In setting out to write this story of my time in Iwama, my exposure to Aikido and to living in Japan. I recount a life being lived in O Sensei’s dojo as an uchideshi, a live-in apprentice and Aikido student of Morihiro Saito Shihan, and in Iwama as a sotodeshi, living outside of the dojo, a factual biographical sketch of the time-period from 1987 to 1993.
