Seimeikan Aikido History

1985 - 2003

Seimeikan Aikido

Seimeikan Dojo was established in 1985 as a member of the International Yoshinkai Aikido Federation. Seimeikan's Head Instructor was Mitsugoro Karasawa who studied directly under Gozo Shioda, Founder of Yoshinkan style. Karasawa Sensei is a seventh dan black belt and has over 35 years of teaching and Aikido involvement. Literally the word SEIMEIKAN translates as:
     SEI means pure,
     MEI means light up,
     KAN means house;
therefore a place in which to light up or reveal your purity.
The intention in creating SEIMEIKAN was to provide a place where we could train our minds and bodies, to create a true spirit of harmony and to ultimately create better human beings both mentally and physically.