A week since my first Kendo class with the Chennai Kendo Club, I find myself often zoning in and out of a larger cosmic zen. When things go wrong, I say ‘utsuke’ (meaning idiot) and when I ...

he cultivated the Kendo Nagasaki persona – a name cobbled together from the word ‘Kendo’ (a Japanese martial art) and the city shattered by an atomic bomb in World War II. Quickly “plonked ...

When Ruban started thinking of fleeing her homeland, she reached out for connections with far-flung Japan partly because of the kendo lessons she had taken in Ukraine. In addition, she also held ...

00:43 But you can still find a little bit of the heart of the samurai in Japan's martial arts, kendo. 00:52 And I used to be a competitive fencer, so I love swords and swordsmanship and battling ...

Born in Saitama Prefecture, Odachi had loved kendo since childhood. At age 16, he joined the Imperial Japanese Navy’s preparatory pilot training course and became a special unit member in ...

Kendo, a Japanese martial art, is practiced with a special sword. It’s not a particularly sharp sword, though, since the “blade” is essentially a length of bamboo. For this reason ...

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