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Kenji Shimizu is an aikido teacher and founder of the aikido style Tendoryu. Born 1940 in Fukuoka, Japan.
Shimizu had been training judo since childhood and held a 4th dan in this art when he changed to aikido in 1963. He then became one of the last personal students of the founder of aikido Morihei Ueshiba. After Ueshiba died in 1969, Shimizu sensei, then with a 7th dan in aikido, founded his own school in Tokyo named Tendoryu (ten: heaven, dō: way, ryū: school).
Tendoryu Aikido is characterized by its large and clear movements and convinces spectators and students by its naturalness and harmonic flow of motion.
 Shimizu Sensei with his wife. In 1991, Shimizu sensei received the 8th dan aikido from the Japanese Budo Federation. Since 1978, Shimizu sensei has regularly held seminars in Germany and other European countries.
In 1993 the German Tendoryu Society was founded.
In 2002 Shimizu sensei was invited to the autumn garden party at the imperial palace in Akasaka / Tōkyō
Shimizu sensei co-authored a book titled Zen and Aikido (ISBN 4900586137) with Shigeo Kamata.
Shimizu sensei received the award of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the year Heisei 14 (2002) for his work spreading aikidō abroad for many years.
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