Easy way to fully assemble your Shinai(English subtitles)A method that everyone can easily follow for Shinai's maintenance or for assembling the fittings to a new Shinai's bamboo. …
How to measure your Men and Kote size!(With English subtitles)This is the basic method used for the Japanese website of Zen Nihon Budogu.The international Website usually ask for more details, to be c…
It is said, the Kendogu Workshop of Japan (Nihon Kendogu Seisakusho) is the last japanese workshop capable of making every Kendogu part from beginning to end. The Kendo Bogu is not made by a machine.…
Even when we produce more than the 70% of the Made in Japan Kendogu, this only represents about 5% of all the Bogus that are been sold, meaning that the rest 95% of Kendogu is been made in foreign wor…
With English subtitles!(Please turn them on ate the video controls)Mr. Kawabe, founder of Zen Nihon Budogu/ All Japan Budogu and actual president of Nihon Kendgu Seisakusho/ Kendogu workshop of Japan…
We are starting to upload the ENGLISH SUBTITLES!(Please turn on the subs in the Youtube Video control)Kawabe Takahiko is the president of both Zen Nihon Budogu (All Japan Budogu) and Nihon Kendogu Sei…
Key points on the New All Japan Pitch Kote.SUMMARY- The use of Shikage (Deer Hair) and Japanese Wata (cotton) on the Kote-Atama.This is because the Deer hair used abroad is not clean, it gets very sme…
In Japan are about 2 factories that can really produce Kendogu, and one that can make it completely from scratch, the best factory for Budogu made in Japan, the Nihon Kendogu Seisakusho.…
It is still not so much understood what the difference is between the equipment made from scratch to your exact measurements compared with the mass produced standardized size equipment, so we would li…
We know that Kendo can be practiced by everyone, and in a match it does not matter if you are tall or small, skinny or robust, girl or boy, at the end we all can agree that, physical features can help…
Some years ago, we had a top level female team in Japan, representing Zen Nihon Budogu on many championships, especially in the Jitsugyodan-Kendo-Taikai (Corporations and Companies Kendo Tournament).H…
As many people already know, Mai Korogi is a super strong Kenshi from Miyazaki Prefecture, Nobeoka City, that has been working almost from the start of Zen Nihon Budogu, and has represented us many ye…
There is not really an unique standard type of practice, thus there is no real one answer to how would a standard practice would look like. There are millions of Dojos around Japan, and every one has…