his own school in Tokyo named Tendoryu (School of the Way of Heaven). Wikipedia
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