ZNKR Senshuken Taikai – homepage

The Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei (ZNKR, in English: All Japan Kendo Federation, AJKF) has started a dedicated page for the Senshuken Taikai (All Japan Championships) and associated youtube page today.

It features a video of the final of the first Championshipsm, which was won by Sakakibara (榊原 正), a 33 year old renshi from Aiichi prefecture in 1953. He died a hanshi on the 9th of April 2006 at the age of 86.

Hopefully they will be updating new videos regularly.

Senshuken Taikai homepage: http://www.kendo.or.jp/champ/
YouTube page: http://jp.youtube.com/ZennipponKendoRenmei/

Picture from the above site.

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George is based in Osaka, Japan. He is the founder and chief editor of kenshi247.net, is a high school kendo club coach, studies classical Japanese martial arts, and runs his own keikokai (eikenkai.net). When he is not in the dojo you can find him reading books on the history of kendo and its related arts. He is currently designing and publishing kendo related books (see kendo-book.com) while studying his second degree - a BA in History from London University.

One Response to ZNKR Senshuken Taikai – homepage

  • Usagi San

    I don’t get it.
    I mean, I’ve been a fan of japanese advertising since day one of my 20 years as a creative in the business. But sometimes, I just don’t get it… take the ilustration above for instance. They (the ZNKR) get someone to specificly create a (well… very nice) ilustration and then they go and do the poster of championships like this:
    http://www.kendo.or.jp/news/200811_champ_poster.html
    Oh man.

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