The All Japan Championship, which decides the best kendo in Japan, was held, and Kagoshima representative Keita Hoshiko won the championship for the first time.
At the All Japan Championship of Kendo, which was held at Nippon Budokan for the first time in three years, 64 people who won the qualifying rounds nationwide competed for the best in Japan in a tournament format on the 4th.
In the finals, Kagoshima's 23-year-old Hoshiko and Fukui's 27-year-old Kohei Hayashida, who are aiming for their first victory, met.
In the match, Hoshiko took one on the "face" after 1 minute and 40 seconds from the start, and after that, he decided the "face" again after 3 minutes and 20 seconds and won "two wins". I won my first victory.
Hoshiko "Very relieved"
Keita Hoshiko, who won the number one spot in Kendo in Japan, said, "I am very relieved," and said the joy of winning for the first time.
Looking back on the match with Kohei Hayashida, a senior at the University of Tsukuba who played in the final, "Hayashida is a very respected senior who takes care of me, such as coming to the university training, so I jumped in with the intention of borrowing my heart." I was talking.
Hoshiko has set the goal of winning the tournament for the third time in a row, saying, "I'm still an immature swordfighter, and I think my dream is yet to come, so I want to work hard again so that I can come back to this stage next year." Was tightening.