大東流合気柔術, 本部, Daito-ryu, Aiki-jujutsu

Dear students of Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu

Although this is a matter within Japan, we would like to express our heartfelt condolences to those who lost their lives in the Noto Peninsula earthquake on New Year’s Day, and extend our sympathies to everyone affected by the disaster. We have been informed that all the Kanazawa branch members are safe. We sincerely pray for the earliest possible recovery and reconstruction of the disaster-stricken areas.

At the beginning of the new year, we would like to thank you for your continued cooperation in this year as well. We are sending Daito-ryu News No. 4 (New Year’s issue). Please forward it to all the students via the branch / study group chief. (We have sent a Japanese version of the same content to domestic students.)

This year, we are planning to hold the overseas seminar (Italy) from April 27th to 29th and the Katsuura camp from August 6th to 12th. (For details, please see <3> Headquarters Contact.)

Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu Headquarters

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The contents of this time are as follows.
<1> New Year’s message from Somucho Sensei, Hombucho Sensei and Hasegawa Sensei
<2> Report from overseas branch (New Year’s message)
<3> Information from Headquarters
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<1> New Year’s message from Somucho Sensei, Hombucho Sensei and Homucho-hosa Sensei

(Kondo Katsuyuki Somucho Sensei)

Happy New Year.
I hope everyone had a good holiday season.

This year I am planning a trip to Slovakia in February. And, I’m looking forward to seeing you again in Katsuura in August.
Overseas students are very welcome to come to Japan on other occasions. Of course, domestic students are always welcome. Please feel free to contact me in advance.

I hope that this year will be a year of further growth for you and for Daito-ryu.

Kondo Katsuyuki, Somucho

(Kondo Masayuki Hombucho Sensei)

Happy New Year 2024! I wish you all a wonderful year.
This year, the usual events such as the Overseas seminar in Italy, Katsuura camp and domestic joint practice are scheduled to be held as planned. We also plan to participate in as many demonstrations as possible. Your cooperation would be appreciated.
Additionally, we will continue to organize more than 10,000 techniques of Daito-ryu. We plan to compile them so that everyone can learn them in an easy-to-understand format. We look forward to practicing with you this year.

<2024 Plan and Schedule>
January 5th Practice begins
January 20th Kobudo Promotion Association New Year Party
February 3rd Japan Kobudo Society 45th Anniversary Ceremony
February 4th 47th Japanese Kobudo Demonstration at Nippon Budokan
April Yasukuni Shrine Spring Festival Dedication Demonstration
April 27-29 Italy Seminar
July Yasukuni Shrine Mitama Festival Dedication Demonstration
August 6th-12th Katsuura Camp
October 5th-6th Kashima Jingu Dedication Demonstration
October Yasukuni Shrine Autumn Festival Dedication Demonstration
November 3rd Meiji Jingu Dedication Demonstration
November Domestic Joint Dractice
December 27th: Practice Ends
*Regular online seminar held on the second Sunday of every month at 21:00 (Japan time)
*We will also hold online seminars for each branch / study group upon request.

Kondo Masayuki, Hombucho

(Hasegawa Sumie Hombusho-hosa Sensei)

Happy New Year, everyone. Let’s do our best to spend this year fruitful.
I’m sure there are some of you who have been practicing Daito-ryu for many years. It’s a good time for us to go back to the feeling of the beginning and basics.
Your continued support this year would be appreciated.

Hasegawa Sumie, Hombucho-hosa

<2> New Year’s message from overseas branch

(Italy Group) (reposting what was sent in a separate email)

Dear Sensei and dear Friends,
In the name of the Daito-Ryu Italian organization and Italian students, I wish You an AWESOME 2024!

First of all, Lisco Sensei, Alex, Paolo and me, want to thanks Honbu-cho sensei and Fuku Honbu-cho sensei to accept Our invitation for the next italian seminar in Modena and Reggio Emilia, than we would like invite all of You and your students to join the seminar and create a new unforgettable event together. Thanks also to Somu-cho Kondo Katsuyuki sensei for giving us permission to organize a new seminar in Italy this year on the 15th anniversary of our group.

The Daito-Ryu Aikijujutsu Seminar will be at the end of April and will start on Saturday 27th (after lunchtime) in Modena. Sunday 28th will be in Modena (full day), then Monday 29th will be held in Reggio Emilia.
On Tuesday 30th, if there are enough people interested, we have the opportunity to have the first Ono-ha Itto ryu Seminar held by our Honbu-cho in Europe. Otherwise if sensei prefer, we can have some other special keiko, for teachers, black belts, white belts, ecc

As soon as possible will arrive on these email or whatsapp a link for a first survey, and if you will be fast… we can give you all details before the end of January and send the website for the registrations.
Thanks for your cooperation!

Warmest regards
CIAO
Luca Canovi

<3> Information from Headquarters

・Italy seminar (in Modena) is scheduled to be held from April 27th (Sat) to April 29th (Mon), 2024 (open seminar on the 27th, student-only seminars on the 28th and 29th, and we are also considering the possibility of holding additional seminars on the following day). From the headquarters, Kondo Masayuki Hombucho and Usuyama Hideto Fuku-hombucho are scheduled to participate.
・Katsuura Camp (at Nippon Budokan Katsuura Training Center) is scheduled to be held from August 6th (Tue) to August 12th (Mon), 2024. Those who wish to participate are asked to schedule their dates in advance.
・In addition to regular online seminars held on the second Sunday of every month, we plan to proactively hold individual online seminars for each branch/study group (targeting once a year for each branch/study group). Please proactively request this to the headquarters.
・The annual membership fee for 2024 will be 500 yen/month/person (6,000 yen/year/person) as usual. We will inform you about the delivery method later this year.

・ Those who were promoted during last year are as follows (in no particular order).
<Sho-dan> Campa Salvatore, Stefano Rebecchi (Italy), Roland Geldner (Slovakia), Murygin Andrei, Ismailov Artem, Naniev Givi, Sobolev Sergei (Russia), Mari Otsubo (Ryogoku), Hideyuki Ito, Nagisa Kobayashi, Hideto Shinoda, Keith Braddy, Xavier Braddy, Katsushi Nishimura (Setagaya), Stefan Vladikov, Hristo Vassilev (Bulgaria), Nikolay Chankov, Daniel Marburger, Stephan Bliedung (Germany), Abdul rehman Shaban (UAE)
<2-dan> Pedrini Gianmaria, Gianmarco Cocco (Italy), Umarov Mikhail, Demin Alexey (Russia), Yuma Konno (Kanazawa)
<3-dan> Rausa Greta, Paolo Iura (Italy), Platonov Andrei (Russia), Kengo Miyano (Kanazawa), Majed Salem Alhammadi (UAE), Brian Wagner (USA)
<4-dan> Paolo Boccaletti (Italy), Ilse van der Hoeven (Netherlands), Taishi Takiguchi (Ryogoku)
<5-dan> Alex Muracchini, Luca Canovi (Italy), Evgeny Bodrenko (Russia), Stefan Kurilla (Slovakia)
<7-dan> Hideto Usuyama
<8-dan> Sumie Hasegawa

We wish you all the best in your health and development this year.
In order to further develop Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu, we aim to expand the number of students and improve their skills. Your cooperation would be highly appreciated.

(Edited by Usuyama Hideto, Fuku-hombucho)

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Publisher:
Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu Headquarters
(Https://www.daitohryu.com/)
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