Serving as a strong background was the fact that many anecdotes describing superhuman feats were told in regard to the martial artist Morihei and his strengths, and these anecdotes were taken as facts by many aikido practitioners.
その背景には武術家盛平の強さに関して超人的なエピソードが幾つも伝わっており、それが多くの合気道家に事実として信じられていることが大きく作用している。