Volume 40, number 7/8/9  

July/August/September

PNKF DATEBOOK

July 2026
7/3-5 – AUSKF National Kendo Championships, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV.
7/16-19 – 14th US Nito Kendo Seminar, Caldwell, Idaho. Open to all levels of kenshi.
7/18 – PNKF Board Meeting, 9-11am.
7/22-26 – AUSKF Iaido Seminar and Shinsa

August 2026
8/8 – PNKF Competition Seminar, Curtis Junior High School, University Place, WA. 9am-4pm
8/15 – PNKF Kendo Shinsa, Kent Commons Community Center, 525 4th Avenue N, Kent, WA 98030. Doors open 11am. 12:30pm start.
8/22-23 AUSKF Kendo Summer Camp and Shinsa, Las Vegas, NV.

September 2026
9/12 – PNKF Board Meeting, 9-11am.

October 2026
10/3 – PNKF Shinpan Seminar led by D. Imanishi sensei, Curtis Junior High School, 12-6pm.
10/3-4 – Iaido Fall Seminar and Shinsa
10/11 – Northwest Junior Taikai
10/17 – Oregon Education Event, Details TBD
10/18 – Oregon Kendo Shinsa, Details TBD
10/31 – PNKF Taikai – Seminar

November 2026
11/1 – 50th Annual PNKF Taikai, Kent Commons Community Center, 525 4th Avenue N, Kent, WA 98030
11/21 – PNKF Board Meeting and General Election, 9-11am.

December 2026
TBD.

2026 AUSKF IAIDO TAIKAI, July 25, 2026, McMinnville, OR
3 Dan
2nd – Alden Vanderspek (AiShinKai Fudo Myoo-ji Dojo)
3rd – Brian Burton (AiShinKai Fudo Myoo-ji Dojo)

4 Dan
1st – Hiroyuki Paul Maeda (Idaho Kendo Club)
2nd – Thane Mittelstaedt (AiShinKai Fudo Myoo-ji Dojo)

AUSKF IAIDO SHINSA, July 26, 2026, McMinnville, OR
3 KYU
Rich Nakatsu (Seattle Kendo Kai)

2 DAN
Marlena Cote (Seattle Kendo Kai)

6 DAN
Aniceto Seto (Musokai)
Masayaku Ando (Alaska Kendo Club)

Renshi
Robert Stroud (Idaho Kendo Club)
Jonathan Bannister (AiShinKai Fudo Myoo-ji Dojo)
Hiroaki Fukumoto (Seattle Kendo Kai)

PNKF KENDO SHINSA, April 26th, 2026, Portland, OR

5 KYU: Colton Moon (Kenchikai)

4 KYU: Bryan Tjokro (Kenchikai), Cassidy Weston (Kenchikai), Martin Rodriguez (Camas)

3 KYU: Ayako Teraoka (Camas), Valentina Velez (Portland), Megan Craig (OSU), Guo Ye (Obukan), Adam Chhor (Bellevue), Alexander Shi (Camas), Terry Marshall (Kenchikai), Zachary Grant (Camas), Cydette Marshall (Kenchikai)

2 KYU: Takumi Tanimura (Edmonds), Christopher Lee (Obukan), Ray Dinsmore (Camas), Sean Lacson (Kenchikai), Cody Palmer-Furman (Redmond), Demian Mendez (Camas), John Lawes (Obukan), Matt Dinsmore (Camas)

1 KYU: Sandor Cseh (Obukan), Amy Howes (Redmond), Tyus Morris (Obukan)

16th All United States Kendo Championships, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 3, 2026 – July 5, 2026

Mens
1st Branden Wang (WKF)
2nd Satoshi Kubo (AEUSKF)
3rd Alistair Faghani (GNEUSKF), Taiyo Ariga (SCKO)
Kantosho Kei Takahashi (AEUSKF), Arashi Steele (SCKF), Riku Ido (SCKO), Travis Hill (MWKF)

Womens
1st Kanon Saito (SCKF)
2nd Ai Matsumoto (MWKF)
3rd Yukiko Miura (SCKO), Allyson Dong (SCKF)
Kantosho Rika Iketani (SCKO), Isabel Lorimer (SCKO), Zidi Allison (SCKF), Eri Kosakaya (AEUSKF)

Mudansha
1st Daisuke Hanaoka (SCKF)
2nd Sharif Saeed (SEUSKF)
3rd Ryan Tokumoto (SCKF), Mori Fukunaga-Taylor (SCKF)
Kantosho Eriz Sartiga (NCKF), Timur Sukhanov (MWKF), Michael Fontana (PNKF), Daniel Chae (GNEUSKF)

Senior Men
1st Hayato Okawa (SCKO)
2nd Hajime Sugawara (MWKF)
3rd Yutaro Matsuura (MWKF), Taro Ariga (SCKO)
Kantosho InMyung Song (SWKIF), Kazunori Kobayashi (SCKF), Joshua Caroll (AEUSKF), Kenichi Hatakeyama (SWKIF)

Senior Women
1st Akiyo Kawamura (NCKF)
2nd Joyce Hwang (WKF)
3rd Satoko Kurosaki (SWKIF), Miyun Kang (NCKF)
Kantosho Misao Kono-Grivas (AEUSKF), Noriko Towata (SCKF), Stefani Lee (WKF), Shinobu Hashimoto (NCKF)

Senior Youth Girls Individual
1st Lynn Uemoto (AEUSKF)
2nd Bailey Shinada (SCKF)
3rd Alba Ueno (SCKO), Erena Hoshi (SCKO)
Kantosho Mai Sakamoto (SCKO), Colleene Chang (SCKF), Abigail Westblade (SEUSKF), Kanon Sawabe (SCKO)

Senior Youth Boys Individual
1st Luke Ido (SCKO)
2nd Nathan Park (WKF)
3rd Yuta Onitsuka (NCKF), Taichi Matsuura (MWKF)
Kantosho Mooyong Kim (WKF), Geonhee Lee (SEUSKF), Ken Uemoto (AEUSKF), Yoshihiko Shimada (SCKO)

Junior Youth Girls
1st Clara Kim (PNKF)
2nd Siwoo Kim (WKF)
3rd Zoey Shinada (SCKF), Kathleen Ahn (WKF)
Kantosho Isla Park (WKF), Suzuha Noelle Winters (AEUSKF), Abigail Tenn (SCKF), Emma Ueng (NCKF)

Junior Youth Boys
1st Kai Romero (SCKF)
2nd Musashi Yang (SCKF)
3rd Jack Segawa (SCKF), Enzo Musashi Miyamoto (SCKO)
Kantosho Ethan Choo (SCKF), Owen Kang (WKF), Haruhide Someya (NCKF), Hayato Hoshi (SCKO)

Mens Team
1st SCKF
2nd SCKO
3rd SWKIF, AEUSKF

Womens Team
1st PNKF
2nd MWKF
3rd SCKF, AEUSKF

Senior Team
1st MWKF
2nd SCKO
3rd SEUSKF, AEUSKF

Mudansha Team
1st SCKF
2nd SEUSKF
3rd NCKF, PNKF

Senior Youth Boys Team
1st SCKF
2nd MWKF
3rd SCKO, NCKF

Senior Youth Girls Team
1st SCKF
2nd SCKO
3rd WKF, MWKF

Junior Youth Girls Team
1st WKF
2nd NCKF
3rd SCKF, PNKF

Junior Youth Boys Team
1st SCKO
2nd SCKF
3rd GNEUSKF, WKF

Volume 40, number 4/5/6  

April/May/June

2026 UW TAIKAI, April 25th, 2026, Seattle, WA

0-4 Kyu                                               3-1 Kyu  
1st – M. Zhou, Cascade                     1st – B. Ridler, Kirkland
2nd – A. Allen, Tacoma                       2nd – L. Naylor, Bellevue
3rd – S. Shen, UW                              3rd – J. Tao, UW
3rd – A. Siopsis, Highline                    3rd – M. Fontana, Northwest

1-2 Dan                                               3 Dan
1st – V. Chen, NCKF                           1st – A. Yuen, UW
2nd – S. Fleishman, Portland              2nd – A. Mabale, UW
3rd – M. Remmu, Seattle                    3rd – D. Sakai, Edmonds
3rd – J. Tanizaki, UW                          3rd – K. Fukuda, Edmonds

Women’s Open                                   4 Dan and up
1st – E. Ichimura, Sno-King                 1st – T. Hamanaka, Tozenji
2nd – M. DeJong, Highline                   2nd – T. Marsten, Kent
3rd – Y. Sugata, Tozenji                        3rd – E. Marsten, Highline
3rd -N. Grimes-Perez, Kirkland            3rd – K. Unzei, Tozenji

Team (Elizabeth Marsten Cup)
1st – PNKF Men’s Team
2nd – Edmonds (K. Fukuda, V. Chen, D. Sakai, W. Yi, N. Tanimura)
3rd – Tozenji (J. Jeong, Y. Sugata, U. Tanaka, K. Unzei, T. Hamanaka)
3rd – PNKF Women’s Team

Shinpan Cho – David Yotsuuye
Shoji Inspirational Award – Daniel Gugig and Suji Jang

PNKF KENDO SHINSA, April 26th, 2026, Portland, OR

5 KYU: Colton Moon (Kenchikai)

4 KYU: Bryan Tjokro (Kenchikai), Cassidy Weston (Kenchikai), Martin Rodriguez (Camas)

3 KYU: Ayako Teraoka (Camas), Valentina Velez (Portland), Megan Craig (OSU), Guo Ye (Obukan), Adam Chhor (Bellevue), Alexander Shi (Camas), Terry Marshall (Kenchikai), Zachary Grant (Camas), Cydette Marshall (Kenchikai)

2 KYU: Takumi Tanimura (Edmonds), Christopher Lee (Obukan), Ray Dinsmore (Camas), Sean Lacson (Kenchikai), Cody Palmer-Furman (Redmond), Demian Mendez (Camas), John Lawes (Obukan), Matt Dinsmore (Camas)

1 KYU: Sandor Cseh (Obukan), Amy Howes (Redmond), Tyus Morris (Obukan)

34TH BELLEVUE JUNIOR KENDO CHAMPIONSHIP, May 16th, 2026, Bellevue, WA

10 and Under                              Non-Bogu                           
1st – B. Park, Kirkland                 1st – K. Tongu, Seattle
2nd – R. Shin, Cascade               2nd – A. Chen, Bellevue
3rd – M. Hayes, Kent
3rd – S. Lee, Cascade

11-12                                              Girls 11+
1st – T. Tanimura, Edmonds          1st – C. Kim, Northwest
2nd – R. Lee, Bellevue                   2nd – K. Sato, Kirkland
3rd – S. Nakayama, Camas           3rd – D. Mehr, Kirkland
3rd – C. Shin, Cascade                  3rd – R. Nollette, Lilac City

13-15                                             HS Boys
1st – N. Kim, Northwest                1st – R. Yokoo, Northwest
2nd – S. Lee, Bellevue                  2nd – E. Lau, Bellevue
3rd – K. Sinex, Kirkland                 3rd – J. Songy, Kirkland
3rd -C. Kim, Northwest                  3rd – Jo. Kiyohara, Federal Way

Junior Team 
1st – Edmonds (S. Winters, E. Narith, E. Santiago, C. Lee, T. Tanimura)
2nd – Seattle (C. Liu, M. Hayes, H. Johnson, M. Nollette, L. Guidi)

Senior Team
1st – Edmonds (F. Dumitrescu, S. Tanaka, M. Tanimura)
2nd – Bellevue (L. Naylor, J. Songy, E. Lau)

Shinpan Cho – David Yotsuuye
Tom Bolling Awesome Spirit Award – Catherine Shin, Cascade
Centurion Youth Leadership Award – Emerson Lau, Bellevue

ROSE CITY TAIKAI, May 30th, 2026, Portland, OR. 

10 and Under                                 11-12                           
1st – B. Park, Kirkland                    1st – S. Nakayama, Camas
2nd – R. Shin, Cascade                  2nd – A. Kaufman, Portland
3rd – K. Nakayama, Camas            3rd – C. Liu, Seattle
3rd – M. Rodriguez, Camas            3rd – T. Hall, Camas

13-14                                               15-17
1st – N. Kim, Northwest                  1st – S. Johnson, Seattle
2nd – K. Sato, Kirkland                    2nd – C. Kim, Northwest
3rd – R. Yamada, Camas                3rd – Ju. Kiyohara, Federal Way
3rd – H. Yun, Evergreen                  3rd – O. Kaufman, Portland

0-3 Kyu                                           2-1 Kyu
1st – J. Tao, UW                              1st – M. Fontana, Northwest
2nd – T. Marshall, Kenchikai            2nd – L. Spivey, Kenchikai
3rd – G. Ye, Obukan                        3rd – T. Morris, Obukan
3rd -A. Chhor, Bellevue                    3rd – B. Ridler, Kirkland

Womens Kyu                                  Womens Dan
1st – C. Yamada, Camas                 1st – N. Grimes-Perez, Kirkland
2nd – S. Wu, Northwest                   2nd – M. DeJong, Highlinr
3rd – At. Teraoka, Camas                 3rd – J. Higa, Cascade
3rd -A. Soto, Northwest                    3rd – T. Imanishi, Cascade

1-2 Dan                                            3 Dan
1st – J. Yu, UW                                1st – A. Mabale, UW
2nd – M. Itome, UO                         2nd – A. Yuen, UW
3rd – M. Remmu, Seattle                 3rd – T. Espinal, Highline
3rd -J. Dueck, Federal Way             3rd – K. Tohmon, Sno-King

4 Dan and Up                                    
1st – R. Ramirez, Sno-King
2nd – B. Sprenger, Obukan
3rd – I. Morgan, Kenchikai
3rd -R. Lei. Seattle

Junior Team 
1st – Team 7 (S. Nakayama, B. Park, K. Onishi)
2nd – Team 4 (C. Shin, K. Lundquist, S. Johnson)
3rd – Team 6 (M. Rodriguez, J. Alexander, C. Kim)
3rd – Team 9 (Ay, Teraoka, N. Kim, I. Wiley)

Senior Team
1st – PNKF Men
2nd – PNKF Women
3rd – Seattle A (M. Remmu, B. Lonc, R. Lei, D. Kopytov, S. Guidi)
3rd – Kirkland (A. Perez, B. Ridler, P. Chang, E. Park, J. Dobner)

Shinpan Cho – Shinichi Koike