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Pacific Northwest Kendo Federation Kendo in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and MontanaHome About About Kendo Kendo FAQs About Iaido PNKF History Women’s Kendo Dojo List Dojo Locator Events Calendar Kenyu Kenyu Archive Member Resources Taking PNKF Shinsa Exam Materials Conducting Yourself at Events: Tips and Tricks for those New to the PNKF Find a Dojo Near You Address: What is Kendo? Member Resources News ← Older posts Kenyu – April/May/June 2024 Posted on 2024/04/16 by Sue Vanasouk 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. 6/22 – 55th Annual Vancouver Taikai, Byrne Creek Secondary School, 7777-18th Street, Burnaby, BC V3N 5E5. 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). 8/16-18 – AUSKF Summer Camp and Shinsa, Las Vegas, Nevada. 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 Waln (Kenchikai) UW TAIKAI, April 27th, 2024, Seattle, WA 0-4 Kyu 3-1 Kyu 1st – T. Kunz-Taguchi, UW 1st – V. Chen, Oakland 2nd – A. Kelly, UW 2nd – M. Remmu, Seattle 3rd – R. Zhu, Seattle 3rd – K. Soetamin, UW 3rd – L. Naylor, Bellevue 3rd – N. Le, UW 1-2 Dan Women’s Open 1st – J. Yu, Northwest 1st – J. Paik, Team Canada 2nd – C. Liao, Renbu 2nd – B. Park, Team Canada 3rd – J. Paik, Team Canada 3rd – N. Fracassi, Team Canada 3rd – A. Mabale, Seattle 3rd – U. Tanaka, UBC 3 Dan 4 Dan and Above 1st – Y. Chen, Tozenji 1st – H. Yano, Renbu 2nd – B. Park, Team Canada 2nd – K. Kim, Team Canada 3rd – H. Sumino, Obukan 3rd – R. Asato, Team Canada 3rd – Y. Nakano, UCLA 3rd – T. Hamanaka, UBC Team 1st – Renbu (R. Himeda, C. Liao, K. Yoshimura, H. Homma, H. Yano) 2nd – PNKF Jr (S. Kim, D. Shilov, J. Yu, A. Yuen, A. Mabale) Shinpan Cho – David Yotsuuye Taikai Chair – Hanna Inoue Sportsmanship Pledge – Kodee Soetamin Shoji Inspirational Award – Kodee Soetamin Posted in Announcements , Kenyu PNKF Kendo Shinsa Results – Feb 2024 Posted on 2024/02/11 by admin PNKF KENDO SHINSA, February 10th, 2024, Seattle, WA 6 KYU: Raven Lee (Bellevue) 5 KYU: Cairen Moon (Federal Way), Ian Santos (Kent), Takumi Tanimura (Edmonds), Akira Schacht (Spokane), Cameron Ridler (Kirkland), Filipp Korostelev (Edmonds), Ryunoske Yokoo (Northwest), Xuan Liu (Northwest), Shin Wu (Northwest), Michael Fontana (Northwest) 4 KYU: Isaac Santos (Kent), Nathan Kim (Northwest), Kenji Rafael (Edmonds), Kiki Sato (Kirkland), Shaun Murray (Kirkland), Koya Sinex (Kirkland), Musashi Blair (Cascade), Andi Anderson (Seattle), Minjeong Ko (Seattle), Derick Salamanca (Kent), Timothy Speer (Bellevue), Ryan Grill (Alaska), Cary Carlson (Bellevue), Shawn Smith (Edmonds), Andrei Korostelev (Edmonds) 3 KYU: Isaac Selle (Spokane), Seiji Lee (Bellevue), Showa Winters (Edmonds), Clara Kim (Northwest), Ray Kawamoto (Bellevue), Filip Dumitrescu (Edmonds), Yuki Kuge (Bellevue), Yuki Iwao (Bellevue), Cian Smith (Edmonds), Kotaro Okada (UW), Malia Kubodera (UW), Heather OCorry-Crowe (UW), Evan Kirkpatrick (UW), Isabelle Martin (UW), Lily Lashmet (UW), Micaela Adam (UW), Wanhui Han (Bellevue), Sarah Grill (Alaska), Brandon Ridler (Kirkland), Alex Derrick (Northwest), Charles Dolera (Northwest), Adam Gaines (Spokane), Creighton Don (Bellevue), Hideki Sato (Kirkland) 2 KYU: Saiichi Johnson (Seattle), Andrew Schacht (Spokane), Connor Burke (Kent), Sebastian Fruchter (Spokane), Emerson Lau (Bellevue), Tyler Lee (Spokane), Nina Underhill (Northwest), Kaleb Borum (Spokane), Hanna Inoue (UW), Kostyantyn Ryzhkov (UW), William Le (UW), Garrett Lee (UW), Patrick Heller (UW), Andrew McGinnis (UW), Stephen Hsieh (Kirkland), Jingyi Zhang (Northwest), Sean Wales (Northwest) 1 KYU: Mifune Tanimura (Edmonds), James Dueck (Federal Way), Jeremy Lin (Seattle), Alexander Field (Federal Way), Andrew Fan (UW), Kyle Huynh (Cascade), Majestik Remmu (Seattle), Garrett Baski (Bellevue), Lucy Yang (Seattle), Matthew Dircks (Spokane), Christopher Johnson (Seattle), Lee Salkin (Spokane), Alex Yang (Bellevue), Patrick Lau (Bellevue), Wendy Graham (Spokane) 1 DAN: Salvatore Faso (Bellevue), Dan Terao (Cascade), Norman Thompson (Spokane), Xijian Wang (Cascade), Brandon Wied (OSU), Wenqian Liu (Portland), Molivan Tuy (Bellevue), Nathan Westlund (Spokane), Kumi Abe (Edmonds), Tory Kim (Northwest), Sandra Mizuno (Seattle) 2 DAN: Jonathan Yu (Northwest), Sean Kim (Seattle), Daniel Shilov (Bellevue), Neo...