Budokan Lausanne Kendo Club

From Kendo-world.com


(kendo grades, Jan heisei 19-AD 2003)


634,678 (shodan)
385,890 (nidan)
162,061 (sandan)
41,463 (yondan)
38,573 (godan)
14,011 (rokudan)
11,877 (nanadan)
466 (hachidan) (about 30 woman)
13 (ky?-dan-9° Dan) only 4 still active: Inoue sensei, Okuzono sensei, Taniguchi sensei e Kurasawa sensei.
1,288,033 (All Japan Total) (women 28%)


Shogo
19,258 (Renshi)
18,000 (Kyoshi)
376 (Hanshi)


P.S. There had been only five 10° dan in kendo history. From 1995 the grades 9° and 10° cannot be awarded….


P.P.S. The total 9°dan ever awarded seems to be about twenty…