Daniel Zoot is an American living in Aiichi prefecture, Japan. He studies Kendo, Jukendo and Japanese. He is originally from Chicago, and started learning Kendo at the Buddhist Temple of Chicago Junior Kendo Dojo.
Every year, the kendo community in Aomori conducts two tachikiri events. Tachikiri is often rendered in English as “stand all the way training.” Even has a long time practitioner of kendo, the first time I got to witness tachikiri keiko, I would have been tempted to describe it as “loser stays in” kendo training. Essentially […]
“Motomereba Mugendai” (求めれば無限大) is my favorite Kendo book. It is a small, easily readable book composed of 100 short essays on Kendo training and leadership topics. One of the things I like about it (in addition to the uncomplicated, straightforward word choice and sentence structure) is the way the author has divided the book in […]