Shihan Tadashi Komenoi (7th Dan)
Founder and Patron - Sri Lanka Aikido Association

Shihan Tadashi Komenoi was born in 1948. He started to practice Aikido when he was 18 years old at his university Tokyo Merchant Marine’s Aikido club in Tokyo. He learned the art under Shihan Kosaku Iwakiri who was an Uchideshi (live in Student) of ‘O Sensei’.
Shihan Komenoi was the chief instructor at Makati Aikido Club from 1988 -1993 period. This was when he lived at Philippines as an expat executive for the Japanese company he was working. He paved the way with much fame and growth of Aikido in the club and overall Philippines.
When the company selected him as the country manager for Sri Lanka, he had move to Sri Lanka for working purposes. Shihan Komenoi started living here and formed the Sri Lanka Aikido Association (Sri Lanka Aikikai) in year 2001. He was living in Sri Lanka until his retirement in year 2011 completing almost a decade with Sri Lanka Aikido Association, thus being our founder and patron of the Association.
Shihan Tadashi Komenoi received Foreign Minister’s commendation awarded by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 2011 for his outstanding contribution in promoting Aikido in Sri Lanka.