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