Kisshomaru Ueshiba was born on June the 27th 1921, in Ayabe near Tokyo.  He was the third son of the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba , and Hatsu  Ueshiba.

After obtaining his Political Sciences diploma (University of Wasada, 1946), he was   named technical director of the Hombu Dojo, "Hombu dojo cho", by his father; the   Hombu Dojo is the world's Aikido center in Tokyo.

After having worked for a Security company for a few years, he quitted his job in 1955   and dedicated himself exclusively to the developement of the Aikikai. He published his   first book on Aikido, that would be a succes. This encouraged him to carry on. 20 books of great succes about him and his art have been written and published.

In 1963, Kisshomaru left Japan for the first time and started to travel to USA and   Europe. All his efforts allowed him develop the Aikikai and to make it a worldwide   known and respected organisation.

In 1967 he became thé président of the Aïkikaï fondation, and in 1969, he took his   fathers succesion. He then gradually modified, reduced and normalised thé whole of the Aikido techniques. It resulted a compound of much more fluid techniques, Ki No Nagare,   that have become a standard in the Aikido Dojos around the world.

He, thus, gave up the Ki Hon style of his father, as well as all the more complex   techniques he judged would be to difficult to learn or understand for the normal   Aikidoka.

            He died on January thé 4t" 1999, aged 77.