Thank you, Dr. Goldsbury.
The text in question can be found at http://www.aikidosangenkai.org/blog/...ba-budo-kamae/ In a very pleasant but detailed way the author cites some problems with Stevens' translation.
This is an interesting document, which could be missing documentary evidence of how Ueshiba and his deshi, including Tomiki Kenji in Manchuria, ended up teaching aikibujutsu across a number of Imperial military facilities. The Imperial Army Toyama School was the site of the Army's physical education instructor school (and the Army band.... today at the park that occupies the heart of the old camp there's a large memorial stone to both), so it is logical that the more bureaucratic Army might request something in writing to provide to the various committees and bureaus involved in establishing policy and hiring unarmed combat instructors. The Toyama School-developed simple sword style derives its name from that camp where the committee developed the style for the Army.
Unfortunately for history, the capitulation of Japan left a lot of time for rear area Japanese military units to dispose of records before the Occupation forces landed; there are tales of days of roaring bonfires across camps like Toyama and the various Nakano camps (Military Police School and the infamous 'School for Spies' that masqueraded as a technical signal school), so the link beyond the book may well be broken forever. The folks that would have made such decisions would have been mid- to high-level military officers, hence in their 30's and older, so probably long gone.
Lance Gatling