Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Aiki-jo is the name given specifically to the set of martial art techniques practiced with a jo (a wooden staff about four feet long), practiced according to the principles of aikido, taught first by Morihei Ueshiba (aikido's founder), then further developed by Morihiro Saito, one of Ueshiba's most prominent students. Aiki-jo is currently most practiced in the Iwama Shin-Shin Aiki Shuren-kai. Much of the aiki-jo syllabus was developed by Morihei Ueshiba (Ueshiba Morihei, 1883–1969) at his dojo in Iwama, Japan, at the same time he developed aikido's sword training (called aiki-ken). It is well documented that Ueshiba studied several different styles of martial arts, including the art of the spear (sojutsu). The aiki-jo techniques taught by Ueshiba were a distillation and modification of that training, with an emphasis upon the use of the jo as a method for the refinement of one's empty-handed aikido techniques.

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