Budo Festival 2020 at Yokohama Budokan
On Saturday 19 December 2020, my teacher Nakano Sensei appeared at Budo Festival 2020 at the Yokohama Budokan as the representative of the Kanagawa Aikido Federation, and I went along to assist him. It was terribly cold, though, perhaps because of the ventilation, and I had a hard time with my body all hunched up… The Yokohama Budokan is a magnificent venue, impressive enough to host international-scale events, and Budo Festival 2020 was apparently originally planned as its opening event this summer, to show budo as part of Japanese culture to the foreign visitors coming to Japan for the Tokyo Olympics. That was not to be, unfortunately, but it is to be held again next September, so I hope that in 2021 at least some spectators will be able to attend.
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