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Inner Dharma is a blog concerned with classical and traditional martial arts and culture that has been maintained for over twenty years. Below are some photos from martial arts events I attended and pilgrimages I have made over the years.

• photos : Kagami Biraki at Lonin 2025

  

  I attended Kagami Biraki at Lonin League in Seattle, Feb 2025. It was a privilege to see the demonstrations of budo from members of Tenshin Buko-ryu, Takamura-ha Shindo Yoshin Ryu, and Japanese Fighting Arts Northwest.

• photos : Visiting Kyoto and Nara

  

  Visiting sacred places has been an important component of my martial arts training over the years. I returned to Japan in autumn and visited several temples and shrines in Kyoto and Nara.

• 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 : Yin Cheng Gong Fa North America

  

  I am a member of Yin Cheng Gong Fa (YCGF) North America, under which I practice Bagua Zhang, Xingyi Quan and Taiji Quan. I began training in 2005 in Maryland under Paul Cote and began traveling to Pittsburgh in 2010 to continue my training under his teacher, Zhang Yun. In 2015 in Princeton I became the 40th lineal student of Zhang Yun laoshi.

• 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

  

  I practiced in a branch of Katori Shinto-ryu hosted at Capital Aikikai in Silver Spring, until early 2015. Some photos from workshops and seminars from 2010 and 2014 can be found below.

• photos : Dewa Sanzan

  

  It was while visiting Dewa in 2005, especially Gassan Dai-jinja and the Haguro Shugen Honshu Kotaku-ji Shozen-in in Haguro-machi, that I made the decision to stop training in modern martial arts and instead focus my training efforts exclusively on classical and traditional, especially Taoist, approaches to martial culture.