Photography

Below are photos from some of my travels in martial arts and culture sometimes with commentary. These photos better describe what I have had the privilege to experience than anything I could write.

  • photos : Kagami Biraki at Lonin 2025

  • photos : Gassankan Kagami Biraki 2024

    Gassankan Kagami Biraki in Seattle, Feb 2024. Kata performed are selected from the curriculum of Jiki Shinkage-ryu.

  • photos : Tsubaki Grand Shrine America

    Visiting Tsubaki Grand Shrine America in June of 2023, before it is closed.

  • photos : Gassankan Kagami Biraki 2023

    Gassankan Kagami Biraki in Seattle, January 2023. Kata performed are selected from the curriculum of Jiki Shinkage-ryu.

  • photos : Keiko at Seattle Budokan

    Group practice at the Seattle Budokan in August 2021 during a lull in the pandemic. I took some pictures and wanted to provide them here. Kata performed are selected from the curriculum of Jiki Shinkage-ryu.

  • photos : Swordsquatch 2018

    Photos from the Swordsquatch HEMA Event in Seattle in September 2018.

  • photos : Swordsquatch 2017

    Photos from the Swordsquatch HEMA Event in Seattle in September 2017.

  • photos : Enbu for Karunakaran

    Memorial demonstration in honor of the late Karunakaran-sensei, senior student of Donn Draeger in Shinto Muso-ryu Jo.

  • photos : Longpoint 2016

    Photos from the Longpoint HEMA Event in June 2016 in Howard County, Maryland.

  • photos : Capital Katori

  • photos : Dewa Sanzan