Mitsunari Kanai

Japanese aikidoka

金井満也

Born

1939, Manchuria

Died

28 March 2004, Canada

Sport

aikido

Occupation

aikidoka

Mitsunari Kanai (1939 – March 28, 2004) was an aikido and iaido teacher born in Japan, who spent most of his teaching career in the United States. He was an 8th dan teacher with the title shihan in the organisation Aikikai.

Teachers

• Morihei Ueshiba

External links

• Wikipedia
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q6883305 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.