Senbatsu kendo tournament of high school
student is held in Aichi prefecture every year at spring. This tournament is
very important for high school kendo players.
Only teams win preliminary in each
prefecture have entitled to participate. Therefore, players are generally competitive
from 1st round and winning this tournament means the champion of all
domestic Japan teams in spring.
This tournament is known as one of big four
championship of high school. (others; Kaiseiki, Gyokuryuku, and Interhigh).
The tournament started at 1992, whose
winner was Ikuei (Hyogo prefecture). Surprisingly, Kyusyugakuin (Kumamoto
prefecture) high school won 6 consecutive years by 2018, and one big
interest of audience is “Is it possible to win this year? (Or stop the
record)”.
The following is the final match, the red
corner is Kyusyugakuin and white is Meiho (Oita).
Briefly, I would like to explain the
result, so first Senpo and Jiho drew the matches.
At Chuken, Kyusyugakuin got lead. At 13:52,
red player chuken decided Kote. White player for that moment, drew backward a
bit. Though white player tried to stroke Men and one judge for white, red
player’s Kote outreached its momentum and precision, two judge admitted for red
side.
White Fukusho and Taisho player were eagar
to get back the score, but red side players were very good at defense and
couldn’t return the score.
So, red side Kyusyugakuin is congratulation
for 7th serial win. Incredible!
We saw the team this year this February at
another tournament, and to be honest, we didn’t expect so much because previous
years’ team were much more powerful. Although many matches were marginal
victory like this final match, they did win this year also and continued the
winning record. It was extraordinary.
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