Enjoy Naginata with national champion!
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)!
Contents
⑴Introduction at Atelier & Gallery Ichirin
⑵Change clothes(hakama: traditional Japanese clothing for playing Naginata)
※Wearing hakama is optional(+5,000 yen/person)
(If you don’t choose wearing hakama plan, you’ll go to the beach directly)
⑶Naginata experience at Yuigahama Beach
(In case of rain, you will learn behavior of wa(Japanese-style) with wearing hakama)
⑷Go to photogenic spot and take souvenir photos(you can choose some places:local shrine, temples, Japanese old architecs etc.)
⑸Change clothes
⑹Enjoy Matcha(traditional Japanese tea) at Atelier & Gallery Ichirin
《Notes》
・Wearing hakama is optional plan(+5,500 yen(tax in)/person). Please write it on the form.
Feel your body move
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.
Naginata & Naginatajutsu
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 Naginata is a polearm and one of several varieties of traditionally made Japanese blades.
Naginata were originally used by the samurai class of feudal Japan, as well as by ashigaru and sōhei.
Instructor
Reiho Sato(佐藤 令歩)
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.
Qualifications
- Certified Sports Instructor(Japan Sports Association)
- Fifth degree of Naginata
- Self Massage Instructor
- Certified Mobility Band Instructor
