Itsuo Tsuda

Itsuo Tsuda , born in 1914 in Korea and deceased in 1984, is the philosopher of the Ki.

Biography

Born in 1914 in a family from Samurai S become, with modernization Meiji, of the captains of industry, he revolts, at sixteen years, against the will of his father who intended it to become the heir to his fortune (right of seniority). Refusing to follow the ways all traced for him, it leaves its family and starts to rove to research freedom of thought.

A few years later, being reconciled with his father, it decides to come to France to make studies there. It will follow the teaching of Marcel Granet, sinologist, and of Marcel Mauss, sociologist, until the war and it will evoke in these terms the importance of this formation for his later work in Europe: “They learned to me, will write it in connection with its Masters, to release a fact in inextricable contexts, to question the established values. ”

In 1940, it is mobilized and must return to the Japan. After the war, while working at Air-France with Tokyo, its interest goes on the cultural aspects of Japan and he studies in particular the recitation of the No at Maître Kanze Kasetsu. He will explain in Not-To make It : “Japan, thanks to the distance which separates it from the European hearth, knew to keep its cultural autonomy. Let us call philosophy of the action the bases which underlie its traditions. The gasoline of the action, it is breathing, the breath, the ki . ”

It is also in the years of post-war period, around thirty years, that Itsuo Tsuda begins the training of the seitaï with Maître Noguchi, formation which lasts a score of years. It has forty-five years when it meets Maître Ueshiba, the founder of the Aikido, of which he will be the pupil until the death of this one in 1969.

In the foreword of the Not-to make Itsuo Tsuda tells the continuation: “Since the day when I had the revelation of the ki , of the breath (I had then more than forty years), the desire did not cease growing in me to express the inexpressible one, to communicate the incommunicable one. In 1970, at the fifty six years age, I leave my employee job and in an adventure without guarantee nor promise launches me. After having traversed the the United States, I arrive at Paris. ”

In Paris, it starts to write, is impassioned for this work, and starts to diffuse its manuscripts with the means of the edge; then a group of people, who had already organized a demonstration in her favor in 1969, invites it to use the association which they founded, which enables him to better know the climate of Europe, and to hold account of it. In 1973 its first book Not-To make It is published in the Mail of the Book.

The reading of its calendar of training courses of 1983, ten years later, gives an idea of the activity which it deployed to initiate people with the regenerating Movement and the respiratory Practice of Me Ueshiba a little everywhere in Europe. However, during all these years, Me Tsuda, deceased in 1984, always considered that the essence of its work was to write.

Itsuo Tsuda will propagate its ideas on the Ki through its practical conferences, its books, and two lesson, Katsugen and the Aikido.

Work

Itsuo Tsuda is the author of nine books written in French, gathered under the common title École of breathing . It milked there philosophy of the IQ, aikido, breathing…

School of breathing

Volume 1: Not to make . Paris: mail of the book, 1973,207 p. ISBN 2-7029-0065-8
Volume 2: the Way of the examination . Paris: mail of the book, 1975,183 p. ISBN 2-7029-0001-1
Volume 3: the Science of the private individual . Paris: mail of the book, 1976,154 p. ISBN 2-7029-0036-4
Volume 4: a . Paris: mail of the book, 1978,157 p. ISBN 2-7029-0068-2
Volume 5: the Dialog of silence . Paris: mail of the book, 1979,156 p. ISBN 2-7029-0088-7
Volume 6: the unstable Triangle . Paris: mail of the book, 1980,155 p. ISBN 2-7029-0104-2
Volume 7: Even if I do not think, I am . Paris: mail of the book, 1981,158 p. ISBN 2-7029-0123-9
Volume 8: the Way of the Gods . Paris: mail of the book, 1982,156 p. ISBN 2-7029-0128-X
Volume 9: Vis-a-vis science . Paris: mail of the book, 1983,152 p. ISBN 2-7029-0136-0

Testimony

" Governed Soavi, you were raises direct of Me Tsuda. Speak to me a little him.

It was a simple man. We called it simply Mr Tsuda. Myself, I started to call it Master only in the last years. He made a point much of being considered before just like a philosopher and a writer. Its research was personal. When it was met, one realized of his strong personality immediately, but, at the same time, it was Asian like another. If one crossed it in the street, one did not realize that he was an expert in martial arts, he seemed a Japanese like so many others. At all events, on the tatamis, it was a discovery. Tsuda was addressed to each person directly, it never spoke in general. The morning after the aikido we took the coffee together and, there, he told us stories while addressing himself to all; but each time, we understood that he wanted to reach certain people in particular. What characterized it was especially the simplicité."

The School Itsuo Tsuda

The purpose of the School Itsuo Tsuda is to bring together in school the individuals who recognize themselves in what is before a a whole practical philosophy, such as it is in particular expressed in the works of Master Itsuo Tsuda. The School is not a higher authority, but a possibility of fastening to a current of thought, with a common work. For this purpose, it affiliates the individuals either as individual member, or as member with a recognized group. Can be recognized the groups of individuals working in this spirit and there grateful. Association works in collaboration with its technical adviser, Régis Soavi.

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See too

External bonds

School Itsuo Tsuda, dojo in France: Paris, Toulouse, the Farmhouse of Azil; in Italy: Milano and Ancona.
School of breathing, dojo of Tsuda Master, Paris (with recordings: What aikido? by Tsuda).
the seitai and Itsuo Tsuda by Andréine and Bernard Bel.
Introduction to the practice of the seitai, Tsuda line.
What Katsugen? by Yves the Smallone.
Itsuo Tsuda in aikidojournal.

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