Enjoy Naginata with national champion!

Naginata Experience is rare experience even in Japan!

Naginatajutsu is the Japanese martial art of wielding the naginata. The naginata is a weapon resembling the European glaive and the Chinese guan dao. Most naginatajutsu practiced today is in a modernized form, a gendai budō, in which competitions also are held.

The instructor, Reiho Sato won the Naginata title at National Sports Festival in 1992.
She will teach you how to grip, swing down wooden naginata sword from scratch.
Of course, your can wear hakama(traditional Japanese clothing for playing martial arts including
Naginata:optional service)!
Also, let’ s taking photos at photogenic places and enjoy Matcha(traditional Japanese tea)!

Kind of meditation?

The key to swinging the Naginata lies in how you move your body.
By letting the weight of the sword do the work and moving without force, your core naturally finds balance, your breathing steadies, and you ease into a meditative state.

Booking Page

Naginata Experience
https://kamakura-experience.jp/experience/naginata/

Instructor’s profile

Reiho Sato

She won the Naginata title at National Sports Festival in 1992.
She studied the Yabunouchi school of samurai tea ceremony and practices Kado(the Way of Flowers, kind of the Japanese art of flower arrangement) in the Ikenobo tradition.
Drawing on her personal experience, she has long been teaching the way of walking with grace and mindfulness.
She later opened “Refeel Body” in Hase, Kamakura,
where she now teaches traditional wa-style (Japanese-style) etiquette, which focuses on body awareness, posture, and graceful movement.