[Home](https://tamura-shihan.org/en/) › Podcast # Podcast A podcast series about the life and teaching of Tamura Shihan, in thirteen episodes. In preparation. English edition 13 episodes planned Also in [français](https://tamura-shihan.org/fr/podcast/) and [日本語](https://tamura-shihan.org/ja/podcast/) The content comes from years of research for a forthcoming book on Tamura Shihan, built on interviews, archives and published sources. SI/AI voices. ## Episodes Episode titles are drafts. Episodes play on this page as they are released. 1. ### Arrival in Marseille (1964) 31 min On 13 November 1964 a young Japanese couple stepped onto the quay at Marseille, expecting a dojo in Paris and a stay of a few months; instead, O-Sensei’s uke began a life in France that would shape European aikido for 46 years. 2. ### The uchideshi years (1933–1961) Coming soon From his birth in Osaka to his years as a live-in student of O-Sensei. 3. ### Honolulu, 1961 Coming soon His first trip abroad, traveling with O-Sensei as his attendant. 4. ### Senpai and companions of the Hombu dojo years Coming soon The senpai and fellow live-in students Tamura trained, ate and lived alongside at the Hombu dojo in the 1950s. 5. ### Aikido in France Coming soon French aikido in 1964: a few hundred practitioners, the first Japanese teachers and the judo federation. 6. ### The split of the French federations (1982) Coming soon The break with the judo federation, and how French aikido divided into two federations. 7. ### His teaching in Europe Coming soon Where he taught across France and Europe, and the students and teachers whose lives he crossed. 8. ### Tamura in Africa Coming soon His trips to Africa. 9. ### Tamura’s aikido (technical) Coming soon Uke of O-Sensei, weapons, iaido and the other practices that shaped his technique. 10. ### Principles: from technique to etiquette Coming soon From showing technique to explaining principles: how his teaching evolved, with his books as milestones. 11. ### The Shumeikan Coming soon The dojo at Bras, home of the École Nationale d’Aïkido, from its founding in the early 1990s to its inauguration in 1995. 12. ### Tamura the man Coming soon Tamura off the mat: his family, macrobiotics, Zen and home life in Saint-Maximin. 13. ### Legacy (2010 → today) Coming soon His last seminars, his death in 2010, and what his students carry on today.