Tribute to Nakakura sensei

   

Nakakura Cup & Seminar
Sponsored by:
ANA

The seminar will be held from December 10 to December 13, 2009:

How to get there: by car: detail plan and ring plan or by subway: plan public transport

The subscription is closed, you may only request information on the examinations by phone, the number is +32 495208379 (Serge Hendrickx).

Click here for a full overview of all the trainingsdays with the Japanese delegation!

       
Thursday December 10

Asa Geiko
Kendo
Iaido
Jodo

07.00 - 08.00
21.00 - 23.00
20.00 - 21.30
21.30 - 23.00
G2
H2
H3
H3
Friday December 11

Jodo
Iaido
Kendo

19.00 - 20.30
20.30 - 22.00
19.00 - 20.30
H3
H2
H2
  Deadline exam payement 22.00 ABKF OFFICE  
Saturday December 12

Opening Ceremony

Kendo (beginners)
Kendo (others)

Iaido
Jodo
Iaido exam      

LUNCH

Kendo

Jodo

Iaido

Kendo exam

Jodo exam

Sayonara Party

08.30

09.00 - 11.00
09.00 – 11.30

09.00 – 10.30
10.30 – 11.30
start 11.45

12.00 Restaurant 1st floor

14.00 – 16.30

13.00 – 15.00

15:00 - 17:00

start 17.00

start 16.00

19.30 Restaurant 1st floor

H2

G2
H2

H1
H1
H1

 

H2

H1

H1

H2

G2


Sunday December 13

Kendo tournament

Iaido
Jodo

start 09:00

12.00 - 13.30
13.30 - 15.00

H2

H1
H1

Click here for an overview of the Japanese delegation!

Nakakura sensei & Belgium...

The relation between Nakakura sensei and the Belgian Kendo Federation (BKR) has a long history...This famous teacher was one of the members of a group of Japanese high level Kendo teachers whom visited Europe, especially for Kendo, for the first time in September 1969.
  
In 1977, he came back again to attend the European Kendo Championships held in Brussels together with other famous teachers as Ishihara Tadayoshi sensei, Oka Kenjiro sensei and Matsunaga Masami sensei.

Several years later (1992), with the help of Hirakawa Nobuo sensei from Meiji University, he will join Brussels every year in December to supervise an important European Kendo and Iaido seminar and team competition called "Nakakura Cup". This competition, since its start in 1992, continued growing year after year and became one of the leading Kendo tournaments in Europe.
Since the beginning a female individual championship was added to this team tournament with the support of Hirakawa sensei. Many other famous Japanese teachers joined the annual delegation such as Inoue sensei, Fukuda sensei, Yamazaki sensei, Oda sensei, Sueno sensei, Furuichi sensei, Itoh sensei, Ohtsubo sensei and many others.

 

 

Go here for an overview of Nakakura Sensei's personal antecedents.
An article from Kendo Nippon: Nakakura sensei tsuitou kikaku
Download a calligraphy done by sensei! (Un sabre Une Vie)
A fragment of the Nakakura cup in Japan  (Download Quick)