Happy 2013! For the first post of the new year I spent some time looking back af old kendo pictures, some from books, others that I picked up randomly on the web. I really enjoy looking at these old pics so I’d like to present a handful of them here (the earliest picture is from 1906). Its good to see and reflect on what changes there has been to kendo over the past century or so, as well as whats stayed more-or-less the same.
If kenshi247 readers have any high quality kendo pics from before WWII and are willing to share, please get in touch!
1906 – Navy ship
1910 – Navy ship
1914 – university kendo club
1917 – Tokyo shihan gakko
1917
1930 – page from a kendo manual
1930s-40s (probably) – army kendo practise
1934 – from kendo manual
Probably Taisho period
Probably Taisho period
Probably Taisho period
1943 – from kids kendo manual
