Kenyu – July/August/September 2024

Volume 38, number 7/8/9

July/August/September 2024

PNKF DATEBOOK

July 2024
7/4-7 – World Kendo Championships, Milan, Italy.
7/20 – PNKF Board Meeting, 9-11am.
7/27 – Kata Seminar 11am-4pm and Godo Keiko 4-5pm, Kent Commons Community Center 525 4th Ave N, Kent, WA 9803.

August 2024
8/16-18 – AUSKF Summer Camp and Shinsa, Las Vegas, Nevada.
8/24 – PNKF Kendo Shinsa, Kent Commons.
8/24-26- Iaido 7 Dan examination, Recreation Centre at BC Institute of Technology, Building SE16, 3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2.

September 2024
9/4-7 – Seattle Kendo Kai 100 Year + Taikai, Mercer Island Community & Event Center, 8236 SE 24th St, Mercer Island, WA, 98040.
9/21 – PNKF Board Meeting, 9-11am.
9/27-29 – Iaido Fall Seminar, Taikai and Shinsa.
9/28 – Seattle Education Shinpan Seminar (tentative).

October 2024
10/6 – Northwest Kendo Junior Taikai, Sun, 1pm, North Seattle Church, 2150 N 122nd St. Seattle, WA 98133.
10/12 – Tacoma Women’s Kendo Taikai, 10am, Curtis Junior High School, 3725 Grandview Dr W, University Place, WA 98466.
10/12 – Kendo Seminar led by Shinichi Koike sensei, Saturday 1-6pm, Cedar Hills Recreation Center, 11640 SW Park Way, Portland, OR 97225.
10/13 – Kendo Shinsa up to 1 Kyu, Sunday, 10am Doors Open, 11:30am start, IRCO Community Center, 10323 NE Glisan St, Portland, OR 97220.

November 2024
11/2 – PNKF Kendo Taikai, Curtis Junior High School, 3725 Grandview Dr W, University Place, WA 98466.
11/9 – AUSKF Board Meeting and Shinsa.
11/10 – Kodansha Shinsa, Torrance, CA, Sunday, 12:10pm Start, West High School, 20401 Victor St, Torrance, CA 90503.
11/16 – PNKF Board Meeting and General Election, 9-11am.

December 2024
TBD

 

AUSKF KODANSHA SHINSA, August 18th, 2024, Houston, Texas

5 DAN: Steve Guidi (Seattle)

6 DAN: Motoya Nakamura (Obukan)

 

PNKF KENDO SHINSA, August 24th, 2024, Kent, Washington

6 KYU: Magnus Hayes (Kent), Corbin Clemente (Meadowbrook), Alina Soto (Northwest)

4 KYU: Takumi Tanimura (Edmonds), Akira Schacht (Spokane), Cameron Ridler (Kirkland), Omar Shakeel (Seattle), Jack Brower (Kent), Toby Kodera (Bellevue), Jackson Songy (Kirkland), Marcelo Cunningham (Seattle), Raymond Pitka (Seattle), Michael Fontana (Northwest), Hani Shakeel (Seattle), Kwang Kim (Evergreen)

3 KYU: Kiki Sato (Kirkland), Rowen Nollette (Spokane), Raiyan Bin Toufiq Chowdhury (Bellevue), Koya Sinex (Kirkland), Levi Gaines (Spokane), Moya Nollette (Spokane), Alex Ge (Bellevue), Lucas Naylor (Bellevue), Anya-Rose Kelly (UW), Asa Valdovinos (Bellevue), Takara Truong (Edmonds), Renjie Zhu (Seattle), Derick Salamanca (Kent), Andi Anderson (Seattle), Aaron Scull (Seattle), Minjeong Ko (Seattle), Cary Carlson (Bellevue), Andrei Korostelev (Edmonds), Miki Sato (Kirkland), Devon Harper (Spokane), Michiko Sinex (Kirkland)

2 KYU: Showa Winters (Edmonds), Isaac Selle (Spokane), Filip Dumitrescu (Edmonds), Sora Tanaka (Edmonds), Yuki Iwao (Bellevue), Wanhui Han (Bellevue), Benjamin Lonc (Seattle), Jonathan Pfefferle (Federal Way), Brandon Ridler (Kirkland), Michael Barrington (Bellevue), Alex Derrick (Northwest), Clifford Lee (Bellevue), Charles Dolera (Northwest), Michelle Yip (Bellevue)

1 KYU: Andrew Schacht (Spokane), Emerson Lau (Bellevue), Sebastian Fruchter (Spokane), Aiden Malone (Obukan), Kaleb Borum (Spokane), Truman Lau (Bellevue), Tyler Lee (Spokane), Kostyantyn Ryzhkov (UW), Stephen Hsieh (Kirkland), Khoi-Nguyen Mac (Northwest), Jingyi Zhang (Northwest), Anastasia Kopcha (Tacoma), Shelly Aber (Bellevue), Sean Wales (Northwest), Jim Fadell (Portland)

1 DAN: Mifune Tanimura (Edmonds), Owen Kaufman (Portland), Jeremy Lin (Seattle), Alexander Sakon (Obukan), Sohma Cox (OSU), Quinn Takara (Obukan), Evan Ho (Obukan), Nathan Williams (Obukan), Alex Leach (OSU), Garrett Baski (Bellevue), Hsi-Hao Keng (Kent), Russel McLaren (Kent), Matthew Dircks (Spokane), Christopher Johnson (Seattle), Wendy Graham (Spokane)

2 DAN: Abigail Tan (Cascade), Aidan Chervin (Portland), Dennis Hill (Cascade), Denise Quach (Seattle), Wesley American Horse (Evergreen), Brian Shin (Tacoma), Asuka Iijima (Obukan), Rebecca Roland (Portland)

3 DAN: Kailun Hu (UW), Tommy Espinal (Highline), Eric Marquart (Idaho), Michael Rea (Spokane), Yuriko Lee (Camas), James Faulkner (Edmonds)

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Kenyu – April/May/June 2024

Volume 38, number 4/5/6

April/May/June 2024

 

PNKF IAIDO SHINSA, April 7th, 2024, Bellevue, WA

3 KYU: Tylor Tsao (NCKF), Patrick Frost (Idaho), Chikako McNutt (Idaho), Jonathan Binick

2 KYU: Nicole Kabata (SCKF), Marlena Cote (Seattle)

1 KYU: Alexander Wilmes (Shuukenkai), Tien Vo (AiShinKai), Renjie Zhu (Seattle), Nathan Westlund (Spokane)

1 DAN: Wrennik Andrus (AiShinKai), Anandhavel Nagendrakumar (Idaho), Kelvin Lau

2 DAN: Wakako Maeda (Idaho)

 

PNKF KENDO SHINSA, April 7th, 2024, Portland, OR

4 KYU: Lydia Mushkevych (Obukan), Julia Alexander (Obukan), Allen Kaufman (Portland), Matthew Thomure (Camas)

3 KYU: Xuanyu Bai (Obukan), Anthony Holmgren (OSU), Jonathan King (Kenchikai), Chad Emerick (Portland), Perla Ibarra (Camas), Filip Alexandrov (Obukan), Chiharu Dinsmore (Camas), David Gage (Camas), Michiyo Okuhara (Camas), John Lawes (Obukan), Juli Hiramatsu (Obukan), Kirihiro Onishi (Obukan), Julianne Pho (Obukan), Lorolei Busser (Portland), Alec Sun (UW)

2 KYU: Joe Takeuchi (Camas), Iori Ohashi (Obukan), Ren Gionet (Kenchikai), Sunil Jain (OSU), Zoe Stein (Obukan), Charles Immendorf (UW), Nghia Ngo (Obukan), Scott Fleishman (Portland), Johnna Loreen (Portland), Alexander Dumke (Portland), Tamara Ia (Portland), Hudson Hongo (Camas)

1 KYU: Ivan Wiley (Portland), Sohma Cox (OSU), Jordan Indrawan (OSU), Evan Ho (Obukan), Quinn Takara (Obukan), Alexander Sakon (Obukan), Annaphon Burger (Obukan), Logan Lewis (Obukan), Nhat Le (UW), Nathan Williams (Obukan), Alex Leach (OSU), Linnea Palmstrom (Obukan), Tetsuro Takeuchi (Camas), Eric Wiley (Portland)

 

AUSKF KODANSHA SHINSA, April 13th, 2024, Houston, Texas

5 DAN: Tiarnan Marsten (Kent), Jaered Croes (Kenchikai), Ethan Waln (Kenchikai)

 

UW TAIKAI, April 27th, 2024, Seattle, WA

0-4 Kyu                                          3-1 Kyu
1st – T. Kunz-Taguchi, UW             1st – V. Chen, Oakland
2nd – A. Kelly, UW                          2nd – M. Remmu, Seattle
3rd – R. Zhu, Seattle                      3rd – K. Soetamin, UW
3rd – L. Naylor, Bellevue                3rd – N. Le, UW

1-2 Dan                                          Women’s Open
1st – J. Yu, Northwest                    1st – J. Paik, Team Canada
2nd – C. Liao, Renbu                      2nd – B. Park, Team Canada
3rd – J. Paik, Team Canada           3rd – N. Fracassi, Team Canada
3rd – A. Mabale, Seattle                 3rd – U. Tanaka, UBC

3 Dan                                              4 Dan and Above
1st – Y. Chen, Tozenji                     1st – H. Yano, Renbu
2nd – B. Park, Team Canada          2nd – K. Kim, Team Canada
3rd – H. Sumino, Obukan               3rd – R. Asato, Team Canada
3rd – Y. Nakano, UCLA                   3rd – T. Hamanaka, UBC

Team
1st – Renbu (R. Himeda, C. Liao, K. Yoshimura, H. Homma, H. Yano)
2nd – PNKF Jr (S. Kim, D. Shilov, J. Yu, A. Yuen, A. Mabale)

Shinpan Cho – David Yotsuuye
Taikai Chair – Hanna Inoue
Sportsmanship Pledge – Kodee Soetamin
Shoji Inspirational Award – Kodee Soetamin

 

BELLEVUE JUNIOR TAIKAI, May 18th, 2024, Bellevue, WA

10 & Under                                          11-12
1st – T. Tanimura, Edmonds             1st – H. Johnson, Seattle
2nd – A. Kaufman, Portland                          2nd – N. Kim, Northwest
3rd – R. Lee, Bellevue                      3rd – K. Sato, Kirkland
3rd – S. Nakayama, Camas                3rd – S. Lee, Bellevue

13-14                                                   15 & Above
1st – L. Chen, Oakland                    1st – A. Yuen, Seattle
2nd – S. Johnson, Seattle                     2nd – D. Terao, Cascade
3rd – M. Tanimura, Edmonds         3rd – D. Shilov, Bellevue
3rd – S. Fruchter, Spokane                 3rd – S. Faso, Bellevue

Girls                                     
1st – C. Kim, Northwest
2nd – A . Fruchter, Spokane
3rd – S. Jeon , Bellevue
3rd – K. Sato, Kirkland

Junior Team
1st – Northwest (S. Nakayama, N. Kim, C. Kim, R. Yokoo, L. Chen)
2nd – Seattle (H. Johnson, A. Kaufman, O. Shakeel, A. Schacht, S. Johnson)

Senior Team
1st – Federal Way (Ju. Kiyohara, D. Terao, Jo. Kiyohara)
2nd – Bellevue Red (Y. Iwao, S. Faso, D. Shilov)

Shinpan Cho – David Yotsuuye
Taikai Chair – Jinho Jeon
Thomas Bolling Awesome Spirit Award – S. Fruchter, Spokane
Centurion Youth Leadership Award -Daniel Shilov

 

2024 AUSKF JUNIOR OPEN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, May 25-26th, 2024, Huntington Beach, CA

9 & Under                          10-11
1st – T. Yang, SCKF                   1st – S. Chen, SCKO
2nd – A. Yeu, WKF                     2nd – Y. Sato, SCKO
3rd – N. Ueng, NCKF                     3rd – A. Yu, NCKF
3rd – G. Muniz, SCKO               3rd – N. Kim, PNKF
4th – S. Nakayama, PNKF                 4th – Z. Shinada, SCKF
4th – M. Sato, SCKO                      4th – E. Han, WKF
4th – A. Kim, WKF                   4th- M. Nguyen, SCKO
4th – D. Nagai, SCKO                         4th – A. Tenn, SCKF

12-13                                        13 & Under Girls
1st – M. Yang, SCKF             1st – E. Ueng, NCKF
2nd – K. Romero, SCKF                        2nd – S. Kim, WKF
3rd – S. Johnson, PNKF                     3rd – M. Toguchi, SCKO
3rd – E. Muniz, SCKO               3rd – B. Kim, WKF
4th – S. Otsuru, GNEUSKF                 4th – M. Kim, WKF
4th – S. Yang, SCKF                      4th – K. Han, WKF
4th – H. Hoshi, SCKO                  4th- R. Wong, NCKF
4th – K. Ghodgaonkar, SCKO                        4th – E. Nacher, SCKO

14-15                                                  14-18 Girls
1st – L. Ido, SCKO                    1st – R. Yoon, AEUSKF
2nd – V. Chen, NCKF                     2nd – A. Ueno, SCKO
3rd – Y. Onitsuka, NCKF         3rd – B. Shinada, SCKF
3rd – T. Matsuura, MWKF                 3rd – K. Choi, MWKF
4th – K. Horiguchi, MWKF                 4th – R. Paek, SCKF
4th – M. Kim, WKF                      4th – W. Yamashita, SCKF
4th – Y. Shimada, SCKO                   4th- L. Uemoto, AEUSKF
4th – W. Chung, SCKO                         4th – K. Saito, SCKF

16-18                                    
1st – H. Mizuhashi, SCKF
2nd – S. Chung, GNEUSKF
3rd – E. Burgei, ECUSKF
3rd – A. Hotta, ECUSKF
4th – J. Huh, SCKF
4th – D. Roh, SCKF
4th – T. Ariga, SCKO
4th – K. Hoshino, GNEUSKF

Boy’s Team
1st – SCKO A (K. Ghodgaonkar, L. Ido, Y. Shimada, R. Ido, T. Ariga)
2nd – SCKF A (M. Yang, C. Kawano, K. Romero, H. Mizuhashi, J. Huh)
3rd – ECUSKF (A. Suwa, J. Ringler, H. Suwa, A. Hotta, E. Burgei)
3rd – SCKO B (H. Hoshi, E. Chen, E. Muniz, W. Chung, Y. Sugawara)

Girl’s Team
1st – SCKF A (B. Shinada, M. Miyashiro, K. Saito)
2nd – AEUSKF (S. Winters, L. Uemoto, R. Yoon)
3rd – SCKF B (C. Chang, C. Shih, K. Miyashiro)
3rd – SCKO A (E. Hoshi, K. Sawabe, I. Kim)

Youth Team
1st – SCKO A (G. Muniz, S. Chen, Y. Sato)
2nd – PNKF (T. Tanimura, H. Johnson, N. Kim)
3rd – SCKF A (Z. Shinada, K. Yamamoto, J. Segawa)
3rd – WKF B (J. Kim, B. Kim, A. Yeu)

PNKF JODO SHINSA, June 15th, 2024, Portland, OR

1 KYU: Stuart Hagler (Hoshu Portland), Toshiaki Shinoda (SWKIF), Anthony Sgherzi (SCKF), Cliff Asai (SCKF)

1 DAN: Crystal Kapihe (Hoshu Portland), Olga Vazquez (CKF), Orlando Vazquez (CKF)

 

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Kenyu – January/February/March 2024

Volume 38, number 1/2/3

January/February/March 2024

BHSK TAIKAI, January 20th, 2024

Youth                                          Adult Kyu
1st – S. Faso, Bellevue               1st – G. Baski, Bellevue
2nd – E. Lau, Bellevue                2nd – J. Dobner, Kirkland
3rd – L. Naylor, Bellevue
3rd – Y. Iwao, Bellevue

Young Dans                                Top Gun
1st – R. Ramirez, Sno-King         1st – S. Day, Highline
2nd – L. Tsybert, Bellevue            2nd – S. Shilov, Bellevue

Junior Team
1st – Team Wolfman (C. Ridler, S. Murray, S. Faso)
2nd – Team Charlie (A. Dobner, R. Chowdhury, L. Naylor)

Senior Team
1st – Team Goose (G. Baski, T. Patana, L. Naylor, M. Suzuki, T. Espinal)
2nd – Team Iceman (D. Shilov, E. Lau, A. Yang, H. Iba, L. Tsybert)

 

17TH ANNUAL INTER-COLLEGIATE TAIKAI, January 27th, 2024, Seattle, Washington

Non-Bogu                                       0-4 Kyu
1st – E. Qiu, UBC                            1st – T. Kunz-Taguchi, UW
2nd – C. Lutz, UBC                          2nd – K. Okada, UW
3rd – H. Fan, UBC                           3rd – A. Sun, UW
3rd – J. Kannitho, UBC                    3rd – B. Vu, UBC

3-1 Kyu                                           Women’s
1st – K. Soetamin, UW                   1st – T. Huang, UBC
2nd – P. Heller, UW                         2nd – H. Izumi, UBC
3rd – A. Fan, UW                            3rd – M. Shimabukuro, UBC
3rd – E. Chen, SFU                        3rd – U. Tanaka, UBC

Dan
1st – R. Aoki, UBC
2nd – H. Hu, UW
3rd – K. Fukuda, UW
3rd – V. Hoang, UBC

Mixed Teams
1st – Shih Tzus (K. Soetamin, R. Aoki, G. Lee, B. Ng, P. Arce)
2nd – Corgis (M. Erdembayar, M. Cabilin, N. Le, K. Ramirez, H. Sumino)
3rd – Shiba Inus (B. Wong, S. Cox, V. Suwantaweechoat, L. Lashmet, V. Hoang)
3rd – Beagles (B. Lo, J. Leung, K. Fukuda, E. Chen, E. Kirkpatrick)

College Teams
1st – UBC B (W. Yen, H. Izumi, V. Hoang, U. Tanaka, R. Aoki)
2nd – UBC A (J. Leung, B. Lo, C. Ma. M. Shimabukuro, T. Huang)

 

PNKF KENDO SHINSA, February 10th, 2024, Seattle, WA

6 KYU: Raven Lee (Bellevue)

5 KYU: Cairen Moon (Federal Way), Ian Santos (Kent), Takumi Tanimura (Edmonds), Akira Schacht (Spokane), Cameron Ridler (Kirkland), Filipp Korostelev (Edmonds), Ryunoske Yokoo (Northwest), Xuan Liu (Northwest), Shin Wu (Northwest), Michael Fontana (Northwest)

4 KYU: Isaac Santos (Kent), Nathan Kim (Northwest), Kenji Rafael (Edmonds), Kiki Sato (Kirkland), Shaun Murray (Kirkland), Koya Sinex (Kirkland), Musashi Blair (Cascade), Andi Anderson (Seattle), Minjeong Ko (Seattle), Derick Salamanca (Kent), Timothy Speer (Bellevue), Ryan Grill (Alaska), Cary Carlson (Bellevue), Shawn Smith (Edmonds), Andrei Korostelev (Edmonds)

3 KYU: Isaac Selle (Spokane), Seiji Lee (Bellevue), Showa Winters (Edmonds), Clara Kim (Northwest), Ray Kawamoto (Bellevue), Filip Dumitrescu (Edmonds), Yuki Kuge (Bellevue), Yuki Iwao (Bellevue), Cian Smith (Edmonds), Kotaro Okada (UW), Malia Kubodera (UW), Heather OCorry-Crowe (UW), Evan Kirkpatrick (UW), Isabelle Martin (UW), Lily Lashmet (UW), Micaela Adam (UW), Wanhui Han (Bellevue), Sarah Grill (Alaska), Brandon Ridler (Kirkland), Alex Derrick (Northwest), Charles Dolera (Northwest), Adam Gaines (Spokane), Creighton Don (Bellevue), Hideki Sato (Kirkland)

2 KYU: Saiichi Johnson (Seattle), Andrew Schacht (Spokane), Connor Burke (Kent), Sebastian Fruchter (Spokane), Emerson Lau (Bellevue), Tyler Lee (Spokane), Nina Underhill (Northwest), Kaleb Borum (Spokane), Hanna Inoue (UW), Kostyantyn Ryzhkov (UW), William Le (UW), Garrett Lee (UW), Patrick Heller (UW), Andrew McGinnis (UW), Stephen Hsieh (Kirkland), Jingyi Zhang (Northwest), Sean Wales (Northwest)

1 KYU: Mifune Tanimura (Edmonds), James Dueck (Federal Way), Jeremy Lin (Seattle), Alexander Field (Federal Way), Andrew Fan (UW), Kyle Huynh (Cascade), Majestik Remmu (Seattle), Garrett Baski (Bellevue), Lucy Yang (Seattle), Matthew Dircks (Spokane), Christopher Johnson (Seattle), Lee Salkin (Spokane), Alex Yang (Bellevue), Patrick Lau (Bellevue), Wendy Graham (Spokane)

1 DAN: Salvatore Faso (Bellevue), Dan Terao (Cascade), Norman Thompson (Spokane), Xijian Wang (Cascade), Brandon Wied (OSU), Wenqian Liu (Portland), Molivan Tuy (Bellevue), Nathan Westlund (Spokane), Kumi Abe (Edmonds), Tory Kim (Northwest), Sandra Mizuno (Seattle)

2 DAN: Jonathan Yu (Northwest), Sean Kim (Seattle), Daniel Shilov (Bellevue), Neo Smith (Kirkland), Alec Yuen (Seattle), TJ Okamura (Cascade), Aaron Rowell (RMKIF), Jin Pak (Evergreen)

3 DAN: Betty Park (Edmonds)

4 DAN: Andrew Yuen (Edmonds)

 

HIGHLINE TAIKAI, March 23rd, 2024

Individuals                                         
1st – M. Remmu, Seattle
2nd – P. Heller, UW
3rd – J. Lin, Seattle
3rd – G. Lee, UW
4th – C. Dolera, Northwest
4th – R. Nguyen, Bellevue
4th – K. Soetamin, UW
4th – S. Fleishman, Portland

Team                             
1st – Kendo Club at UW
2nd – Seattle Kendo Kai

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Kenyu – October/November/December 2023

Volume 37, number 10/11/12

October/November/December 2023

PNKF DATEBOOK

October 2023

  • 10/6-8: PNKF Fall Iaido Seminar and Shinsa with Shozo Kato Sensei, Fri-Sun, Rain City Fencing Center, Bellevue, WA.
  • 10/15: Kyu Shinsa, IRCO Community Center, 10323 NE Glisan Street, Portland, OR 97220, 1:30pm
  • 10/22: Junior Kendo Seminar, Sun 9am-1pm, Camas Community Center Ballroom 1718 SE Seventh Ave, Camas, WA 98607
  • 10/28: PNKF Taikai, Sat, Kent Commons, 9am.
  • Tacoma Taikai – CANCELLED

November 2023

  • 11/11-12: AUSKF Board Meeting and Kendo Shinsa, Sat-Sun, Los Angeles, CA.
  • * 11/18: PNKF Board meeting and General Election, 9-11am, Sat, via Zoom.

December 2023

  • 12/2 PNKF Education Workshop, Camas Community Center, 1718 SE 7th Ave, Camas, WA 98607, 9am-5:30pm. Registration is required.

 

PNKF IAIDO SHINSA, October 8th, 2023, Bellevue, WA

3 KYU: Nicole Kabata (SCKF)

2 KYU: Jay Farrell (Idaho), Tien Vo (AiShinKai), Renjie Zhu (Seattle), Nathan Westlund (Spokane), Daniel Chen (NCKF), Alexander Wilmes (Shuukenkai), Eric Whitten (SCKF)

1 KYU: Amelia Wilson (RMKIF), Ryan Merrill (Shuukenkai), Anandhavel Nagendrakumar (Idaho)

1 DAN: James Thieu (Musokai), Lucy Yang (Seattle), Salvador Eng Deng (Musokai), Michael Mabale (Seattle), Thomas Laha (Musokai), Yuriko Lee (Shuukenkai), Yuichiro Baba (Idaho), Polly Brewington (NCKF)

2 DAN: Breanne Leach (RMKIF), Rae Podrebarac (AiShinKai), Teodoro Jose Boado (Musokai)

3 DAN: Shamina Kerstein (SUSKIF), Brian Burton (AiShinKai)

 

PNKF KENDO SHINSA, October 15th, 2023, Portland, OR

5 KYU: Shinichi Nakayama (Camas), Allen Kaufman (Portland)

4 KYU: Austin Anderson (Camas), Masato Ikuta (Camas), Alec Sun (UW), Andrew Lau (OSU), Emily Shima (Obukan), Chad Emerick (Portland)

3 KYU: Joe Takeuchi (Camas), Sunil Jain (OSU), Tak Yeung Shum (OSU), Zoe Stein (Obukan), Chunfei Huang (OSU), Taryn Gibbs (OSU), Patrick Frost (Idaho), Nghia Ngo (Obukan), Scott Fleishman (Portland), Johnna Loreen (Portland), Alexander Dumke (Portland), Hudson Hongo (Camas), Andrew Wright (Portland), Chikako McNutt (Idaho), Tamara Ia (Portland)

2 KYU: Ivan Wiley (Portland), Aiden Malone (Obukan), Mathew Prom (Obukan), Jacob Scavarelli (OSU), Evan Ho (Obukan), Sohma Cox (OSU), Quinn Takara (Obukan), Jordan Indrawan (OSU), Alexander Sakon (Obukan), Annaphon Burger (Obukan), Nhat Le (UW), Alex Leach (OSU), Nathan Williams (Obukan), Ziwen Chen (OSU), Tetsuro Takeuchi (Camas), Eric Wiley (Portland), Dan DiMatteo (Obukan), James Fadell (Portland)

1 KYU: Emi Wong (UW), Owen Kaufman (Portland), Kodee Soetamin (UW), Taisei Summerhays (Kenchikai), Yisa Wu (UW), Brandon Wied (OSU), Wenqian Liu (Portland), William Simpson (Obukan)

 

47th ANNUAL PNKF TAIKAI, October 28th, 2023, Kent, WA

10 and Under                                           11 – 12
1st – S. Harada, Renbu                            1st – S. Ara, Renbu
2nd – T. Shirai, Youshinkan                      2nd – N. Kim, Northwest
3rd – Y. Kobayashi, Youshinkan               3rd – I. Taguchi, Renbu
3rd – A. Kaufman, Portland                      3rd – B. Liao, Renbu

13 – 15                                                      0 – 4 Kyu
1st – C. Liao, Renbu                                 1st – Y. Engan, Vancouver
2nd – V. Chen, Oakland                            2nd – S. Fleishman, Portland
3rd – M. Tanimura, Edmonds                    3rd – R. Chen, Steveston
3rd – I. Hwang, Renbu                              3rd – J. Leung, UBC

3 – 1 Kyu                                                  Women’s Mudansha
1st – N. Ngo, University of Oregon           1st – E. Chui, Steveston
2nd – E. Ho, University of Oregon             2nd – Y. Wu, UW
3rd – D. Terao, Cascade                            3rd – N. Underhill, Northwest
3rd – A. Rossi, Spokane                            3rd – I. Chen, Bellevue

1 – 2 Dan                                                   3 Dan
1st – J. Yu, Northwest                                1st – S. Nichols, Renfrew
2nd – K. Fukuda, Edmonds                        2nd – I. So, Hawaii
3rd – Ke. Yoshimura, Renbu                      3rd – Y. Chen, Tozenji
3rd – A. Mabale, Seattle                             3rd – Y. Zhao, Seattle

Women’s Yudansha                                 4 Dan and Up
1st – J. Paik, Canada                                1st – B. Kim, Renshin
2nd – A. Nakayama, Camas                      2nd – R. Asato, Vancouver
3rd – A. Fukushima, Vancouver                 3rd – M. Rose, Renfrew
3rd – R. Ono, Cascade                              3rd – W. Blades, Renfrew

Masters
1st – F. Yoshimura, Renbu
2nd – M. Nelson, Spokane
3rd – B. S. Lee, Bellevue
3rd – S. Blechschmidt, Bellevue

Junior Team
1st – Renbu A (I. Hwang, H. Ara, N. Son, Ka. Yoshimura, C. Liao)
2nd – Renbu B (S. Harada, I. Taguchi, S. Ara, T. Inaoka Lee, R. Liao)
3rd – Edmonds (T. Tanimura, C. Dayao, S. Winters, S. Tanaka, M. Tanimura)
3rd – Mixed Team 3 (S. Nakayama, H. Johnson, Ju. Kiyohara, T. Taguchi, A. Norden)

Senior Team
1st – Hawaii (B. Matsumoto, I. So, E. Hill, K. Chun, S. Harris)
2nd – Renfrew (S. Nichols, T. Rounthwaite, W. Blades, A. Nakayama, M. Rose)
3rd – Seattle (S. Kim, D. Imanishi, A. Mabale, A. Yuen, G. Suzaka)
3rd – Cascade (J. Okada, R. Ono, H. Kiuchi, T. Imanishi, J. Yamauchi)

Shinpan Cho – Shinichi Koike
Taikai Chair – Sue Vanasouk and Tiarnan Marsten
Sportsmanship Pledge – Jonathan Yu
Shoji Inspirational Award – Alec Yuen, Seattle
President’s Award – Sandy Mizuno

 

AUSKF HIGH RANK SHINSA, November 12th, 2023

5 DAN: Richard Lei (Seattle), Michael Mabale (Seattle)

 

PNKF BOARD NEWS

At the November 18, 2023 Board meeting, the 2023/2024 Board members were seated and Officers were elected.

President – Doug Imanishi (Seattle), Vice President – An Giang (Northwest), Secretary – Sue Vanasouk (Cascade), Membership – Naoaki Tanimura (Edmonds), Treasurer – Stephen Ting (Northwest)

Other Board members are: Jonathan Bannister (AiShinKai), Masa Ando (Alaska), David Yotsuuye (Bellevue), Sean Blechschmidt (Bellevue), Alex Yang (Bellevue), George Nakayama (Camas), Jake Colter (Cascade), Vicki Marsten (Federal Way), Frank Wessbecher (Highline), Greg Vielhaber (Kenchikai), Kodee Soetamin (UW), Hanna Inoue (UW), Tiarnan Marsten (Kent), Julie Chen (Kirkland), Noelle Grimes (Kirkland), David Lau (Musokai), Jason Yu (Northwest), Scott Parkinson (Northwest), Motoya Nakamura (Obukan), Shun Wetlesen (Obukan), Steve Choi (Portland), Richard Lei (Seattle), David Huynh (Seattle), Michael Rigler (Sno-King), Russ Sinclair (Spokane), Chris Ruiz (Spokane), Karin Feddersen (Tacoma)

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Kenyu – July/August/September 2023

Volume 37, number 7/8/9

July/August/September 2023

PNKF DATEBOOK

July 2023

  • 6/30-7/2: AUSKF National Kendo Championships, Fri-Sun, Detroit, MI.
  • 7/14-16: Idaho Kendo Seminar, Boys and Girls Club of Ada County and Meridian Homecourt, Meridian, ID.
  • 7/15: PNKF Board meeting, 9-11am, Sat, via Zoom.

August 2023

  • 8/10-13: AUSKF National Iaido Seminar and Shinsa, Thu-Tue, Cyrpress, TX.
  • 8/19: PNKF Summer Kendo Shinsa, Sun, Kent Commons, 1pm.
  • 8/25-27: AUSKF Kendo Summer Camp and Shinsa, Fri-Sun, Las Vegas, NV.

September 2023

  • 9/17: Northwest Jr. Taikai, Sun, 1pm, North Seattle Church, 2150 N 122nd St. Seattle, WA 98133
  • 9/23: PNKF Board Meeting, 9-11am, Sat, via Zoom.
  • 9/30: Kendo Shinpan Seminar, Sat, 10am-5pm followed by godo keiko 5-6pm, Northgate Community Center, 10510 5th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98125.

October 2023

  • 10/6-8: PNKF Fall Iaido Seminar and Shinsa with Shozo Kato Sensei, Fri-Sun, Rain City Fencing Center, Bellevue, WA.
  • 10/15: Kyu Shinsa, IRCO Community Center, 10323 NE Glisan Street, Portland, OR 97220, 1:30pm
  • 10/22: Junior Kendo Seminar, Sun 9am-1pm, Camas Community Center Ballroom 1718 SE Seventh Ave, Camas, WA 98607
  • 10/28: PNKF Taikai, Sat, Kent Commons, 9am.
  • Tacoma Taikai – CANCELLED

November 2023

  • 11/11-12: AUSKF Board Meeting and Kendo Shinsa, Sat-Sun, Los Angeles, CA.
  • * 11/18: PNKF Board meeting and General Election, 9-11am, Sat, via Zoom.

 

AUSKF NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 2023 – June 30th-July 2nd 2023, Rochestor, MI

Individuals 
Junior Youth Girls                               
1st Place - Momoka Miyashiro, SCKF         Kantosho - Himari Kurita, MWKF
2nd Place - Sawabe Kanon, SCKO             Kantosho - Lynn Uemoto, AEUSKF
3rd Place - Irene Kim, SCKO                Kantosho - Kayleen Kim, WKF
3rd Place - Bailey Shinada, SCKF           Kantosho - Kristen Choi, MWKF

Junior Youth Boys                                  
1st Place - Akimasa Hotta, ECUSKF          Kantosho - Jayden Bae, WKF
2nd Place - Euvene Kae, WKF                Kantosho - Landon Onitsuka, NCKF
3rd Place - Taichi Matsuura, MWKF          Kantosho - Issey Lancelot, NCKF
3rd Place - Nathan Park, WKF               Kantosho - Shinsuke Yamamoto, SCKF

Senior Youth Girls                
1st Place - Kanon Saito, SCKF              Kantosho - Juah Paik, PNKF 
2nd Place - Erin Nagai, SCKF               Kantosho - Arianna Kim, SCKF
3rd Place - Rebecca Paek, SCKF             Kantosho - Yuka Onitsuka, NCKF
3rd Place - Yuri Choi, PNKF                Kantosho - Seohee Jeon, PNKF

Senior Youth Boys
1st Place - Taiyo Ariga, SCKO              Kantosho - Jonathan Yu, PNKF  
2nd Place - Yoshihiko Suzuki, GNEUSKF      Kantosho - Alec Yuen, PNKF 
3rd Place - Sean Kim, PNKF                 Kantosho - Yun Kim, EUSKF 
3rd Place - Justin Kim, WKF                Kantosho - Shaun Chung, GNEUSKF

Mudansha                 
1st Place - Majestik Remmu, PNKF           Kantosho - William Lee, NCKF  
2nd Place - Samuel Jo, SCKF                Kantosho - Justin Nam, NCKF 
3rd Place - Bright Hough, SEUSKF           Kantosho - Yisa Wu, PNKF 
3rd Place - Cameron Perry, NCKF            Kantosho - Gregory Joyce, EUSKF

Senior Women                
1st Place - Akiyo Kawamura, NCKF           Kantosho - Yuri Maeda, AEUSKF  
2nd Place - Judy Honda, SCKF               Kantosho - Joyce Hwang, WKF 
3rd Place - Miyun Kang, NCKF               Kantosho - Misao Kono-Grivas, AEUSKF 
3rd Place - Stefani Lee, WKF               Kantosho - Becky Yee, AEUSKF

Senior Men               
1st Place - Kotaro Yoshida, MWKF           Kantosho - Hajime Sugawara, MWKF  
2nd Place - Joshua Carroll, AEUSKF         Kantosho - Hoon Chang, AEUSKF
3rd Place - Taro Ariga, SCKO               Kantosho - George Lee, WKF 
3rd Place - Alexander Ebihara, SEUSKF      Kantosho - Hayato Okawa, SCKO

Women               
1st Place - Healin Park, AEUSKF            Kantosho - Masami Hamasaki, AEUSKF  
2nd Place - Kay Liu, SCKF                  Kantosho - Emi Ichimura, NCKF
3rd Place - Sunmi Lim, WKF                 Kantosho - Song Yi Yang, SCKF 
3rd Place - Yukiko Miura, SCKO             Kantosho - Betty Park, PNKF

Men              
1st Place - Braden Wang, WKF               Kantosho - Manabu Uto, NCKF  
2nd Place - Jason Brown, SCKF              Kantosho - Munik Zo, WKF 
3rd Place - Julian Williams, SCKF          Kantosho - Jonathan Leung, SCKF
3rd Place - Ho-Jun Yoo, AEUSKF             Kantosho - Sandip Ghodgaonkar, SCKO

Teams
Junior Youth Girls 
1st Place - SCKF
2nd Place - SCKO
3rd Place - WKF
3rd Place - MWKF

Junior Youth Boys
1st Place - NCKF
2nd Place - WKF
3rd Place - SCKO
3rd Place - SCKF

Senior Youth Girls
1st Place - SCKF
2nd Place - PNKF
3rd Place - AEUSKF

Senior Youth Boys 
1st Place - SCKO
2nd Place - ECUSKF
3rd Place - SCKF
3rd Place - PNKF

Mudansha 
1st Place - PNKF
2nd Place - ECUSKF
3rd Place - SEUSKF
3rd Place - EUSKF

Senior 
1st Place - SCKO
2nd Place - NCKF
3rd Place - SEUSKF
3rd Place - MWKF

Women 
1st Place - SCKF
2nd Place - PNKF
3rd Place - SCKO
3rd Place - WKF

Men 
1st Place - SCKF
2nd Place - SCKO
3rd Place - WKF
3rd Place - GNEUSKF

 

PNKF KENDO SHINSA, August 19th, 2023, Kent, WA
6 KYU: Akira Schacht (Spokane), Ryunoske Yokoo (Northwest), Nicholas Stahler (Northwest), Xuan Liu (Northwest), Shin Wu (Northwest), Michael Fontana (Northwest)

5 KYU: Kenji Rafael (Edmonds), Kiki Sato (Kirkland), Leona Clow (Edmonds)

4 KYU: Audrey Dobner (Kirkland), Clara Kim (Northwest), Yuki Iwao (Bellevue), Lucas Naylor (Bellevue), Weilin Wang (UW), Alex Derrick (Northwest), Joseph Dobner (Kirkland), Charles Dolera (Northwest), Filip Alexandrov (Obukan), Creighton Don (Bellevue)

3 KYU: Cormac Dayao (Edmonds), Andrew Schacht (Spokane), Seoyeoun Jeon (Bellevue), Kaleb Borum (Spokane), Tyler Lee (Spokane), Ronin VanLuvan (Edmonds), Garrett Lee (UW), Charles Immendorf (UW), Patrick Heller (UW), William Le (UW), Kostyantyn Ryzhkov (UW), Kevin Kuo (Bellevue), Yixin (Cindy) Chang (Seattle), Andrew McGinnis (UW), Stephen Hsieh (Kirkland), Jingyi Zhang (Northwest), Michael Barrington (Bellevue), Josh Quichocho (Idaho), Clifford Lee (Bellevue), Sean Wales (Northwest)

2 KYU: Anna Fruchter (Spokane), James Dueck (Federal Way), Marcus Borillo (Bellevue), Makoto Kanamori (Alaska), Truman Lau (Bellevue), Jeremy Lin (Seattle), Andrew Fan (UW), Logan Lewis (Obukan), Majestik Remmu (Seattle), Garrett Baski (Bellevue), Ho-Kwong Kane Ho (NCKF), Matthew Dircks (Spokane), Shelly Aber (Bellevue), Wendy Graham (Spokane)

1 KYU: Salvatore Faso (Bellevue), Isaac Chen (Bellevue), Balter Wang (Cascade), Seohee Jeon (Bellevue), Norman Thompson (Spokane), Molivan Tuy (Bellevue), Nathan Westlund (Spokane), Chang Feng (Bellevue), Hyun Woo Kang (Kirkland), Russel McLaren (Kent), Kumi Abe (Edmonds), Jeramy Gee (Tacoma)

1 DAN: Denise Quach (Seattle), Wesley American Horse (Everett), Brian Shin (Tacoma), Hui Shen (Tacoma), Rebecca Roland (Portland)

2 DAN: Aneurin Mabale (Seattle), Ye-hyun Paik (Tacoma), Brian Wong (UW), Conrad Slater (Tacoma), Edouard Lassalle (Northwest)

3 DAN: Athena Epilepsia (Bellevue), Daniel Lee (Tacoma), John Kliem (Tacoma)

4 DAN: Jonathan Kaufman (Portland), Masako Wright (RMKIF), Soo-Hyung Kim (Seattle), Marek Nelson (Spokane)

 

AUSKF HIGH RANK SHINSA, August 27th, 2023

5 DAN: Rhett Atagi (Idaho), Chris Ruiz (Spokane), Jong Kim (Northwest)

RENSHI: Steve Choi (Portland)

 

NORTHWEST JUNIOR TAIKAI – September 17, 2023, Seattle, WA

10 and Under                           11-12
1st Place - T. Tanimura, Edmonds       1st Place - C. Kim, Northwest  
2nd Place - N. Kim, Northwest          2nd Place - J. Takeuchi, Camas 
3rd Place - S. Nakayama, Camas         3rd Place - S. Lee, Bellevue
3rd Place - H. Johnson, Seattle        3rd Place - K. Sato, Kirkland 

13-15                                  Girls 15 and Up
1st Place - M. Tanimura, Edmonds       1st Place - N. Underhill, Northwest  
2nd Place - S. Johnson, Seattle        2nd Place - I. Chen, Bellevue 
3rd Place - I. Ohashi, Obukan          3rd Place - S. Jeon, Bellevue 
3rd Place - O. Kaufman, Portland       

Boys 15 and Up  
1st Place - A. Yuen, Seattle
2nd Place - A. Mabale, Seattle
3rd Place - S. Kim, Seattle
3rd Place - J. Yu, Northwest

Teams 
1st Place - Team 8 (S. Nakayama, H. Johnson, I. Ohashi, Ju. Kiyohara, A. Mabale)
2nd Place - Team 9 (T. Tanimura, N. Kim, O. Lucero, Jo. Kiyohara, D. Shilov)
3rd Place - Team 2 (M. Miyamoto, S. Lee, I. Wiley, S. Johnson, N. Underhill)
3rd Place - Team 3 (R. Lee, C. Kim, O. Kaufman, R. Faso, A. Field, L. Naylor)

Head Sensei - Shinichi Koike
Shinpan Cho - Ryuichi Shimizu
Court Head Shinpan - Naoaki Tanimura and Curtis Marsten
Taikai Chair - Tory Kim
Sportsmanship Pledge - Jonathan Yu and Nina Underhill
Future Star Spirit Award - Shin Nakayama and Takumi Tanimura
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