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The All Japan Kendo Championship is regarded as the most prestigious kendo championship. Despite it being the national championship for only Japanese kendōka, kendo practitioners all over the world consider the All Japan Kendo Championship as the championship with the highest level of competitive kendo. The World Kendo Championships have been ...
France After the end of World War II, many masters of kendo visited France and introduced kendo in the 1950s. The first French kendo championship was held in 1959. Comité National de Kendo; Georgia (country) Kendo is promoted by the Georgian Kendo Association. Germany Deutscher Kendobund e.V; Greece is promoted by the Hellenic Kendo Iaido ...
The All Japan Kendo Championships (全日本剣道選手権大会, Zennihon kendō senshuken taikai) is a kendo tournament held every year in Japan. The men's tournament is held at Nippon Budokan on 3 November, on Culture Day .
The All Japan Kendo Enbu Taikai is the oldest, most traditional, and most prestigious Kendo event in both Japan and the world. In addition to the above competitions and events, which cater to a select group of practitioners (such as professional athletes or high-ranking practitioners), the AJKF also organizes open events for all practitioners ...
Kendo Nagasaki is a professional wrestling stage name, ... He also toured Japan in 1968 (under the alternative ring name Mr Guillotine) and North America in 1972, ...
Kenjutsu originated with the samurai class of feudal Japan, [2] and the word itself means "methods, techniques, and the art of the Japanese sword". This is opposed to kendo , which means "the way of the sword" and uses a bamboo sword ( shinai ) and protective armour ( bōgu ).
These kata are officially known as the "All Japan Kendo Federation Iai" (全日本剣道連盟居合, Zen Nippon Kendō Renmei Iai), or Zen Ken Ren Iai (全剣連居合) and commonly referred to as seitei or seitei-gata. [1] The twelve seitei-gata are standardised for the tuition, promotion and propagation of iaido within the kendo federations
Noma Dōjō (野間道場) is a privately owned kendo training hall, or dōjō, located in Tokyo's Bunkyo ward close to Gokoku-ji. The original Noma Dojo was established in 1925 by Seiji Noma, founder of the Kodansha publishing house, but demolished by the company in late 2007 and replaced with a modern training hall in a neighbouring office ...