First of all, we would like to express our deepest sympathies to everyone affected by the Ishikawa-Noto Peninsula earthquake on New Year’s Day and pray for their speedy recovery and reconstruction. This year is the ”year of the tatsu (dragon)” in the oriental world. “Tatsu” has the meaning of “wield” and “be in order”. In […]
Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu Setagaya branch held the kyu promotion examinations from December 17th to 24th, and had its final practice in 2023 on December 26th (Tue). In the promotion examination, the basics (etiquette, posture, foot/body movement, ukemi, atemi), understanding, practice, effectiveness of Hiden-Mokuroku-Ikkajo techniques, and spirit, training trakrecord and improvement, etc. are evaluated at each kyu […]
From August 11th (Friday) to August 17th (Thursday), the Katsuura Training Camp was held at the Nippon Budokan Training Center in Katsuura City, Chiba Prefecture, hosted by Daito-Ryu Aikijujutsu Headquarters. (Headquarters HP: https://www.daitohryu.com/all/1764) For the first time in four years since 2019, about 80 students from 18 countries around the world, including Japan, gathered together […]
On Saturday, June 3, 2023, the 41st Japan Kobudo Demonstration in Asakusa, hosted by the Japan Kobudo Promotion Society, was held at the Taito Riverside Sports Center. From Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu, Kondo Masayuki Hombucho and 7 members including myself performed the demonstration under Kondo Katsuyuki Somucho watched as an exwcutive director of Japan Kobudo Promotion Society.This […]
From April 29th to May 1st, an overseas seminar was held in Bratislava, Slovakia. Kondo Masayuki Hombucho, Kuchimura Akihiro 4-dan (Kanazawa Branch Chief) and myself participated from Japan. (The headquarters’ HP: https://www.daitohryu.com/all/blog/1603) Due to the pandemic, it was my first overseas seminar in four years since the Malta seminar in 2019. (The overseas seminar itself […]
On April 22, 2023, as part of the celebration of the Yasukuni Shrine Annual Spring Rites, 8 Japanese traditonal martial arts schools including Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu from among the member schools of the Japan Kobudo Promotion Society performed dedicatory demonstrations at the Noh theater on the precincts of the shrine. (Japan Kobudo Promotion Association HP: https://kobushin.jp/news/202304222042/) […]
April 25, 2023 is the 80th anniversary of the death of Takeda Sokaku Sensei, the restorer of the dynasty of Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu. In the modern era, Takeda Sokaku Sensei was a giant in the budo world who introduced Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu to the public, taught around 30,000 disciples and exerted a great influence not only on […]
Happy New Year.This year is the ”year of the rabbit” in the oriental world. The rabbit has the meaning of “safety”, “leap” and “growth”. At the Setagaya branch, I want to make it a year in which we can safely accumulate practice day by day without injury, and at the end of the year, we […]
On Sunday, December 25, the Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu Setagaya Branch had the final practice in 2022 and held the kyu promotion examinations three times up to this day. In the kyu promotion examination, a total of 15 students were promoted to 1-8 kyu as a result of strict reviewing of understanding and execution of the technique […]
Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu Setagaya branch celebrated its 3rd anniversary today. Since it was a dojo that was set up from scratch, there is something deeply moving about this milestone of the 3rd anniversary. Over the past three years, we have practiced more than 330 times while battling the pandemic, and the number of students counted to […]