{"id":1749,"date":"2010-07-12T18:15:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2010-09-02T19:08:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T00:08:04","slug":"tamura-sensei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/tamura-sensei\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamura Sensei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-832\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/dee-sensei\/img4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-832\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"Nobuyoshi Tamura Shihan and Seabolt Sensei\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Img4-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"Nobuyoshi Tamura Shihan and Seabolt Sensei\" width=\"243\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Img4-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Img4-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Img4.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a>I remember the first time I saw Tamura Sensei. It was Montreal, May 1997.\u00a0Sensei was teaching\u00a0a seminar at Aikido de la Montagne, and to my 4th kyu eyes, it looked like magic.<\/p>\n<p>I remember seeing Sensei call both Peter Bernath and Donovan Waite to demonstrate, as ukes. They each held\u00a0the end of a jo, with both hands, facing him. And then&#8230;something happened. Donovan and Peter went flying.<\/p>\n<p>My memory of\u00a0Sensei\u00a0is that of a generous teacher, someone who loved Aikido.\u00a0More than that, though.\u00a0He seemed to <em>enjoy<\/em> Aikido, enjoy helping others.\u00a0Although I only saw Sensei in seminars,\u00a0he made a lasting impression on me.<\/p>\n<p>Tamura Sensei\u00a0passed on July 9, 2010, after a bout with pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Sensei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the first time I saw Tamura Sensei. It was Montreal, May 1997.\u00a0Sensei was teaching\u00a0a seminar at Aikido de la Montagne, and to my 4th kyu eyes, it looked like magic. I remember seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sensei","category-shihan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}