2010 Kyoto Iaido 8-dan Grading Results

Published on 4th May 2010 04:15 PM Number of Views: 3794

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The final results from the 2010 All Japan Kendo Federation 8-dan iaido grading are out. From a field of 149 participants, 31 passed the first stage of the grading, out of whom only 7 passed (4.7% pass rate).

Multiple All Japan Iaido Champs winner, International Budo University teacher and Regular KW contributor (the Cutting Edge series) Kaneda Kazuhisa sensei was one of the 7.

Prefecture	Name	Age
Chiba	Yojima Hiroshi	48
Tokyo	Kaneda Kazuhisa	50
Gifu	Koumura Shigeru	61
Shimane	Miyamoto Terutaka	62
Kochi	Matsuda Tadao	64
Wakayama	Inoue Yoshimi	65
Fukuoka	Horie Masao	68

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Iaido/Jodo

Tags: 8-dan, grading results, iaido

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Peter West - 10th May 2010, 04:15 PM
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Congratulations to Chris Mansfield from the UK who is the first non Japanese (as far as I am aware) to pass the first round. Hopefully next year we will have our first home-grown hachidan

Kim Taylor - 10th May 2010, 10:09 PM
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Absolutely, congratulations are definitely in order!

Kim.

2010 Kyoto Iaido 8-dan Grading Results

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