有關淺井先生的回憶
陳宏宗主席師範
2007年1月26日
我練過很多的武術道，認爲空手道是最好的。
相撲、柔道（三段）、劍道三段，白鶴拳練了60多年，30多嵗的時候，讀了有關空手道的書，很感興趣。
35嵗的時候，妹妹把淺井先生和空手道帶到臺灣來。
白鶴拳的老師林元龍先生，單單看到淺井先生的?法就很受感動，他?，武術道中空手道最棒，特別是“淺井”的空手道很合理，他一定會在世界上受歡迎。從那時已經過了50年而成爲事實。
我最深的印象是，那天在演武的時候，淺井先生向我說來進攻吧，我就照他的話做了，但是完全上是尊手。那時聽見背後自認有武術心得的人在大聲喊叫，我以爲是他們發怒了，回頭一看，其實是感動而發出驚嘆聲，本來他們心想這上過20几嵗的小年輕人“有什么了上起的”。
淺井先生真是格鬥技術的天才，我練習七節鞭十多年還沒有完全掌握，淺井先生兩周就完整地掌握了，大家都很吃驚，
其他很多武器也是馬上就修好。
淺井先生去世后，現在還在電腦的YouTube上活躍著，向世界上的空手道愛好家示範空手道的技術，真的很惋惜，再有十年，他再活上十年，就能改變世界空手道，上理解淺井空手道的人覺得淺井空手道很難，但因爲很難才需要?命練習，上練習所以就很難。
真的很遺憾，很希望他能多活十年。
現在他留下的弟子們一定要努力實踐淺井先生所教誨的東西。
剛成爲指導員會新成員的城所俊行先生（六段）的回憶
2007年1月
我20歳考升段審査的得意形時，在正中間坐著的審査長淺井先生上看我的臉，大體上視線總是朝下，只看我的脚。偶爾視線向上看我一眼，那情況我記得很深。由我們的水平來説只能在一年一兩次大會時見到淺井先生在最後的決勝時，出來做審判的樣子。
後來問淺井先生，爲何審査時只看脚，他説，看脚就知道這人的水平，又?那時正好在研究脚的技術。
那時的審判員大家有各種各樣的審判姿態。很多淺井先生的後輩指導員在道場内常常很高興地模倣淺井先生獨特的審判姿勢。
最近兩三年前，先生這樣説明，他手掌向上判分數時，就是爲了表達尊那選手努力比賽而取得的成績表示敬意而贈送分數的意思，並上單是習慣動作，這話給我留下了很深的印象。
他很細心又很親切地向我説明，手掌向上和手掌向下，意思大爲上同，審判的時候手掌是應該向上的。
關於淺井先生的空手道技術，我在日本本部道場練習的時候，有幾位老師在那兒説，多数的人可能上相信淺井先生的技術的厲害，從尊手踏來的脚下穿過去，又會踏上了尊手的膝蓋上越過頭，他的鞭拳我上知道有何用，那些老師説三、四塊木板很輕松地一下子就能打破。淺井先生的一舉一動都成爲傳説。
陳宏宗先生説，淺井先生如果能再活上十年就能改變日本和世界的空手道。
淺井先生的空手道，確實有利用關節的技術，毎次淺井先生在臺灣指導空手道時（我也在臺灣），就直接面尊面教我練尊打技術，毎次可以體驗到快速而來的技術，那微妙的一刹那是無法企及的技術，從那微妙的刹那開始擴展很多技術。
我想尊打的時候淺井先生絶尊沒有想過後退。
我想最理解淺井先生的技術的人，是陳宏宗先生。所以我要在陳先生那裏認真練習，希望能接近淺井先生的技術，這就是我的空手道之路。
有位空手道的前輩尊我説過，他很驚訝，淺井先生在飛機中也在練習。
2007.1月 林茂椿 先生
1980年「空手道同門兄弟會」的入室弟子
春、夏、秋、冬(四季)、忠、孝、仁、愛、信、義、和、平(八徳)，
12名聚會時，有位兄弟遲遲未來，兄弟們罵聲連連，
淺井老師説：『義兄弟，須比親兄弟還親，称們發現有人未到，
不僅不去了解：是否發生甚麼事，是否有問題發生，無人關心
卻在此抱怨，那還有甚麼「義」存在？』。
這段話，一直留在我心中。
後來也證實了，那個兄弟，財務出問題(我們兄弟幫他解決)。
又關於武術界拜師後：
入門：初級，三年〜五年；
登堂：十年以上；
入室：得意門生，三十年〜一生。
大概是這樣。
ハワイのエドワード藤原さんのトークからの抜粋を紹介します。
藤原さんは42年の間、私達がどこの国にいても、毎年6月7日マスター浅井の誕生日と、クリスマス、そしてお正月には必ずハワイからお祝いのお電話をくださいました。マスター浅井が亡くなった今もです。彼の家にはマスター浅井の遺品がいろいろと、最後に吸ったタバコの吸殻まで、ガラスのケースに入れて陳列され、浅井哲彦ミニ記念館さながらです。
藤原さんのトークを翻訳すると次の通りです。
私は神様のお陰で、21歳、大学生の時、浅井先生に会いました。一番最初に先生に会ったのは、空手の道場でした。私は一生懸命練習し、稽古が終って休んでいると、浅井先生が私のところへ歩みよって、自己紹介をし、次からはそんなに頑張ってやらないで気楽にやりなさい、と言われました。それが先生との出会いです。私は今62歳ですが、42年間空手を続けています。私の心に浅井先生は何時でもいらっしゃいます。思い出はいっぱいありますが、私が糖尿病にかかって、病気だから空手の練習はできないと何回も言ったのに、全然聞き入れてくれないので、とうとう腹が立って「今からこの薬を捨てて空手の練習をするけど、もし私に何かあったら死ぬかもしれないけど、そのときはあなたのせいだからね」と言って、腹をたてながら、辛い稽古を続けました。そうしたら、私の糖尿病と高血圧がなくなっていました。先生は私にとても優しくしてくれました。浅井先生はグチを言わず、この40数年の間、たくさんのことを教えてくれました。若い時はあまり理解できなかったのですが、今になって、解りました。いろいろ先生の教えを思い出して、空手を続けています。私にとって神様は一番大事です。その神様に私は毎日、私の家族と浅井先生のことと、奥さんや家族のことを守ってくださる様にお祈りしています。
「空手道就是我的人生」蘇志成
1969年，參加空手道練習第一堂課，就是淺井老師教導，
教室擠滿了學生，連伸手都沒辦法。
經歴多年，剩下的舊學員寥寥無幾，經得起時間的考驗真不容易。
我因有空手道專長，進入一家工廠，當安全室主任，認識了妻子。
1979年，離開工廠，開設空手道館，當專業教練至今。
練習空手道，淺井老師給我重大的啓示。
「練習空手道要踏實不間斷的努力鍛鍊，並須用心思考」，
那不只是練習空手道，對於做人處事皆應如此，此觀念，
支持我在空手道及人生路上，迄今不變，影響我的一生。
毎次回憶淺井老師，件件難忘。
我的一生，只有空手道始終如一。
淺井老師的空手道技術及風格部分，能看得到。
但，絕對做不到。因為，他的空手道已進入藝術境界。
淺井老師平生希望能入深山修煉，但因巡迴各國，
教練空手道，時間上無法實現。
本人自2001年迄今6年(現11年)，進入深山鍛鍊，
傳承淺井老師的奧秘氣式空手道，現在，不但懷念他而必須繼承
淺井老師的遺志，毎日練6個鐘頭，繼續走在空手道之路。
宋一信先生2007.1.25. 採訪於台灣、台中市
第一次看到淺井老師時，我是五歳，和我父親和淺井太太到我家，
那時是1967年。
以後，父親帶我到台中本部道場開始練習空手道，那時淺井老師在夏威夷，所以由陳宏宗老師和我父親教導空手道，又帶我去陳宏宗老師任教的小學，學習空手道。
因那時，陳老師在那小學當訓導主任，又當體育老師，而他在體育課從一年級就教空手道。之後，我到台中本部的露天道場練習。
我和淺井老師，曾經有空手道的對談。
我有問起淺井老師：「為什麼日本選手會那麼強？」
淺井老師向我説明：他訓練選手是讓他們練習時，當對方直撃過來的
時候，絶對不用手去擋開，而將臉部一辺進入一辺甩開對方的直撃。我聽到後，非常驚訝：這麼危險的技術！
但淺井老師説：「平時有這樣的訓練，比賽時就不會緊張，就會很
不在意地對抗對手。」
台灣沒有人在講解「SEME(攻)的技術」，我問了淺井老師這問題，而得到淺井老師的解釋，我對於「SEME(攻)」的問題：就解決了。
我和淺井老師，長年的接觸，發現練武術的高段人，必需像淺井老師那麼溫柔、細心、隨和，讓大家易於親近才對。這一點我認為最要緊。
(因我常帶孩子在身辺看他，他對待我孩子和他在教導小孩子的教法一樣那麼溫柔、幽默) (我的小孩常常談起淺井老師)。
今天中華民國空手道連盟的創意是基於父親不要忘記淺井老師的功勞，而希望能繼續接受淺井老師的教導而成立的。
今年5月份在總統盃空手道比賽大會之後，就要辦淺井盃比賽「全國精英空手道比賽大會」。
中華民國空手道連盟，紀念台灣松導流宗師淺井哲彦所老師的
淺井盃比賽會。
在台灣，這樣的比賽會是第一次的。
其目的，在於通過這樣的比賽，使人人都能看到空手道的真義。
(我父親至今還是常常提起淺井老師所説的話：「不要輸自己」，
這句話他常常傳給他的學生。)
Mr. Vincenzo Serao
2011年9月
Dears Mrs KEIKO ASAI, J have to thank you for the kindness of your compliments towards us. You can use the letter and the pictures as you want. For us, it is a privilege to find space on your website IJKA ASAI!
Warm greetings
Vincenzo Serao
Hayabusakan Napoli
ITALIA
Dear Mrs Keiko Asai, it has been a huge pleasure to hear that my letter has been much liked by you and this fills with joy both j and all my friends. For us everybody it was a duty to show our gratefullness for all that Asai Sensei has given us with his teaching and we will keep on trasmetting with enthusiasm and all our strenghts. J hope heartily to be able to meet it possible to show as soon as possible from neighbour all my estimate and that of my friends than with me spent memorable moments with our darling Asai Sensei Shuseki Shihan. With estimate best regards
Vincenzo Serao
P.S. Even J pretty good writing English! J am sending some pictures for me recognize.
Naples, September 10 th 2011
Dear Mrs. KEIKO ASAI
it is a great honour for me and all of my friends from Naples to write this letter, hoping it has a meaning for you. My name is Vincenzo Serao, I live in Italy, in Naples and great has been the privilege to learn the teachings of our beloved Asai Sensei, Shuseki Shihan for several years, since 1993.
In 1988 we had decided to come to Japan, to Tokyo, near the Hombu Dojo to personally meet Asai Sensei, at that time become the leader of the old JKA after Nakayama Sensei’s death. His fame was already great and I perceived that in Him there was something different, special and that, despite what the others did, he went over the conventional limits. He was really Unique! I couldn’t manage to get to Japan, but two dear friends of mine reached Tokyo in February 1988. They were welcomed by Asai Sensei with great hospitality and for 40 days they stayed in the Hombu Dojo, becoming more and more confidential friends with Him. When they came back, they gave me as a gift a book with dedication signed by Asai Shihan that I jealously preserve together with so many other things I had from Him in all these years and most of all the DOJO KUN, personally written by Him.
Two years passed and to our great and glad surprise, we directly received from Asai the invitation to participate in the World Championship in Dubai, in the Arabic Emirates. For us it was above all the occasion of a wonderful adventure we would never dream could come true, and what’s more for free! In that occasion I finally had the honor to personally meet our beloved Sensei and everything I had thought about Him exceeded anything I had previously imagined.
Subsequently, after a few years and precisely for the first time for us in 1993, thanks to the dear and good Bruno Koller, who is really worthy, first of all for have given us the possibility to meet Asai Shuseki Shihan in the near Switzerland, all of us have had the fortune to be able to profit some teachings of the Teacher, the qual thing is repeated for many years up to the fatal event. I have to say that every time that we met there it was a great surprise; in fact, as soon as it perceived one of our group it drew near and with the finger it pointed out how much we were and every time that one of us presented Asai Sensei it smiled happy the hand bringing himself to the forehead. It was his way to give us a pleasant welcome. I still remember when in 2004, during a seminar in Switzerland, we went to do it visits him in his room in the hotel three dear friends of mine and I where Asai Sensei, together with a Japanese student that had just come from England, he was waiting us. Brought him a gift for her Mrs. Keiko Asai and him in joky tone said that the gifts had to do only them to Him, then started laughing!
In that occasion we spoke of as things, among which the great project that had in mind for his organization and of the great championship of the world that intended to realize in Taiwan. Then he asked us if we went to make shopping together with Him, because it had to purchase some gifts for his wife and I can say only that in that occasion we bathed there as fishes so it rained. In Switzerland it always rains, especially in summer! Who knows because? However been worth to go out with the our dear Sensei. What an honour for us!
Sees Mrs. Asai, I could write so many things but that to which I hold a lot to make to know to you and who will read this letter it is that we of the Neapolitan group, that has followed for so many years Asai Sensei, have independently done him with discretion and humility to be tied up or less to any organization or for anybody else interest. I confirm that what pushed us to follow the affectionate bond it was him and of great trust and respect in his dowries is technical, to which nobody can ever draw near and not even to imitate, but above all his humanity and the relationship that he knew how to establish with whoever it respected him. Asai Sensei has never asked us to what organization we belonged neither what pits our degree. I know only that during his seminars, at the end of the daily lesson, it was usual to hold a private lesson for little people and He always wanted that us Neapolitan we were present and you participate in his lessons. We in Naples am not many the true apprentices of the martial art, since the sporting Karate has had some the upper hand, as after all in Italy, but I can assure that we of our group will always follow the teachings traced by our Shuseki Shihan Asai Sensei and for the whole life we will keep on practising and to divulge the ASAI-RYU. I Wish its Organization and you, the IJKA ASAI a marvellous future that can spread all over the world really, as it was the desire of the dear Asai.
Hoping to meet you as soon as possible, sincerely yours
Vincenzo Serao
HAYABUSAKAN NAPOLI
ITALY
Radio Program「ああ我が人生空手道」
Also, we are going to start a new radio program hosted by I.J.K.A.. The show is called “My Life: Karate Journey,” and it will introduce not only Tetsuhiko Asai’s karate life, but also those people who shared a karate life with him. Currently we are looking for more materials to make the show more realistic and robust. If you have:
- Your personal experiences about Tetsuhiko Asai
- Anything related to Asai Sensei’s karate (advice, thoughts, actual lessons etc.)
- Videos and photos
We will air the stories on our radio show, with a mention of your karate-dojo and/or your name. This is to commemorate and celebrate Asai Shihan and his love for karate, so the karate styles or organizations do not matter. Tetsuhiko Asai’s biography movie about his karate filled life is in the production plan. The making of this radio show will be an important part of this movie.
If you have any questions please contact us at info@ijka.jp. Thank you again for your support and understanding. I look forward to hearing from you very soon.
