My personal favorite, although I was not there.
Patricia Yarrow’s Favorite
Author: david_yoshinaga
Joran Fagerlund’s Favorite
1990. Saito sensei at work in his extensive garden.
“gardening with Sensei”
Aviv Goldsmith’s Favorite
1992
Mehmet Dogu’s Favorite
Yvonne Thelwell’s Favorite
1980’s
Saito Shihan’s Favorite
1960’s. Stan Pranin: “This photo was a personal favorite of Morihiro Saito Shihan.”
Hitohiro in front of the Aiki Jinja
1998
Photo: Sonoko Tanaka for Aikido Journal
Daruma
September 1991. Hitohiro Sensei paints a daruma figure on the back of Joerg Beile’s t-shirt. The two on the left are Torbjoern and Anders, from Sweden, and sporting the classic summer dojo “bar ber” hairstyle. This is in his former restaurant, the “Yoshida Teshoku,” and now the home of uchi deshi visiting Iwama to train with him.
Photo: Joerg Beile
Summer
1989, summer. Joerg writes: “At the time going to the waterfall was mainly for taking a cold shower and only later people were doing it mostly for spiritual enlightenment. The advantage of the first approach: it was working every time! The guy on the right is Alan Roberts, one of the pioneers of the second approach.” Person in the back is unidentified.
Photo: unnamed photographer
Sayonara Nikyo
1989. Hitohiro, Teruo San, and Patricia Guerri from France, “who was handling the whisky bottle like a true expert!” and Hitohiro give Joerg Beile the infamous “Sayonara Nikkyo” in the dojo kitchen.
Photo: Alan Roberts, probably