Kashiwa Dojo

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.

Congratulations to Dário, Syan, and Fumiaki! What a great weekend we’ve had at the BKA Spring Iaido and Jodo seminars in Swindon - training, grading, and eating curry with friends. Huge thanks to the teachers and the hard working admin team who made it all happen. Onwards and upwards!

Happy Christmas from Kashiwa Dojo! Our last training session of 2024 and what a great year it’s been. Several new faces and lots of hard work. Here’s to a great break, and a vigorous start to 2025!

A great evening of iaido and jodo training at Kashiwa Dojo!

Congratulations to Kashiwa student Leo who passed his iaido ikkyu exam at the BKA Spring Seminar this weekend in Swindon! Onwards and upwards :)

What a great bunch of people! Training hard, laughing together, budo friends 😃

Kashiwa Dojo members had a wonderful time at the Fukurou Iaido Seminar in Athens, Greece. We are so grateful to Matsuoka Sensei for coming to Europe to share his knowledge with us. Thanks to Yannis and the team for all their hard work and to Panagis for driving us around. Thanks also to Elaine Sensei for her diligent teaching and Alexandra for tireless translating. It was lovely to see old friends and make new ones.