Hokubei Budogu - Kendo Shop in North America

06/13/2026

Wishing every competitor the best at the 2026 Baltimore-Annapolis Kendo Tournament!! Gambatte!!

06/10/2026

We can laser engrave your name on the shinpanki for you.
Gogi all you want with these.

06/08/2026

Kendo is awesome but smells. But with Zeroff, you don’t need to stink.

06/08/2026

Don’t get kicked out of your dojo for having stinky bogu.

Zeroff deodorizer is mineral based.
Safe for your skin, and safe if inhaled. Commercial stink killers out there can cause respiratory problems and skin breakouts. Your bogu is precious, but so are you. Spray bottle and refills are available on our site.

Save a nose today.

06/07/2026

Some of our Team Hokubei Budogu guys competed at the Vancouver cup, and we also did our very first small vendor table in Canada at the Vancouver Kendo Club Tournament. We will see our friends in Canada more often with improved product choices and display. Special thanks to for helping out!

05/23/2026

Battle of budogus

05/14/2026

Hokubei Budogu will be at the 2026 Go Ryu Ki in Chicago on May 24th as an official tournament vendor.

To celebrate, we are doing a flash sale on these awesome event t-shirts! Order by this Sunday, May 17th, and pick up your shirt directly at our vendor table during the event.

Available now on usakendo.com under the “Kendo Swag” section.

We look forward to seeing everyone in Chicago!

https://www.usakendo.com/products/2026-go-ryu-ki-tshirt

Limited commemorative t-shirt for the 2026 Go Ryu Ki Taikai. Pre-order by May 15 for event pickup. Sizes S–3XL.

05/14/2026

We were going to create a post but California Budogu said it everything we wanted to say 😅😅

Thank you!

Big announcement: We’re just 50 days away from the All US Kendo Championships— the largest kendo event in the United States✨🇺🇸

We’re excited to officially reveal that California Budogu will be a sponsor of the event alongside our Budogu Buddy, Hokubei Budogu.

Hokubei and California Budogu may be rivals, but we’re also good friends who constantly push each other to become two of the leading Budogu suppliers in United States. Our cooperation and dedication to the Kendo community are exactly why organizations like AUSKF continue to trust and support us✨　At the end of the day, we both share the same goal— supporting the US Kendo community from coast to coast and helping it continue to grow!! 😊

We also have some HUGE announcements that we will be revealing as we get closer to the tournament, so stay tuned 👀

We can’t wait to see everyone in Vegas!!

www.californiabudogu.com
California Budogu

05/12/2026

Thank you for the postcard ! Glad you had a good time!

05/12/2026

Big news for our Canadian kendo friends.

Hokubei Budogu is now preparing operations in Vancouver, Canada to better serve the Canadian kendo community directly. This means faster domestic shipping within Canada and no more cross-border tariff concerns from USA shipments on Canadian orders.

As Hokubei Budogu continues to grow, one of our biggest goals is making quality kendo equipment more accessible and convenient for the community. We are excited for this next step and thankful for all the support from our friends across Canada.

More updates coming soon. 🇨🇦

FYI, Hokubei means North America :) This was planned from day one, we are now starting to execute it.