Hasu Dojo

We set the tone for an amazing year by training in Dayton at their shinnenkai event - and then hosting our kotohajime event at home. Strong start to 2025.

As a qualified yoga practitioner of 21 years, my goal is pretty simple...
To share my love and experience of yoga with others. I stumbled into my first yoga session merely by accident and have been hooked ever since. Whether you join to try something new, to find a physical challenge, for spiritual reasons, or maybe just by chance-
I'd say come in,
give it a try and meet me on your mat!

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Bujinkan Hasu Dojo
5301 Hauserman Road
Parma, Ohio, 44130
Tuesday @ 6:30 pm

7th trip back to Japan -
Do I still smell like a dojo-?

結 - conclusion or end.
The trips to Japan are always special..
there’s an old sense of coming back home.
This was one of the most meaningful trips for me out of the seven .. the friends and mentors I got to share the first leg of this journey with, along with getting to reconnect with old childhood friends in another country..
and getting to continue to share those experiences with friends and students completely new to Japan.

Koryu - old flow
Maybe felt a deeper connection with this word traveling through Kyoto and Kumano - to Tokyo .. having the privilege to take part in an enbu at Kumano Hongu Taisha to the most personal experience I’ve had in Tokyo yet.. none of that would be possible without the time and relationships built by my teacher before me ..
For that I will be forever thankful.
We can only hope to find the same landmarks along the way to guide us upriver as this flow continues on eternally.

It’s been 5 years since my last trip to Japan..
that same familiar smell..
the same feeling of tatami under your feet.. the same sense of being nobody in that sacred space..
hopefully I make it back sooner next time..
so maybe that smell isn’t as faint..

結-
a fresh start awaits at the conclusion of any journey.
Just a bend in the river.
Let’s continue down this flow for as long as we are still standing.

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2024 Bujinkan Hasu Dojo
Kotohajime / Hatsukeiko / Osouji
Happy new year!

Little more info about some dojo traditions

Kagami biraki (鏡開き, lit. 'opening the mirror'; understood as "breaking of the mochi") is a traditional Japanese ceremony where kagami mochi are broken open. It traditionally falls in January on an odd numbered day ( as odd numbers are associated with being good luck in Japan ).The term also refers to the opening of a cask of sake at a party or ceremony.

Before attending the Hatsu Keiko at the Bujinkan Engetsu Dōjō in Gifu-Ken, Oguri Dai Shihan had asked me to perform the godan shinsa for a student of his Dōjō. Oguri sensei received permission directly from Soke via letter for this to take place at the Bujinkan Engetsu Dōjō.
On January 7th, we paused the class to commence the godan shinsa test. In one swing, I broke the fukuro shinai as the student was moving, but as the sword broke during the swing, it slightly touched his shoulder. I decided to do it one more time. With a new fukuro shinai, on the next attempt, the student of the Bujinkan Engetsu Dōjō passed perfectly.

After keiko had finished, Oguri sensei said that the sword breaking was a sign of good luck. It was like the breaking of the mirror when performing kagami biraki. He made me realise it was a good omen, when originally I felt bad that I had broken his shinai. As it was the Hatsu Keiko ( the first class of the year ), the timing was perfect. It was like a Dōjō Kagami Biraki to break open and celebrate the new year, but with the sword!
The mirror and the sword are two of the three regalia of Japan, this connection helped make it a very special moment and memory for us all.

南虎

First day of training 2023
Dojo is clean and ready for another year.

Most people don’t want to learn the martial arts, they just want to learn to fight or learn some self protection methods to make them feel more confident.
If this is all you want, join a weekend course or a club stressing this training. Studying true martial arts is a life long endeavour - It is a pursuit considered as Shugyou, or austere training. There is no quick route or end to the study of Budo. It is an art teaching a way of living.
The Bujinkan Dōjō is an immersion of practice and study into the traditions,culture,philosophy,tactics
and techniques of Budo transmitted over hundreds of years. It has evolved as Art and is pursued by persons seeking a depth of understanding beyond mere self defence skills.
The Bujinkan Tasmania Dōjō was established for persons to pursue the path of the total martial artist. It is for persons sincerely dedicated to practicing the Nine Lineages of Japanese Martial Arts as inherited by Soke Masaaki Hatsumi and bettering themselves as human beings.

Those who wish to study the ways of Bujutsu and Ninjutsu are welcome to this Dōjō.

南虎
Southern Tiger

" The reverberations of my ideas, the dispersion of the ​pure martial heart has spread far and wide, as far as the pure star of Tasmania. "
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Bujinkan Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi
Unarmed Techniques of the Samurai -
Kodansha Publications.