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.
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.