Volume 39, number 4/5/6
April/May/June 2025
PNKF DATEBOOK
April 2025
4/11-13 – Seattle Cherry Blossom Festival.
4/12-13 – AUSKF Board Meeting and Kodansha Shinsa, Duluth High School Gym, Duluth, GA.
4/19 – UW Taikai, UW Intramural Activities Building, Gym D, Seattle, WA. Doors open at 9am, Taikai starts at 10am.
4/20 – PNKF Kendo Shinsa in Oregon, IRCO Community Center.
4/26-27 – AUSKF Junior Open National Championships at Juanita High School, Kirkland, WA.
May 2025
5/10 – PNKF Board Meeting 9-11am.
5/17 – Bellevue Kendo Jr. Taikai, Highland Community Center, Bellevue, WA.
5/17 – PNKF Iaido 2 Dan and higher test preparation training event. 9am-4pm, Shoreline Spartan Center Dance Room. A free event to provide personal help to those planning to test for higher Dan in the next year or two. Instructed by PNKF Iaido Committee Co-Chair Jonathan Bannister, Renshi 7 Dan and Robert Stroud Sensei, Renshi 6 Dan. A free training opportunity sponsored by the PNKF Iaido Committee. Registration opening soon.
5/25 – Yuhihai Intercollegiate Taikai.
5/31 – Rose City Taikai, Portland Community College Cascade Gymnasium, 600 N. Killingsworth St. Portland OR 97217, 10am.
June 2025
6/14 – Kata Seminar, Kent Commons Community Center, 525 4th Ave N, Kent, WA 98030, 1:15pm-4:50pm
6/21-22 – Spokane Valley Yudansha Shinsa Seminar, West Valley City School, 8920 E Valleyway Ave, Spokane Valley, WA 99212.
July 2025
7/12 – PNKF Board Meeting, 9-11am.
7/12-13 – Women’s Seminar lead by Chinatsu Murayama, ages 15+, Broadview Thompson K-8, 13052 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle, WA 98133.
7/17-20 – 13th US Nito Kendo Seminar, Meridian Idaho. Open to all levels of kenshi.
7/19 – Women’s Taikai, Spartan Recreation Center, 202 NE 185th St. Shoreline, WA.
7/31-8/03 – AUSKF Iaido Summer Camp, National Iaido Taikai and Shinsa. University of Houston Recreation Center, Houston, TX. Instructors from All Japan Kendo Federation TBD.
August 2025
8/16 – PNKF Kendo Shinsa, Kent Commons, Kent, WA.
8/?? – AUSKF Kendo Summer Camp & Shinsa.
September 2025
9/13 – PNKF Board Meeting, 9-11am.
9/?? – Northwest Kendo Jr. Taikai, TBD.
9/20-21 – NCIF Iaido Seminar featuring Ito Tomoharu Sensei accompanied by Onikubo Nobuo Sensei and Suzuki Junko Sensei of Tokyo Metropolitan police. Details TBA.
9/26-28 – PNKF Iaido Fall Iaido Seminar, Taikai, Shinsa, and Annual Iaido banquet. Instructors and Location TBA. Join us for another fabulous PNKF Iaido event!
October 2025
10/?? – PNKF Kendo Shinsa Oregon, TBD.
10/25 – Tacoma Women’s Taikai, TBD.
November 2025
11/1 – PNKF Taikai, Kent Commons, Kent, WA.
11/22 – PNKF Board Meeting and General Election, 9-11am.
December 2025
TBD.
BHSK Taikai, January 18th, 2025, Seattle, WA
Non Bogu Division Junior Division
1st – T. Takeuchi, Kirkland 1st – K. Sato, Kirkland
2nd – Y. Takeuchi, Kirkland 2nd – Y. Iwao, Bellevue
Adult Kyu Young Dans
1st – B. Ridler, Kirkland 1st – J. Marsten, Sno-King
2nd – L. Naylor, Bellevue 2nd – R. Ramirez-Monroy, Sno-King
3rd – A. Perez, Kirkland
3rd – T. Ruppert, Kirkland
Top Gun
1st – L. Tsybert, Bellevue
2nd – J. Chen, Kirkland
Junior Team
1st – Team Viper (K. Sato, T. Kodera, E. Lau)
2nd – Team Payback (C. Ridler, J. Songy, L. Naylor)
3rd – Team Goose (S. Sinex, K. Sinex, Y. Iwao)
Team
1st – Team Payback (J. Songy, Y.C. Lee, N. Grimes, M. Rigler, J. Marsten)
2nd – Team Stinger (W. Le, J. Chen, K. Tohmon, J. Dobner, T. Patana)
North vs South Team Match:
1st – Team South (T. Kodera, E. Lau, W. Le, A. Yang, A. Gilmore, D. Shilov, L.Tsybert, T. Espinal, Y.C. Lee, J. Koplin)
PNKF KENDO SHINSA, February 15th, 2025, Shoreline, WA
6 KYU: Brad Nonaka (Northwest), Roy Shin (Tacoma), Bohmi Park (Kirkland), Eloise Sprague (Meadowbrook), Jonas Kelley (Tacoma)
5 KYU: Alina Soto (Northwest), Raven Lee (Bellevue), Kanoa Park (Kirkland), Sam Borillo (Bellevue), Enoch Chan (Kirkland), Corbin Clemente (Meadowbrook)
4 KYU: Violett Lapitan (Kirkland), Ryunoske Yokoo (Northwest), Jennifer Kikuchi (Cascade), Shin Wu (Northwest), Samuel Sim (Federal Way), Tomoko Johnson (Seattle), Rich Nakatsu (Seattle), Noah Gaines (Lilac City), Jess King (Edmonds)
3 KYU: Akira Schacht (Lilac City), Takumi Tanimura (Edmonds), Nathan Kim (Northwest), Kenji Rafael (Edmonds), Shaun Murray (Kirkland), Tadeo Soper (Lilac City), Toby Kodera (Bellevue), Omar Shakeel (Seattle), Juubei Kiyohara (Federal Way), Jackson Songy (Kirkland), Musashi Blair (Cascade), Asher Hansen (UW), Benjamin Hebert (UW), Tomo Kunz-Taguchi (UW), Marcelo Cunningham (Seattle), Cassie LaDuke (Tacoma), Sarah Grill (Tacoma), Timothy Speer (Bellevue), Michael Fontana (Northwest), Shawn Smith (Edmonds), Mandy Hsu (Bellevue), Joseph Dobner (Kirkland), Hani Shakeel (Seattle)
2 KYU: Kiki Sato (Kirkland), Seiji Lee (Bellevue), Koya Sinex (Kirkland), Clara Kim (Northwest), Ray Kawamoto (Bellevue), Seoyeoun Jeon (Bellevue), Evan Kirkpatrick (UW), Anya-Rose Kelly (UW), Malia Kubodera (UW), Lily Lashmet (UW), Heather OCorry-Crowe (UW), Isabelle Martin (UW), Patrick Larimer (Idaho), Andi Anderson (Seattle), Minjeong Ko (Seattle), Aaron Scull (Seattle), Devon Harper (Lilac City), Andrei Korostelev (Edmonds), Adam Gaines (Lilac City), Jeoung Hee Ahn (Sno-King), Creighton Don (Bellevue)
1 KYU: Connor Burke (Kent), Sora Tanaka (Edmonds), Filip Dumitrescu (Edmonds), Jorin Kiyohara (Federal Way), Marcus Borillo (Bellevue), Nurivan Gomez (Bellevue), Patrick Heller (UW), Benjamin Lonc (Seattle), Andrew McGinnis (Northwest), Brandon Ridler (Kirkland), Alex Derrick (Northwest), Nobi Konno (Cascade), Charles Dolera (Northwest)
1 DAN: Saiichi Johnson (Seattle), Ivan Wiley (Portland), Andrew Schacht (Lilac City), Aiden Malone (Obukan), Emerson Lau (Bellevue), Alexander Field (Federal Way), Kaleb Borum (Lilac City), Sunil Jain (OSU), Jordan Indrawan (OSU), Andrew Fan (UW), Taisei Summerhays (Kenchikai), Logan Lewis (Obukan), Majestik Remmu (Seattle), Alexander Rossi (Lilac City), Nghia Ngo (Obukan), Lucy Yang (Seattle), Scott Fleishman (Portland), Stephen Hsieh (Kirkland), Eric Wiley (Portland), Jingyi Zhang (Northwest), Alex Yang (Bellevue), Anastasia Kopcha (Tacoma), Patrick Lau (Bellevue), Sean Wales (Northwest)
2 DAN: Salvatore Faso (Bellevue), Dan Terao (Cascade), Ju-ah Paik (Tacoma), Junsei Tanizaki (HKF), Xijian Wang (Cascade), Brandon Wied (OSU), Wenqian Liu (Portland), Molivan Tuy (Bellevue), Nathan Westlund (Lilac City), Patrick Dunlap (Evergreen), Kumi Abe (Edmonds)
3 DAN: Koji Tohmon (Sno-King), Suepapone Vanasouk (Cascade), Connor Mulcahy (Cascade), Hien Nguyen (Edmonds), Matt Miyamoto (Northwest)
4 DAN: Stephen Ting (Northwest), Yun Chung Lee (Bellevue)
PNKF KENDO SHINSA, April 20th, 2025, Portland, OR
4 KYU: Christopher Lee (Obukan), Benaiah Soriano (Camas), Shawn Kalmykov (Seattle), Steven Wishman (Kenchikai)
3 KYU: Ray Dinsmore (Camas), Luca Guidi (Seattle), Nolan Deschuytter (Camas), Lane Woods (Lilac City), Maya Yoshihara (Obukan), Sandor Cseh (Obukan), Jayden Waggoner (OSU), Frank Fahrer (OSU), Alder Bailey-Conklin (Portland), Tyus Morris (Obukan), Keith Virgin (Camas), Chris Kobata (Camas), Leonard Spivey (Kenchikai)
2 KYU: Braden Jack (OSU), Samantha Barondyck (OSU), Adrienne Kinsey (Northwest), Peter Konneker (Camas), Domonic Ceccarelli (Obukan)
1 KYU: Iori Ohashi (Obukan), Kirihiro Onishi (Obukan), Julianne Pho (Obukan), Joey Matsuno (Obukan), Jonathan King (Kenchikai), Chad Emerick (Portland), Chiharu Dinsmore (Camas), Michiyo Okuhara (Camas)