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Irimi 入身

Your aikido appinspired by Tamura Shihan

A mobile app for aikidoka who practice in the line of Tamura Nobuyoshi Shihan: his life, his voice, the words of the mat, and a record of your own path.

Irimi is an aikido app inspired by Tamura Shihan. It is not only about him, and it is not part of this website. It is for aikidoka, especially in Aikikai and Tamura-lineage dojos, and for anyone curious about his teaching.

Design mockup of the Irimi home screen on a phone: the red 田 seal, the name Irimi with 入身, the purpose line, a card for Tamura Nobuyoshi Shihan, a Word of the day card for Irimi, and a placeholder listening bar.
App Homepage

Inside the app

Biography

His life in six short chapters, from Osaka to his dojo at Bras and his legacy.

Audio

An audio miniseries and readings, in preparation. See also the Podcast page of this site.

Concepts

Japanese terms of aikido, each with its kanji, its reading and a plain definition. Then come Tamura’s own words from his book Aïkido (1986), with page references. The definitions are plain explanations, not his words.

The sections: the ten Foundations, Katame Waza, Nage Waza, Forms of Practice, Attacks, Weapons, Movement and Etiquette Vocabulary. On the Home screen, a Word of the day comes from the ten Foundations.

“The law of irimi is the root of aikido.”

Tamura Nobuyoshi, Aïkido (1986), from French[68]

Profile

Your Aikikai and Yudansha identification: organization, dojo and chief instructor. Your Dan record. The seminars and courses you attended.

Planned: adding a course from a photo of a page of your Yudansha Book.

Design mockups

Design mockup of a Biography chapter screen: chapter III, Arrival in France, with an ink-wash illustration of a liner at sea, two short paragraphs and a bar to play a book excerpt.
Biography: one of six short chapters.
Design mockup of the Audio screen: the miniseries on the life of Tamura Shihan, with placeholder episodes, and short readings from the book.
Audio: the miniseries and readings.
Design mockup of the Concepts screen for the ten Foundations: each term with its kanji, its reading and a short gloss.
Concepts: the ten Foundations, with kanji and reading.
Design mockup of the Profile screen with Tamura Shihan’s record from public sources: a greyscale portrait of him, his name in Japanese, birth and death, nationality, entry to the Hombu Dojo, the FFAB, his dojo in Bras and his teacher, with links to his Dan record and landmark courses.
Profile: Tamura Shihan’s own record, from public sources.

Portrait in the Profile mockup: Janwikifoto, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, converted to greyscale and cropped.

Download

Irimi is in development. It will come to Android first, then to iOS.

Coming soon

Irimi is not endorsed by the Aikikai, the FFAB or any other organization. The images on this page are design mockups, not the finished app. The episodes and durations shown in them are placeholders. The profile shows Tamura Shihan’s record from public sources.