Seiryukan Dojo

Seiryukan Dojo The Twin Cities' school of Seizankai Toyama Ryu Japanese swordsmanship

Meeting at the Center for Blade Arts, we teach the Toyama style of battojutsu ("sword-drawing") Japanese swordsmanship, first developed for the Imperial Japanese Army in 1925. Our practice teaches the safe handling of the Japanese sword and the eight kata (practice forms) of Toyama Ryu, with a special focus on tameshigiri—the "test cutting" with a live blade of targets that both offer resistance t

o the student and leave behind a visual record of the accuracy of the cut. Forms training is available to all students, but tameshigiri is limited to those 16 years of age or older with a minimum of six months' training.

03/15/2026

No class today 3/15! Everyone stay safe and enjoy the Snowpocalypse

Congratulations to Kyle Johnson, Mike Casmey, Kraig Finney and Kyle Reicks for passing their respective tests down in FL...
03/09/2026

Congratulations to Kyle Johnson, Mike Casmey, Kraig Finney and Kyle Reicks for passing their respective tests down in FL this weekend! Seiryukan Dojo is raising its ranks! As always, a huge thank you to Hataya Sensei for traveling from Japan and bringing Sato San, Sumida San and Harry Kearns - all who taught and helped make everything a great success!

Registration is now Live for the 2026 Midwest Seminars and Shinsas July 11&12 in Minneapolis Minnesota! Participants wi...
02/26/2026

Registration is now Live for the 2026 Midwest Seminars and Shinsas July 11&12 in Minneapolis Minnesota! Participants will have the opportunity to train and test in 3 different styles. Japanese Toyama Iaido Renmei Federation (ZNTIR), Japanese Batto Federation (ZNBDR) and the United States Batto Federation (USFBD).

Click the link below đŸ‘‡ for more information and to register.

https://forms.gle/7aMNL3U53LFTdYSq5

Addition information to follow in the next couple months.

Minneapolis, Minnesota will be hosting its first event of this scale on July 11 and 12! There will be opportunities to take seminars and test for rank in all 3 federations that are commonly practiced in our sword community: ZNBDR, ZNTIR, and USFBD. This is a 2 day event, and will be broken up into s...

02/03/2026

A successful day of sword sharpening seminar yesterday! Lots learned (I hope) by everyone, and all had I good time (I think)!

A few pictures taken by Robert Baron from Zentokan Dojo of me teaching a sword sharpening and maintenance seminar this p...
09/30/2025

A few pictures taken by Robert Baron from Zentokan Dojo of me teaching a sword sharpening and maintenance seminar this past Friday at the Seminars and Tai Kai hosted by Seibukan Dojo

Fantastic time had by all at the recent 2025 Seminars and Tai Kai hosted by Seibukan Dojo in Palm Bay FL!
09/30/2025

Fantastic time had by all at the recent 2025 Seminars and Tai Kai hosted by Seibukan Dojo in Palm Bay FL!

10/16/2024

A quick video from last weeks . Super fun time, BEAUTIFUL venue, and amazing people! Thanks again to Tim Clear for hosting!

Congratulations to Kyle Johnson for taking 1st in Nidan/Sandan Kata and 2nd place in Nidan/Sandan Tameshigiri! He made o...
09/14/2024

Congratulations to Kyle Johnson for taking 1st in Nidan/Sandan Kata and 2nd place in Nidan/Sandan Tameshigiri! He made off with some sweet swag this time!

09/23/2023

Thanks to Juni Sorerio for video taping this without me knowing. This is my winning cut for 1st place Tameshigiri in the Yondan and Above division at 2023 Palm Bay Tai Kai.

Great day at the 2023 Palm Bay Tai Kai hosted by Seibukan Dojo. Kyle and I had a great day of fellowship and competition...
09/23/2023

Great day at the 2023 Palm Bay Tai Kai hosted by Seibukan Dojo. Kyle and I had a great day of fellowship and competition!

There will be no class on Sunday 3/26. Please join us next week when everything resumes as normal! Any questions please ...
03/26/2023

There will be no class on Sunday 3/26. Please join us next week when everything resumes as normal! Any questions please notify me.

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4744 Chicago Avenue
Minneapolis, MN
55407

Opening Hours

2:30pm - 4:45pm

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