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Held a U.S. gasshuku for Kaminoda Sensei’s students in D.C. over the weekend of July 23-25. Over the course of the three days 25 of us practiced jodo, kusarigama, kenjutsu and tanjo together. Photos at the link...
Dan is just back from the Kyoto kobudo enbu. The Budokuden is beautiful and the budo that he saw there was amazing. Photos at the link:
http://www.shindomusoryu.org/page17/page17.html
The Capital Area Jodokai have performed in two Cherry Blossom enbu in as many weeks. April 3 found us at the Silver Spring, Maryland “Big Cherry Festival” and April 10 we appeared at the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. While not our only public performances, the Cherry Blossom enbu are really special for us. (Photo above of cherry blossoms and Jefferson Memorial by our friend Carl Jenkins.)
Link to photos (by T. Nang & Alfred Campa) of the DC Enbu:
http://www.shindomusoryu.org/page15/page15.html
Link to photos (by T. Nang) of the Silver Spring Enbu:
http://www.shindomusoryu.org/page16/page16.html
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Happy Chinese New
Year! The past year was a good one for the Capital
Area Jodokai and for our friends of the Go Dai Ko
Jodokai in Milwaukee. In addition to Claude Gilmore
(photo below) and Karen Watson of Milwaukee receiving
their oku iri sho in Shindo Muso Ryu jodo, Corey
Comstock of Washington, D.C. received moku roku in
Isshin Ryu Kusarigama from Kaminoda Sensei.
The Nihon Jodokai conducted their annual opening embu at the Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo on January 7. Joining Kaminoda Sensei were senior members from the Tendai Ryu naginata school.
2009 Entries
On September 19, the Capital Area Jodokai held a small embu for several distinguished guests, including Kishimoto Sensei and his wife Sayaka-san and their son Kazu and Motohasi-san with his wife Akiko-san and their baby son, Itsuki. They are colleagues and family members who work with one of our members. We took a celebratory photo afterwards to mark the day.
24 jodo players gathered in Milwaukee over the weekend of July 25 to share our understanding of Kaminoda Sensei’s jodo instruction. We worked on tanjo and jo kata at a local school gym on Saturday as well as smaller practices at the Fudoshin dojo of our host, Rich Friman both Friday and again on Sunday. The Texas-shu and Capital Area jodokai were well represented, but the majority of participants were from Wisconsin. While not everyone could attend every session, I think everyone had fun and I know they showed great improvement. Some group photos can be found here--including some from a mini-embu we did on Saturday which was the first jodo embu ever for 8 participants:
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The jodokai performed at “Swordfest” on June 20, hosted at the Capital Area Budokai dojo in Alexandria. Performances were turned in by our group and all the other arts of the Capital Area Budokai. David Hall’s Hobyokan dojo turned in terrific displays of Yagyu Shinkage Ryu and Jikishinkage Ryu as well as Isshin Ryu Kusarigama. We also had the pleasure to host Meik and Diane Skoss’s group for a display of Toda-ha Buko-ryu naginatajutsu that was fantastic. Finally, I have to mention Sang Kim Sensei’s battodo display. He did some terrific cutting as well as explaining the combative logic behind the cuts.
Sato Sensei (far left in photo below), an enka singer in Japan, and a strong jodo player, wrote a song in tribute to Kaminoda Sensei called, “Otoko no Yume” (The Man’s Dream). We understand that the song has been made available at every karaoke bar in Japan now. The photo above shows Kaminoda Sensei, Osato Sensei, and other senior instructors of the Nihon Jodokai singing the song at a karaoke bar after the Kyoto taikai. Karaoke has never really caught on in the U.S., but it still seems pretty cool to have your own song to sing.
Speaking of the Kyoto Taikai, the photo below shows Osato Sensei and Kaminoda Sensei demonstrating sengachi from the okuden set.
Also after the Kyoto Taikai, the Nihon Jodokai group visited Nakajima Sensei’s grave (co-author of Jodo Kyohan along with Kaminoda Sensei).
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