{"id":6,"date":"2017-10-03T13:17:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T13:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-02-06T04:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:33:48","slug":"past-seminars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/past-seminars\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Edinburgh Kendo Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/files\/2024\/08\/2024-07-edinburgh-seminar6-644x363.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/files\/2024\/08\/2024-07-edinburgh-seminar6-644x363.jpeg 644w, https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/files\/2024\/08\/2024-07-edinburgh-seminar6-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/files\/2024\/08\/2024-07-edinburgh-seminar6-768x433.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/files\/2024\/08\/2024-07-edinburgh-seminar6.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2024 seminar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kenshi247.net\/about\/\">George<\/a> ran Edinburgh kendo club between 2000 and 2003, before leaving for Japan to pursue his passion of kendo. He has been travelling back to Edinburgh from Osaka on-and-off and doing kendo there since 2008, including running four seminars. From 2017, however, Edinburgh Kendo Club and George decided to make the seminar a more &#8220;official&#8221; yearly event. In summer 2018 (the 10th year he has been travelling back to Edinburgh, and the 30th anniversary of kendo in Edinburgh) he brought back Yano sensei, a professional police hachidan, with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that up until and including 2017 the seminars have been mostly private affairs &#8211; mainly for Edinburgh Kendo Club, Scottish kenshi, and friends. From 2018 onwards the event is open to all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please check out seminar-related media and links below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/blog\/2025\/07\/30\/edinburgh-kendo-seminar-2025\/\">2025<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/blog\/2024\/08\/21\/edinburgh-kendo-seminar-2024\/\">2024<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/21\/edinburgh-kendo-seminar-2023\/\">2023<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021-2022 (unable to hold due to pandemic)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020 (cancelled due to pandemic)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P7i3-3XS\">2019<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/edinburgh-kendo-seminar-2018\/\">2018<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kenshi247.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/29\/kenshi-247-seminar-in-scotland\/\">2017<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/z51j0_6EVkw\">video here<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kenshi247.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/12\/eikenkai-edinburgh-august-2014\/\">2014<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kenshi247.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/13\/2012-eikenkai-in-scotland\/\">2012 <\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kenshi247.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/21\/august-2010\/\">2010<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008 <small><em>(Technically a visit not a seminar!)<\/em><\/small><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pictures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:65.92245%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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He has been travelling back to Edinburgh from Osaka on-and-off and doing kendo there since 2008, including running four seminars. From 2017, however, Edinburgh Kendo Club and George decided to make the seminar a more &#8220;official&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/past-seminars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Past Edinburgh Kendo Seminars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshi247.net\/edinburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}