Rare Video Footage

O Sensei M.M. Nakazono’s Visit to France 1992

Welcome to this rare footage of honored teacher, doctor, and world-ranked Aikido master, Mikoto Masahilo Nakazono, O Sensei.

This two part, archival video footage shows O Sensei Nakazono’s visit to France in 1985, as he offers an inaugural ceremony dedicating the new dojo of Sensei J. Akehiko Tavernier for the practice of Kototama and Aikido in the beautiful countryside of St-Remy, France.

In part one, O Sensei leads the Kototama sounds practice and ancient Jizo Bosatsu prayers of gratitude for the ancestors. In part two, he speaks about the Kototama Principle.

Sensei Tavernier translates into French for the community. 

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Part One: Ceremony at Dojo in St-Remy, France

Part Two: O Sensei’s talk after Ceremony in St-Remy, France

The principle of the Kototama is the principle of the human life dimension, and the highest human truth. This principle belongs to all human beings. Every human being has the same capacity.

-M.M. Nakazono, The Source of the Present Civilization, 1990

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O Sensei Nakazono lecturing

Hinomoto no Mikoto Masahilo Nakazono

(May 22, 1918 – October 8, 1994)