Kashiwa Dojo

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Kashiwa students Abdul, Maurizio, and Olesya had a great time at the BKA Summer Iaido Seminar. Huge congratulations to Abdul and Maurizio for passing their 3rd dan and ikkyu gradings respectively. Onwards and upwards!

Kashiwa members Will and Olesya had a great time at the BKA Summer Jodo Seminar. Congratulations to Will for passing his 5th dan grading. Huge thanks to Otake Sensei for his very clear teaching, Andy for translating, and all the organisers for a really well run and fun seminar.

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Congratulations to Fumiaki for passing his iaido shodan at the BKA Spring Seminar in Coventry this weekend!

Kashiwa Dojo members Abdul, Isa, and Will had a great time in Athens this weekend at the Fukuro Iaido Seminar. Two days of Shinkage ryu koryu and ZNKR iaido with Matsuoka Sensei, Elaine and David Sensei, and our friends from Greece, the Netherlands, Spain, France, and Germany. Huge thanks to our Greek hosts for a well run, useful, and thoroughly enjoyable event. Extra huge thanks to the kind Greek friends who drove us about all weekend, so hospitable and welcoming. Can’t wait for next year!

Great first class of 2026! Wishing all our budo friends a fantastic year of training 🙂

Huge congratulations to team Kashiwa, winners of the 2025 Eishinkan Jodo Taikai! Jon and Fumiaki were were joined by Elena West, who kindly stepped in when Will was taken ill. We are enormously grateful for her kind support.

Also congratulations to Fumiaki, who passed his jodo 1st dan! What a weekend!

Will says: I had an amazing time this weekend at the NKR Summer Iaido Seminar in Eindhoven. We had a huge delegation of amazing teachers from Japan (including my own teacher, Matsuoka Sensei) and Europe. Great training, great catch-ups with friends old and new. There were around 275 attendees, a record for this event. We had insightful ZNKR training (thank you Yuki Sensei!!), intense and insightful koryu training, and a huge koryu competition. Phew! Thanks to all the teachers, organisers, helpers and particularly Elaine and David, for their care and support, and Andy and Łukasz for organising the taikai in record time and with military precision.

Hello, please note that during the school holidays our classes will be at the earlier time of 19:00-21:00. For Summer 2025 that's from 16/07/25 to 27/08/25.