Tags: Martial Artist.
Homma Gaku (本間 学 Honma Gaku) born May 12 1950 is an aikido teacher and direct student of the founder Morihei Ueshiba.He is an author; the books Children and the Martial Arts and Aikido for Life are his most prominent publications.Homma whose father was a Shinto priest and an officer in the Japanese Imperial Army during the war was born in Akita Prefecture. According to Homma at the age of 14 he was sent by his father to train in Iwama under aikido founder Ueshiba Morihei.