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Beginning early Sunday morning, scores of the future of Japanese men’s kendo donned their best blues, and began to slug it out for the coveted title as Japan’s number 1.
Word around the stadium picked athletes from both Kokushikan University and Kanoya Physical Education University (Kanoya Taiiku Daigaku) as the horses to bet on – a wager any punter (Sumo wrestler or otherwise) would be a fool to pass up considering these universities results in the women's competition the previous day.
The final match between Kanoya Physical Education University’s Kitani and Kokushikan University’s Ishida was conducted in much the same way as the women’s finale, with the special stadium lights surrounding the ceiling of the arena lit at the moment the finalists entered the shiai-jō – to the great delight of the crowd.
With flurries of attacks from both sides, the match was score-less as it entered an encho well over 10 minutes in length. The weary fighters continued to attempt to land that one point which would lead to personal glory, a place in the kendo history books, and most probably a well-earned day off training the next day…until Kitani finally executed a katate (one-handed) tsuki to brush across Ishida’s throat, prompting 3 white flags to fly up and conclude the match.
1st – Kitani (Kanoya Physical Education University (National Institute of Fitness and Sport))
2nd – Ishida (Kokushikan University)
3rd – Ejima (Kanoya Physical Education University (National Institute of Fitness and Sport))
3rd – Matsuzaki (Kokushikan University)
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