Muzosa Bujinkan Dojo

Out of Africa

     A few weeks have passed since I returned from Africa. I’m looking forward to getting back to Hombu and catching up with the recent inspirations of Soke. The trip to Africa was more than expected and I want to[…]

New Book from Soke

Soke entered the Hombu Dojo with a black and white layout of his new book. We were able to see every page briefly. The book boasts wonderful photos. Many were taken by Sheila Haddad, Soke said. Soke also commented that[…]

New Jersey Bushinden Kai DVDs are now available. I have some in stock here in Japan. If you would like to purchase the double DVD set while visiting Japan, please contact me here or at tazshugyo@yahoo.com. I will also have[…]

Kihon Renshu

Soke recently stated at the end of class that everyone needs to practise the Kihon Happo and Gogyo no Kata. It was also reiterated by Noguchi Shihan that people need to train in lower kamae and not become lazy in[…]

Bujinkan South Africa

 I will be in South Africa in second week of August and I have had the honor of being invited by Buyu of the South Africa Bujinkan Dojo to lead some training. Please see the details below.  The training will[…]

Book of Five Weapons

     Recently, Soke has been talking about the evolution of war and how the proper study of Budo requires being in touch with the current times and how we must adapt this to our training.  Recently, there have been several[…]

Luke Molitor Seminar (May 15-16, 2010)

Photo by Nancy Kelly This last weekend (May 15-16), the Muzosa Dojo was kind enough to bring Luke Molitor back to NYC for Part II of his wonderful sword seminar series. I will begin by saying that I am biased[…]

Summer Seminar Series

Learn the Foundation of Bujinkan!Masaaki Hatsumi has often stated that the Bujinkan is not about techniques. There are skills that are required to be the natural habits, the ‘default settings’ when do...

Roles in the Bujinkan

The concept of role has been a source of tremendous angst for many people in the Bujinkan over the years. Roles are considered to be a building block of sociology as an academic discipline, and so it might be informative[…]

Dusting off the blog….

After some urging from friends, and a very long online absence, I have decided to restart this blog. While there are many dojo-specific blogs written by instructors for their students, there are very few blogs out there that are targeted[…]