Volume 38, number 3/4/5
April/May/June 2024
PNKF DATEBOOK
April 2024
4/5-7 – Iaido Spring Seminar and Shinsa.
4/6-7 – Masaru Takami Sensei Seminar, Curtis Senior High School, 8425 40th St W, University Place, WA 98466, 12-3pm both days. Registration required.4/12-14 – Seattle Cherry Blossom Festival.
4/6 – Oregon Kendo Seminar, 12:30pm-5pm. IRCO Community Center, 10323 NE Glisan Street, Portland, OR 97220.
4/7 – Oregon Kendo Shinsa, 12:30pm-5pm. IRCO Community Center, 10323 NE Glisan Street, Portland, OR 97220
4/13 – AUSKF Board Meeting and Shinsa, Houston, Texas.
4/27 – UW Taikai, 10am, UW IMA Gym D, 3924 Montlake Blvd NE, Seattle, Washington 98195.
May 2024
5/4 – PNKF Board Meeting, 9-11am.
5/4 – Shinpan Seminar, 12:15pm-6pm, Fulton Community Center, 68 SW Miles Street, Portland, OR 97219.
5/18 – Bellevue Junior Taikai, Highland Park Community Center, 14224 Bel-Red Road, Bellevue, WA.
5/25 – Rose City Shiai Seminar, 10am-4pm, Conestoga Recreation and Aquatic Center Center, 9985 SW 125th Ave, Beaverton, OR 97008.
5/25-26 – 2024 Junior Open National Championships, Marina High School, Huntington Beach, California.
June 2024
6/22 – Kata Seminar 11am-4pm and Godo Keiko 4-5pm, Kent Commons Community Center 525 4th Ave N, Kent, WA 98030.
July 2024
7/4-7 – World Kendo Championships, Milan, Italy.
7/20 – PNKF Board Meeting, 9-11am.
August 2024
8/3 – Seattle Education Seminar (tentative).
8/17 – PNKF Kendo Shinsa, Kent Commons, (tentative).
8/24-26- Iaido 7 Dan examination, Recreation Centre at BC Institute of Technology, Building SE16, 3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2.
8/24 – AUSKF Kendo Summer Camp and Shinsa (TBD).
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/?? – Northwest Kendo Junior Taikai, (TBD).
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
10/26 – Tacoma Kendo Taikai (tentative).
November 2024
11/2 – PNKF Kendo Taikai, Kent Commons, 525 4th Ave N, Kent, WA 98032 (tentative).
11/9 – AUSKF Board Meeting and Shinsa.
11/16 – PNKF Board Meeting and General Election, 9-11am.
December 2024
TBD
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 Wahln (Kenchikai)