Iwami soke goes to Itsukushima-Jinja to participate to the Grand Koryu exhibition with 35 ryuha (old martial art schools) organised by the Nihon Kobudo Kyokai. 9 deshis went with him: N. Nagaoka, T. Kajiya, Th. Comont, Th. Mallinos, N. Momozono, J. Sprojcar, T. Tanaka, S. Fugono, and K. Haraguchi.
Photography by Corinne Babled. Reproduction forbidden.
Organised by Kai Koskinen at Aikiken Dojo
Photographies by Thierry Comont. Unauthorised reproduction forbidden.
October 17th: hono-embu at Tonoue-Jinja shinto shrine in Moji (Kitakyushu), with Iwami-Soke and Thierry Comont.
October 18th: Soden-Kinen-shiki ceremony in front of Seishin-chokudo monument (hono-embu with Iwami-Soke and Nagaoka-sensei, public keiko with all the students), then on stage next to Kokura castle (17th and 18th, Kokurajo-Matsuri, castle festvivity), the townhall asked us to prresent Hyoho Niten ichi Ryu for 30 minutes (15 mn Niten + 15 mn kembu).
Iwami soke and Thierry Comont
Yuki MEGURO, a movie actor who has performed as a samourai, meets Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu headmaster to learn about the real techniques of Musashi.
Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu exhibition with Iwami soke for a religious party 
, shinto shrine south of Kitakyushu.
Pavel Rankin, from Canada but now in Yamagata, comes to train with Iwami soke in Kokura.
Dragos Chiric and Diana Jurcut, from Romania, come to study Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu with Iwami soke in Kokura.
