Coffee with Sensei

Thoughts and comments by Sensei Jorge Kishkawa

02-May-2018

Samurai Day 2018 2 - Kussarigama

Sensei Demonstrates Kussarigama Techniques
Style Shinkage Ryu Kussarigama jutsu

27-Apr-2018

Samurai Day 2018 1

The April 24th is the day to celebrate among Warriors!

After the Iaijutsu training, we´ve met at the Hokkaido dojo to celebrate our day and Sensei Jorge Kishikawa´s!

“Samurai day” was instituted in 2007 in São Paulo city and later in Piracicaba, Ribeirão Preto, Campinas. Moreover, the states of Paraná, Amazonas and Santa Catarina honored Sensei Jorge Kishikawa for spreading the warrior tradition from the Samurai sword, the KOBUDO and the Samurai´s philosophy, the BUSHIDO, all over Brazil.

Two legacies that were the key foundations for Japan´s development and to make it one of the most important and respected nations in the world.
O dia escolhido para essa homenagem é 24 de Abril, data de nascimento do Sensei.

Arigatou Gozaimashita for the presence of all.
May we continue along this path of Honor, courage, and joy!

Gambate Kudasai Samurais from Niten!

25-Apr-2018

16th TBIK (Brazilian Individual Kobudo Tournment) - Results

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RESULTS OF 16th TBIK (Brazilian Individual Kobudo Tournment)

YOYONEN - up to 7 years BEGINNERS
1st Luiza - Vila Mariana
1st Bertollo - Ana Rosa
1st Leonardo - Ana Rosa
1st Gabriel - Ana Rosa

YOYONEN - up to 11 years
1st Chen - Ana Rosa
2nd Rebecka - Ana Rosa
3rd Pietro - Vila Mariana
3rd Menino - Santo André

KENJUTSU JUNIOR
1st Yoshimitsu - Vila Mariana
2nd Mikki - Vila Mariana
3rd Eric - Sorocaba
3rd Ichiro - Ana Rosa

JITTE
1st Guilherme - Campinas / Rovere - Ponta Grossa
2nd Amargos - Sumaré / Webber - Brooklin
3rd Ivan - Juiz de Fora / Drawin - Belo Horizonte
3rd Gilberto - Ana Rosa / Kimura - Ana Rosa

KUSARIGAMA
1st Hideo - Rio de Janeiro / Danilo - Campinas
2nd Amargos - Sumaré / Webber - Brooklin
3rd Guilherme - Campinas / Holschuh - Campinas
3rd Marques - Sumaré / Massao - Sumaré

TAMESHI
1st Gilberto - Ana Rosa
2nd Holschuh - Campinas
3rd Kimura - Ana Rosa
3rd Danilo - Campinas

JOJUTSU 0 Kyu
1st Menino - Santo André
2nd Coelho - Belo Horizonte
3rd Emílio - Sorocaba
3rd Rafael - Ana Rosa

JOJUTSU 7th Kyu
1st Albuquerque - Jundiaí / Freitas - Tucuruví
2nd Takeo - Santo André
3rd Suzuki - Ribeirão Preto / Brígido - Rio de Janeiro
3rd Dalla Pria -Tatuapé / Couto -Tatuapé

JOJUTSU 6th Kyu
1st Albuquerque - Jundiaí / Freitas - Tucuruví
2nd Suma - Sumaré / Arcieri - Santo André
3rd Batalha - Campinas / Pinheiro - Rio de Janeiro
3rd Fiusa - Sumaré / Bergamini - Vila Mariana

JOJUTSU 5th+ Kyu
1st Danilo - Campinas / Holschuh - Campinas
2nd Albuquerque - Jundiaí / Freitas - Tucuruví
3rd Toshi - Sumaré / Paiva - Tucuruví
3rd Rovere - Ponta Grossa / Tech - Ribeirão Preto

IAIJUTSU 0 - 7th Kyu
1st Kazuo - Vila Mariana
2nd Neubauer - Itaim
3rd Emílio - Sorocaba
3rd Theo - Santos

IAIJUTSU 6th Kyu
1st Dallacqua - Santo André
2nd Cavalheiro - Porto Alegre
3rd Assano - Vila Leopoldina
3rd Kazuo - Vila Mariana

IAIJUTSU 5th Kyu
1st VIdal - Curitiba
2nd Yuki - Vila Mariana
3rd Scarlett - Ana Rosa
3rd Petersen - Porto Alegre

IAIJUTSU 4th+ Kyu
1st Drawin - Belo Horizonte
2nd Gabriella - Belo Horizonte
3rd Kimura - Ana Rosa
3rd Sayuri - Ana Rosa

KENJUTSU BEGINNERS
1st Malerba - Santo André
2nd Oliveira - Jundiaí
3rd Toshio - Ana Rosa
3rd Kikue - Ana Rosa

KENJUTSU 0 - 7th Kyu WOMEN´S
1st Marília - Vila Mariana
2nd Moliterno - Sumaré
3rd Scarlett - Ana Rosa
3rd Sayuri - Ana Rosa

KENJUTSU 6th Kyu WOMEN´S
1st Toshi - Sumaré
2nd Mikki - Vila Mariana
3rd Luciana - Vila Mariana
3rd Kurosawa - Santana

KENJUTSU 5th+ Kyu WOMEN´S
1st Ana Lúcia - Vila Leopoldina
2nd Kate - Sorocaba
3rd Silvia - Sumaré
3rd Larissa - Campinas

KENJUTSU SENIOR
1st Hori - Vila Mariana
2nd Lúcio - Ana Rosa
3rd Kimura - Ana Rosa
3rd Akazawa - Taubaté

KENJUTSU 0 Kyu MEN´S
1st Shiroma - Tucuruví
2nd Ferrão - Ana Rosa
3rd Castellani - Ana Rosa
3rd Gallinaro - Ana Rosa

KENJUTSU 7th Kyu MEN´S
1st Liparizi - Belo Horizonte
2nd Shiroma - Tucuruví
3rd Kimura - Ana Rosa
3rd Yoshida - Sorocaba

KENJUTSU 6th Kyu MEN´S
1st Assano - Vila Leopoldina
2nd Ortega - Tucuruví
3rd Kenji - Vila Mariana
3rd Freitas - Tucuruví

KENJUTSU 5th Kyu MEN´S
1st Rafael - Chile
2nd Frade - Rio de Janeiro
3rd Verzini - Ana Rosa
3rd Suguiyama - Vila Mariana

KENJUTSU 4th Kyu MEN´S
1st Emílio - Sorocaba
2nd Lucio - Ana Rosa
3rd Dalla Pria -Tatuapé
3rd Vital - Ana Rosa

KENJUTSU 3rd 2nd Kyu MEN´S
1st Pedro - Ana Rosa
2nd Paiva - Tucuruví
3rd Dallacqua - Santo André
3rd Demberg - Ana Rosa

KENJUTSU 1st+ Kyu MEN´S
1st Gilberto - Ana Rosa
2nd Marques - Sumaré
3rd Silva - Itaim
3rd Holschuh - Campinas

KOBUDO TROPHY
Freitas - Tucuruví

24-Apr-2018

Samurai Day

Translation

Ohayou Niten,
Ohayou to everyone,

Today is the Samurai Day....Samurai!
This word has a tremendous importance in my personal experience, in my life.
Thanks to the teachings from these warriors that I have achieved so many things in my life, and get until here.
Honor, Loyalty, Justice, Wisdom, Compassion and essentially the Courage to overcome this life which is not easy at all.

I wrote in my book Shin Hagakure: "Life is not a bed of roses"; so we need a compass ... this compass is the samurai culture for me ... this compass is the sword, for the Niten students.
I want to celebrate this day with you all. And those who aren´t yet a samurai warrior, I want to invite to try out how good it is to be a samurai warrior.
I will transmit a phrase from a monk Nissen Shounin, that worth for those 25 years that I have spent at the Niten Institute: "It is okay to be hated if the sincere feeling of helping others remains until the end."
(he repeats)
"It is okay to be hated if the sincere feeling of helping others remains until the end."
Thanks to this thought I could be able to be understood.
Thanks to that we´ll move forward, bringing happiness and liberation for all of our students.
Arigatou

19-Apr-2018

On the road to the World Championship - Iaijutsu

12-Apr-2018

62nd Paulista Award 2 - Nippak Newspaper

Published in Nippak Newspaper on April 12nd, 2018

Translation
For the seventh consecutive year, the City Council of Sao Paulo was the stage of the Paulista Sports Award, in its 62nd edition this year. The ceremony - one of the most popular in recent years - was held on the 4th of July in the main hall of the main Legislative House of the country. It was attended by Yasushi Noguchi, the Consul General of Japan in Sao Paulo; also the councilor Aurélio Nomura (PSDB); the president of the Kunito Miyasaka Foundation, Roberto Nishio; Yoshiharu Kikuchi, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the 110 Years Celebration of Japanese Immigration to Brazil; and state representative Pedro Kaká, and the "always representative" Hatiro Shimomoto

From Argentina
Kobudo has given "international" status on the Paulista Sports Award with the honored Maria Flavia Saieva, one of the first students of kenjutsu, iaijutsu, and jojutsu of Argentina´s dojo of Niten Institute. An Argentine student with the highest grade of kenjutsu by Sensei Jorge Kishikawa - founder of Niten and idealizer of the Method (KIR) - Ken Intensive Recuperation - Marina was the first woman in Argentina to receive the Shoden graduation from Niten Ichi Ryu style. "I found in Kobudo a way to wake me up spiritually. Everything I learn I apply on a daily basis, how to be more resourceful and work as a team," says Marina.

10-Apr-2018

On the road to the World Championship - Tameshi

06-Apr-2018

62nd Paulista Award 1 - Saieva, from Argentina

Marina Saieva receives the 62nd Paulista Sports Award in the Kobudô category!

"I am very grateful to receive the Paulista Award,

especially to all the people who were my Senpais, who trained me, who had a lot of patience and who made it possible for this to happen.

When I started, it seemed to me something impossible.

I started looking at each Sempai as a Superman,
Something impossible,

And well, step by step you can get there.

Arigatou Gozaimashita!"
Saieva - Buenos Aires

Sensei and Japan´s Consul General in Sao Paulo, Yasushi Noguchi

Sensei with General Akira Obara and his wife.

Sensei with Mr. Hatiro Shimomoto

Mallet Golf Kudo couple

Sensei Jorge Kishikawa, Marina Saieva, Founder of Nippak Newspaper - Dr. Raul Takaki and Sempai Wenzel

Roger Niero (Coordinator of Santo André Dojo), Sensei Jorge Kishikawa, Marina Saieva, Wenzel Böhm (General Coordinator of the Niten Institute) and Eduardo Huarte (Coordinator of Buenos Aires)

04-Apr-2018