Hisae Lynch
Hisae Kamata started aikido at the Yoshinkan Hombu Dojo in Tokyo at the
age of 20. Training every day she was rapidly promoted to sandan and sent
out by Shioda Kancho to instruct students at the Aikoku Gakuen Women's College
and staff at the prestigious Mitsukoshi Department Store in Tokyo. She was
a full-time office assistant in the Yoshinkan Hombu Dojo for several years
and regularly participated in Yoshinkan demonstrations.
When David Lynch ended his 18-month stint as an uchideshi in the Yoshinkan in 1965 Hisae followed him to New Zealand and they were married in Auckland in April that year. Hisae was very active in teaching and demonstrating aikido in Auckland for many years and helped to achieve a vast amount of publicity in magazines, newspapers and on television.
David
and Hisae organised two, week-long demonstrations by Japanese high-ranking
masters in the main arena of the Easter Showgrounds before an audience of
many thousands.
Hisae practises ikebana and is a counsellor in the Seicho no Ie truth movement, a Japanese school of meditation with historical links to aikido.
David and Hisae have completed a new dojo on their country property near Whitianga on the Coromandel Peninsula, for weekend and other training camps. Aikido students from around New Zealand and other parts of the world are able to train in the midst of Coromandel's beautiful natural environment and focus exclusively on aikido for varying periods of time.
Acknowlegements
Photographs and biographical information kindly provided by David and Hisae Lynch, February 2007.
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