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  The mochi placed at the front of the Dojo for the New Year’s Day and the following days is called “Kagami Mochi”. Kagami mochi is made up of two flat round mochi with the smaller one placed atop the larger one with a daidai (a Japanese bitter orange), kombu and other offerings, per local customs and traditions, placed on …

  The Keiko Hajime event and a New Year’s gathering event were held to commemorate the arrival of the New Year. A day after these events, we received a sad news that Yoshimitsu Yamada Shihan, a pioneer of Aikikai Aikido in the U.S., had died. At the time of the United States Bicentennial, Aikikai Aikido in the U.S. was under …