Ohio Budokan

10/08/2026

Our study group will be attending! And we encourage anyone interested in Iaido to attend as well. This is going to be a great opportunity to get in depth training from excellent instructors.

10/02/2026

Please join Team Ohio Budokan as we support the Children's Brain Tumor Foundation.

If you can join us, please register for the walk using this link, https://cbtf.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/neonevents/events?path=%2Fportal%2Fevents%2F49547, and register for a ticket by entering your information, typing Ohio Budokan as the team, and select the option that you are a supporter of the team.

If you can, please make a donation at our donor page, https://cbtf.app.neoncrm.com/fundraiser/OhioBudokan and join the team!

Thank you for the support!

09/27/2026

Our movie club continues! Our meeting today about Yojimbo and Sanjuro was a great time, but now we have to prepare for spooky season. For our next meeting we will be watching Kwaidan, a 1964 anthology of ghost stories, and Juon: The Grudge, the first theatrical release in the long running horror series. Our discussion will be held in November, with the exact date TBD.

If you're interested in joining the discussion, just send us a message and we'll get you on the list for more information! The movie club is free, even if you aren't member of the dojo!

09/23/2026

Members of our Iaido study group will be attending! And if you're in the Dayton area and want to get started sooner than December, you're welcome to join our study group and get working on the fundamentals.

From core iaido concepts to advanced training and demonstrations under pressure, this is the ultimate end-of-year summit at JMAC.

Saturday, December 12th: 2:00-6:30pm
Sunday, December 13th: 8:45-10:15am

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09/19/2026

Due to schedule conflicts, the Iaido group will not be meeting Sunday September 20th. Sessions will resume as normal the 26th.

09/10/2026

Our Iaido group will not be meeting at Ohio Budokan on Saturday the 12th due to us travelling elsewhere for some extra training instead. We will be meeting the 13th as usual.

08/05/2026

We've had a promotion in our Genwakids class! Let's give Bronx some congratulations! Osu!

08/02/2026

Another great discussion in our book club today. Everyone was a fan of The Easy Life in Kamusari and curious about reading the follow up novel eventually. We also discussed some of Shion Miura's other works that have been made into shows and movies, primarily the animated shows Run With the Wind and The Great Passage. All three works share a focus on the passion and drive necessary to achieve fairly mundane things that many people take for granted, as well as the community that makes those achievements both possible and rewarding. We also talked about the Mafia and yakuza for a bit as well and I don't totally remember how that happened, but it was interesting.

Our next book will be The Man Who Died Seven Times, described as a cozy time loop murder mystery. The meeting will be held in October, the exact day TBD. If you're interested in joining us for the discussion send us a message to get on the email list and join in!

07/24/2026

We got more photos from last Saturday's tameshigiri. So many happy faces. We're all looking forward to next year already.