{"id":834,"date":"2024-12-23T07:25:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T07:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanomori.c-s-value.jp\/?post_type=lecturer&#038;p=834"},"modified":"2024-12-23T07:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T07:25:38","slug":"minowa-masaru","status":"publish","type":"lecturer","link":"https:\/\/wanomori.c-s-value.jp\/en\/lecturer\/minowa-masaru\/","title":{"rendered":"MINOWA Masaru"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Born in 1941 in Tokyo, Japan.<br>He began practicing kendo in 1954 during his first year of junior high school, coinciding with the establishment of the Junior High School Sports Federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1967, he joined the Kodansha Noma Dojo, studying under Hanshi Masafusa Mochizuki. He also trained with Hanshi Yukichi Sato (9th dan), Hanshi Chutaro Ogawa (9th dan), and Hanshi Takeo Morishima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1980, he obtained a high school kendo teacher\u2019s license from the Ministry of Education (now the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) and became a kendo instructor at Tokyo Metropolitan Takashima High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1989, he relocated to Hakushu Town in Yamanashi Prefecture, at the foot of the Southern Alps, where he built &#8220;Seishinkan,&#8221; a kendo dojo equipped with lodging facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He served as a kendo advisor for Yoji Yamada\u2019s acclaimed samurai film trilogy: <em>The Twilight Samurai<\/em>, <em>The Hidden Blade<\/em>, and <em>Love and Honor<\/em>. Additionally, he contributed to the kendo magazine <em>Kendo Nippon<\/em> with a two-year serialized column titled <em>Records of the Ascetic Practitioner (Former Noma Dojo)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2015, at the request of Dmitry Kabrilov, head of the Chimera Dojo in Moscow, he published <em>The Mind of Kata: The Unified Path of the Sword<\/em>, written by Katsumi Minowa. The book was translated into Russian and English by Hajime Bushimakin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carrying forward the spirit of the former Noma Dojo, he continues to promote Seishinkan\u2019s unique approach to kendo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Seishinkan Dojo Official Website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/seishinkandojo.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/seishinkandojo.jp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":276,"template":"","class_list":["post-834","lecturer","type-lecturer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","en-US"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanomori.c-s-value.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecturer\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanomori.c-s-value.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecturer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanomori.c-s-value.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lecturer"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wanomori.c-s-value.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecturer\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/wanomori.c-s-value.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecturer\/834\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanomori.c-s-value.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanomori.c-s-value.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}