Nabeshima Cup Kendo Taikai

The Nabeshima Cup Invitational Kendo Tournament started in 1992 as a goodwill Dallas/Fort Worth Kendo & Iaido Kyokai (DFWKIK) club tournament. The tournament has expanded to include dojos throughout the Southwest region of the United States.

The Nabeshima Cup is an individual tournament hosted by the DFWKIK and is open to participants of Ikkyu (1st level) and below. Traditionally, the Nabeshima Cup is a spring tournament held in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in conjunction with the Texas Open Kendo Taikai.

Starting in 2005, the Nabeshima Cup (originally Sandan (3rd Degree) and below) was changed to be for participants Ikkyu and below. A separate divisional Taikai was held for Shodan (1st Degree) to Sandan. Below is a brief summary of past tournament results.



Youth Division (ages 10-13) Results:

Tournament
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
2011 Tiarnan Marsten (Kent) Keeley McManus (Kent) Eugene Lee (Austin) Daniel Nicoletti (Little Rock)
Kantosho (Kiyoshi Abe Fighting Spirit): Justin Kim (Tulsa)
2009 Kai Imamura (Little Rock) Sora Imamura (Little Rock) Eugene Lee (Dallas) Tiarnan Marsten (Des Moines)
Kantosho (Kiyoshi Abe Fighting Spirit): Tiarnan Marsten (Des Moines)
2007 Yun Ji Kim (Austin) Riku Imamura (Little Rock) Kyle Anderson (Houston) Kai Imamura (Little Rock)



Youth Division (ages 14-16) Results:

Tournament
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
2011 Kenneth Nicoletti (Little Rock) Kyle Anderson (Houston) Kai Imamura (Little Rock) Matthew Yang (New Orleans)
Kantosho (Kiyoshi Abe Fighting Spirit): Kenichiro Koga (Houston)
2009 Hyun-sik Kong (Houston) Sang Ji (Houston) Riki Clement (Houston)
Kantosho (Kiyoshi Abe Fighting Spirit): Andy Koke (Dallas)



Mudansha Division (Ikkyu & below) Results:

Tournament
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
2011 - 13th Joao Lourenco (Dallas) Adam Schmidt (Dallas) Sanghyun Ko (College Station) Andy Koke (Dallas)
Kantosho (Kiyoshi Abe Fighting Spirit):
Terry McManus (Kent)
Kenny Phan (Houston)
2009 - 12th Hendrik Winata (Austin) Jeffrey Koke (Dallas) Joshua Ferguson (Kent) Sanghyun Ko (College Station)
Kantosho (Kiyoshi Abe Fighting Spirit):
Ahmad Abdulla (Tulsa)
Nancy Maza (Houston)
2007 - 11th Gerald Tan (Austin) Theo Kouadri (Dallas) Alex Croll (Oklahoma City) Guido Stucco (St. Louis)
Kantosho (Kiyoshi Abe Fighting Spirit):
Alanda Foster (Omaha)
Leelund Kim (Houston)
2005 - 10th William Velazquez (Houston) Gerald Tan (Austin) Benjamin Lowe (Texas A&M) Krutarth Triyedi (Dallas)
2003 - 9th Makoto Murayama (Houston) Jeffrey Chen (Austin) Takero Kan (Dallas) Hyun Kim (Arkansas)
2001 - 8th Takayuki Otani (Houston) Tetsuro Tsushima (Austin) Bryan Mosley (Oklahoma City) Makoto Murayama (Houston)
1999 - 7th Kevin Abe (Dallas) Paul Westblade (Memphis) David Cooper (Dallas) Kwang Chung (Dallas)
1997 - 6th Kevin Abe (Dallas) Darren Craig (Houston) Paul Westblade (Memphis) Miki Kikuchi (Austin)
1996 - 5th Darren Craig (Houston) Corey Sharman (Dallas) Yuji Ikeda (Austin) Kevin Abe (Dallas)
1995 - 4th Darren Craig (Houston) Russell Ichimura (Dallas) NA NA
1994 - 3rd Russell Ichimura (Dallas) Darren Craig (Houston) NA NA
1993 - 2nd Russell Ichimura (Dallas) Louis Bonham (Houston) Carl Basham (Dallas) NA
1992 - 1st Carl Basham (Dallas) Isao Ebihara Russell Ichimura (Dallas) Pierre Dakin (France)



Women's Division (Sandan and below) Results:

Tournament
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
2011 Apinya Premprajaks (Dallas) Huong Dang (Austin) Masako Wright (Salt Lake City) Alexandra Darrah (Austin)
Kantosho (Kiyoshi Abe Fighting Spirit):
Janet Shim (Austin)
Lauren Menkemeller (Dallas)



Yudansha Division (Shodan to Sandan) Results:

Tournament
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
2011 An Giang (Little Rock) Michael Lindsay (Tulsa) Yong Cho (Dallas) Yuta Imoto (Houston)
Kantosho (Kiyoshi Abe Fighting Spirit):
Luis Angeli (Arvada)
Shaw Furukawa (Oklahoma City)
2009 Katsuhiro Iwao (Arlington) Eric Koyama (Laredo) Jonathan Scherer (Seattle) Attila Nemeti (Moorpark)
Kantosho (Kiyoshi Abe Fighting Spirit):
An Giang (Little Rock)
Jin Young Koo (Dallas)
2007 An Giang (Little Rock) Jeff Chen (Austin) Khanh Nguyen (Austin) Masayuki Koyama (Laredo)
Kantosho (Kiyoshi Abe Fighting Spirit): Phillip Panteloukas (Orlando)
2005 Bryan Mosely (Oklahoma City) Brian Cooper (Longmont) Manny DaCosta (Austin) Steve Sasaki (Omaha)