Satsuma Karate Dojo

Thank you to Kancho Kanazawa for leading such engaging and inspiring karate seminars at Satsuma Karate Dojo! We are grateful for the opportunity to train under your guidance!

Incredible night of training with Kancho Nobuaki Kanazawa. OSS! 👊🔥🇯🇵

Happy Birthday, Sensei Jay! 🎂

Sensei Jay enjoyed a night of training with Iwilei Dojo

Satsuma Dojo members at the 2025 SKIF International Seminar

OSS! Here is the latest training video (a wonderful demonstration, really) from SKIF General Headquarters! OSS!

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This picture is from the IRF International Renshinkan Federation page. Seated are the original Renshinkan Soke and Founder Isamu Tamotsu (1919-2000) and his wife. Standing are the Soke Iwao Tamotsu (1948-2016) and his wife. The founder of Satsuma Dojo, Sensei Isao Wada, originally trained with the original Soke in the 1960’s, and we have been fortunate to host Soke 2 in the US on a number of occasions.

Tamotsu Family

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Satsuma Dojo Members,

In accordance with today’s mandatory moratorium on gatherings of 35 or more people imposed by Santa Clara County’s Public Health Department, Satsuma Dojo is suspending its classes immediately. Likewise, we will resume classes in accordance with guidelines that we anticipate the Public Health Department will issue in the future. At this time, we do not yet have an estimate of when classes might resume.

Thank you for your understanding. You're welcome to contact me if you don't hear from me for a while. Please know that our actions will align with the Public Health Department. j

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Coronavirus Guidance March 13, 2020 - Public Health Department - County of Santa Clara The County Health Officer issued an order, effective at 12:00 a.m. on March 14, 2020, prohibiting public or private gatherings of more than 100 people.

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Satsuma Dojo Black & Brown Belts,

It is with great sorrow that I inform you of the very recent passing of Sensei Isao Wada, founder of Satsuma Dojo about 1974 and one of the three sensei in the U.S. to first join SKIF in 1983. Wada Sensei's family notified me on Wednesday that Wada Sensei passed away this past Monday, March 19. See this link for more information on Wada Sensei.

https://xtinas.wixsite.com/isao

I am personally very saddened by Wada Sensei’s passing. He first accepted me into his dojo in 1980, and he provided me with many valuable and memorable training and teaching experiences, including trainings in Tokyo with SKIF and in Kagoshima with his original karate instructor, Soke Isamu Tamotsu of Renshinkan Shorinji-ryu Karate-do. Wada Sensei's unfortunate heart attack in 2000 forced him to become inactive in karate at the early age of 48, and it forced the senior dojo members to assume responsibility for Satsuma Dojo and for its members, and to quickly develop our own teaching and leadership skills. Everything we have now began in the small dojo on El Camino Real in Santa Clara in which Wada Sensei taught classes and raised his family. I’ll forever be grateful to Wada Sensei for his personal instruction and for the many people and experiences I've enjoyed as a result of his misfortune. j

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Jay Castellano, Kyoshi, 7th Dan
Chief Instructor, Satsuma Dojo
General Secretary, Shotokan Karate-Do International-U.S. Federation
www.satsumadojo.com

Home | In memory of Sensei Isao Wada

Enjoy some pictures from Sensei Fumitoshi Kanazawa’s recent visit to Satsuma Dojo!