ニュージーランドで是非居合道を一緒にしましょう。クライストチャーチにお越しの際は無外流居合兵道ニュージーランド、藤川暖まで御連絡下さい、日本語でどうぞ。一緒に稽古できることを楽しみにしています。

For information on the Free youth kendo project, please click on the picture or go to www.butokukai.iaido.co.nz Youth Kendo is held on Wednesdays at Burnside Primary school and is free to anyone under 18. It is supported by the Kurashiki-Christchurch Sister City relationship, Burnside primary school and the Mugai-ryu iaido dojo.

The New Zealand Mugai Ryu Dojo is an Iaido dojo in Christchurch, New Zealand. We were established in 2006 as the only Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei oriented Iaido dojo in the South Island at the time. Our focus is primarily on Iaido; Seitei and Mugai-Ryu [our koryu], but we also do Kendo as part of our training as well.

We are a 100% Non-Profit dojo, there is no fee for instruction. Dojo member's dues go totally towards paying for our hall hire charges, tameshigiri consumables, repair of equipment, etc. We are also a proud member and supporter of the New Zealand Iaido Renmei and a founding member of the Shinnan Butokukai Budo group.

The aim and focus of training at the NZ Mugai Ryu Iaido Dojo is about approaching Budo as much as possible as adult dojos in Japan do. Budo is about training to make yourself a better person, and we use the sword techniques and training ways of the samurai to help us achieve this goal. Martial arts are about purely winning a fight. If you are looking for a self defense art, then there are lots of more suitable "Martial arts" for you, rather than Iaido.

Our Sensei, Dan Fujikawa-Greig has been doing Iaido for 14 years and spent 6 years living and training in Japan. While living in Japan, he has experienced training in various adults dojos and has taught Kendo at a local junior high school. He has consistently won the Iaido regional championships [ken taikai] in Wakayama-ken, in his division and currently holds 2-dan in Iaido. His affiliation if the the Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei, the highest authority of Iaido in the world. He was also given permission to teach Mugai-Ryu by his Sensei in Japan and was taught the highest level kata and given the Mugai Ryu Kaisetsu Sho and Mugai Ryu Shinden Kenpoketsu documents as a mark of this permission.

In training you are expected to be always trying to improve yourself. You will receive as much guidance and advice as you want if you show that you appreciate it by listening to advice and showing respect to your Sensei and Senpai.

We are happy to accept all kinds of people into the dojo and in Iaido there is no advantage to be had in either age nor sex.The most important thing is mental maturity. People have various reasons for starting Iaido, which is fine, but be prepared to evaluate your philosophy in order to improve yourself.