Kendo Club

Kendo is a sport which use a sword and Japanese traditional sport. There are about 20 members and 3 foreign students from Australia. They fight and compete points. They always practice hard in order to win a victory at conpetition. They practice at sub-arena and arena on Tursday, Wednesday and Saturday.  If you want to see them, you can see there.

This is the NUFS tea ceremony club, “Sabu”. They do the activity every Thursday and practice "Sadou". They hold tea party every season. They serve guest Japanese sweet and green tea. They don't wear Kimono everytime. Usually they wear skirt when they practice "Sadou". It is very beautiful! They are taught by Syuki Irino who is teacher of school of Urasenke. Urasenke is one of the school of "Sadou". They tense atmosphere and enjoy doing "Sadou". At university festival, they serve many people green tea and Japanese sweet.

Picture of Kyudo.

This is the scene of Kyudo. Every club member take part in club activity after class. When they are performing Kyudo, feel free to observe and challenge it! All of members are very kind and cheerful, so you can learn Japanese culture, Kyudo pleasantly. In this club, you can wear a costume of Kyudo. They are called Hakama. The date of the activity is every Tuesday and Friday after class. It is performed at Sub Arena.

Karate Club

I will introduce Karate club. This club has 22members. (13females, and 9males.) They practice with international students. They practice every Wednesday and Saturday.A place where they practice is a multipurpose hall. All the new members are beginners so they practice basic, such as Kumite (means sparring, and is one of the three main sections of karate training) and Kata ( It is a Japanese word describing detailed patterns of movements practiced either solo or in pairs.)

Our Recommended Sites

The History and Background of Japanese Kendo Kate

This site is about Kendo. There are a lot of modern and historic Kata videos. We can understand a lot of kata by watching these videos and help a study of Kendo. Then it is written about the history and background of Japanese Kendo kata. I’m glad if I can support you by this site.

ETC Club

This site is introduced what is tea ceremony. These articles are written about history of tea ceremony and use a lot of picture of tea party and tools of the tea. The tea ceremony began to treat a visitor. If you see this site, you will understand the way of the Japanese welcome.

Kyudo(Japanese Archery)

This site teach you about history, spirits, equipments and all things relates to Kyudo( Japanese Archery). If you take a look at this site, you can understand and get interest about Kyudo soon.
Please look at the following video too and you’ll have the certain vision about Kyudo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA2EnemzBpk

How Karate Works

http://www.howstuffworks.com/karate.htm/printable

Do you know Karate? This site is introduced Karate to user. I will be happy, if you interested in Karate. There are many pictures in this site, so you can know what is Karate. This site is written about rule of Karate and Karate technique. There are movie, so you can understand easily.