Volume 37, number 1/2/3
January/February/March 2023
BHSK TAIKAI 2023 - January 21st, 2023, Seattle, WA Youth Division Kyu Division 1st Place - S. Faso, Bellevue 1st Place - N. Chu, Bellevue 2nd Place - M. Day, Highline 2nd Place - D. Shilov, Bellevue Young Dans Division Top Gun Division 1st Place - M. DeJong, Highline 1st Place - H. Samkange, Bellevue 2nd Place - N. Grimes-Perez, Kirkland 2nd Place - J. Frazier-Day, Highline Jr Teams: 1st Place - Team Rooster (J. Kwon, S. Faso, D. Shilov) 2nd Place - Team Payback (K. Sinex, S. Lee, N. Chu) 3rd Place - Team Phoenix (S. Murray, L. Naylor, M. Day) Sr Teams: 1st Place - Team Charlie (S. Jeon, Y. Choi, R. Ramirez, J. Jeon, S. Deblieck) 2nd Place - Team Viper (M. Saroop, A. Law, T. Patana, A. Kim, J. Frazier-Day) Boss team (undefeated) - Team Maverick (J. Marsten, D. Yotsuuye, N. Grimes-Perez, E. Marsten, H. Samkange) 59th ANNUAL STEVESTON TAIKAI - February 11th, 2023, Robert McMath Secondary School 10 and Under 11-13 Years 1st Place - N. Kim, Northwest 1st Place - H. Ara, Renbu 2nd Place - R. Liao, Renbu 2nd Place - A. Kobayashi, Youshinkan 3rd Place - E. Lee, Steveston 3rd Place - M. Chong, Steveston 3rd Place - Y. Kobayashi, Youshinkan 3rd Place - M. Shirai, Youshinkan 14-15 Years 0-4 Kyu 1st Place - C. Liao, Renbu 1st Place - M. Remmu, Seattle 2nd Place - I. Hwang, Renbu 2nd Place - R. Chen, Steveston 3rd Place - R. Himeda, Renbu 3rd Place - E. Wong, UBC 3rd Place - E. Chui, Steveston 3rd Place - J. Lin, Seattle 1-3 Kyu Ladies 1 Dan and Under 1st Place - C. Perry, NCKF 1st Place - Y. Lee, Renbu 2nd Place - A. Yuen, Seattle 2nd Place - H. Tominaga, Renbu 3rd Place - J. Ho, SCKF 3rd Place - J. Paik, Tacoma 3rd Place - S. Fujiwara, SFU 3rd Place - G. Antaya, Hawaii Ladies 2 Dan and Above 1-2 Dan 1st Place - A. Fukushima, Vancouver 1st Place - J. Yu, Northwest 2nd Place - E. Hill, Hawaii 2nd Place - T. Ariga, Butokuden 3rd Place - H. Yamada, Vancouver 3rd Place - A. Mabale, Seattle 3rd Place - B. Park, UW 3rd Place - J. Lee, JCCC 3 Dan 4 Dan and Up 1st Place - I. So, Hawaii 1st Place - H. Yano, Whistler 2nd Place - S. Miyashita, Sturgeon 2nd Place - B. Fukutomi, Hawaii 3rd Place - W. Wong, Steveston 3rd Place - K. Takizawa, Butokuden 3rd Place - B. Pae, Northwest 3rd Place - S. Kamata, Etobicoke Junior Teams 1st Place - Renbu (K. Yoshimura, I. Hwang, N. Son, R. Himeda, H. Ara) 2nd Place - Steveston A (T. Kwong, E. Nakano, M. Lin, E. Chui, R. Kao) 3rd Place - Mixed Team 2 (C. Zhang (BUT), R. Sun (STU), S. Johnson (SEA), M. Goodin (HW), J. Lee (CEN)) 3rd Place - Chinook (P. Yoon, R. Bae, Y, Kim, D. Jo, P. Jo) Senior Teams 1st Place - Butokuden (K. Takizawa, J. Harasawa, Tai. Ariga, G. Takahashi, T. Ariga) 2nd Place - Renfrew (K. Muramatsu, S. Nichols, T. Tsuchiya, W. Blades, M. Rose) 3rd Place - Northwest (J. Yu, K. Underhill, B. Pae, T. Ho, K. Hiwatari) 3rd Place - Steveston A (B. Miki, I. Miki, C. Robillard, B. Lee, N. Nakano)
PNKF KENDO SHINSA, March 4 2023, Shoreline, Washington.
6TH KYU: Kyunghyun Lee (Northwest), Anubhav Swami (Northwest), John Lee (Northwest), Takumi Tanimura (Edmonds)
5TH KYU: Alex Derrick (Northwest), Hiro Johnson (Seattle), Isaac Santos (Kent), Nathan Kim (Northwest), Shaun Murray (Kirkland), Audrey Dobner (Kirkland), Clara Kim (Northwest), Iris Mai Honda (Cascade), Koya Sinex (Kirkland), Musashi Blair (Cascade)
4TH KYU: Seiji Lee (Bellevue), Leyna Kitahama (Cascade), Fletcher Hume (Sno-King), Muskaan Kaur (Sno-King), Tyler Lee (Spokane), Cindy Chang (Seattle), Jingyi Zhang (Northwest), Sean Wales (Northwest), Wanhui Han (Bellevue), Chunyan Tinder (Bellevue)
3RD KYU: Connor Burke (Kent), Sebastian Fruchter (Spokane), Orion Lucero (Kent), Emerson Lau (Bellevue), Sora Tanaka (Edmonds), James Dueck (Federal Way), Anna Fruchter (Spokane), Jeremy Lin (Seattle), Annabelle Huang (UW), Hanna Inoue (UW), Andrew Fan (UW), Nhat Le (UW), Majestik Remmu (Seattle), Jonathan Pfefferle (Federal Way), Garrett Baski (Bellevue), Nathan Florance (Spokane), Shiqi Wang (Bellevue), Jeanna Hardesty (Spokane), Mandakini Saroop (Bellevue), Matthew Dircks (Spokane), Joel Morgan (Sno-King), Kyla Root (Alaska), Michelle Yip (Bellevue)
2ND KYU: Mifune Tanimura (Edmonds), Ezra Corcoro Marx (Federal Way), Salvatore Faso (Bellevue), Jorin Kiyohara (Federal Way), Alexander Field (Federal Way), Norman Thompson (Spokane), Seohee Jeon (Bellevue), Emi Wong (UW), Balter Wang (Cascade), Kyle Huynh (UW), Kodee Soetamin (UW), Shay Cunningham (UW), Yisa Wu (UW), Lucy Yang (Seattle), Molivan Tuy (Bellevue), Nathan Westlund (Spokane), Chang Feng (Bellevue), Kumi Abe (Edmonds), Christopher Johnson (Seattle), Alex Yang (Bellevue), Anastasia Kopcha (Tacoma), James Fox (Spokane), Patrick Lau (Bellevue)
1ST KYU: Irene Chen (Bellevue), Dan Terao (Cascade), Juah Paik (Tacoma), Denise Quach (Seattle), Brian Shin (Tacoma), Alex Kim (Bellevue), Tory Kim (Northwest)
1ST DAN: Alec Yuen (Seattle), Daniel Shilov (Bellevue), Sean Kim (Seattle), Nicholas Chu (Bellevue), Daniel Kao (Tacoma), Yuri Choi (Bellevue), Matheus Honda (Cascade), Juno Lee (Federal Way), Abigail Tan (Cascade), Anthony Yorita (Highline), Timothy Jaybush (Bellevue)
2ND DAN: Suepapone Vanasouk (Cascade), Connor Mulcahy (Cascade), Matt Miyamoto (Northwest)
3RD DAN: Drake Imanishi (Seattle), Ian Yoshikawa (Tacoma), Daniel Blair (Cascade), Young-ki Paik (Tacoma), Alick Law (Sno-King)
4TH DAN: Jane Higa (Cascade), Jacob Colter Yamauchi (Cascade), Jason Yu (Northwest)
PNKF KENDO SHINSA, March 11 2023, Portland, Oregon.
6TH KYU: Rowan Atagi (Redmond), Allen Kaufman (Portland)
4TH KYU: Joe Takeuchi (Camas)
3RD KYU: Ren Gionet (Kenchikai), Robert Allen (OSU), Sohma Cox (OSU), Jacob Scavarelli (OSU), Jordan Indrawan (OSU), Evan Ho (Obukan), Alexander Sakon (Obukan), Quinn Takara (Obukan), Annaphon Burger (Obukan), Joey Matsuno (Obukan), Logan Lewis (Obukan), Liantao Shan (Kenchikai), Nathan Williams (Obukan), Ziwen Chen (OSU), Alex Leach (OSU), Andrew Hinman (Camas), Tetsuro Takeuchi (Camas), Eric Wiley (Portland), Gunnar Hess (Portland), Ivan Wiley (Portland), Iori Ohashi (Obukan), Aiden Malone (Obukan), Mathew Prom (Obukan), Kyle Chiu (Obukan)
2ND KYU: Owen Kaufman (Portland), Brandon Wied (OSU), Wenqian Liu (Portland), William Simpson (Obukan), Caleb Foster (Redmond), William Andrews (OSU), Lee Salkin (Spokane)
PNKF IAIDO SHINSA, March 26 2023, Bellevue, Washington.
3RD KYU: Renjie Zhu (Seattle), Marlena Cote (Seattle), Nathan Westlund (Spokane), Tristin Valing (RenMa), Alexander Wilmes (RenMa)
2ND KYU: Ryan Merrill (RenMa)
1ST KYU: Lucy Yang (Seattle), Salvador Eng Deng (Musokai), Michael Mabale (Seattle), Yuichiro Baba (Idaho), Wrennik Andrus (AiShinKai), James Thieu (Musokai)
1ST DAN: Vaclav Kacir (NCKF), Wakako Maeda (Idaho), Marek Nelson (Spokane)
2ND DAN: Blake Kashiwagi (Obukan)
3RD DAN: Sean Horita (Musokai)
PNKF IAIDO TAIKAI – March 25 2023, Bellevue, Washington
0-2 Kyu 1 Kyu - 1 Dan 1st Place - M. Mabale, Seattle 1st Place - R. Podrebarac, AiShinKai 2nd Place - M. Cote, Seattle 2nd Place - M. Tekin, Norwalk 3rd Place - L. Yang, Seattle 3rd Place - W. Maeda, Idaho 3rd Place - W. Andrus, AiShinKai 3rd Place - V. Kacir, Palo Alto 2-3 Dan 1st Place - A. Vanderspek, AiShinKai 2nd Place - H. Maeda, Idaho 3rd Place - K. Tekin, Norwalk 3rd Place - D. Lau, Musokai Competitor's Pledge - L. Yang, Seattle