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Ichimura Sensei had arranged in 1985 for his eager iaido
student Martin Stelander to go to Yokohama, Japan, to
train under an iaido master called Gakudo Takada (kyoshi
8th dan at that time). Already the year after that Takada
Sensei visited Uppsala, Sweden, to instruct in a five-day
iaido seminar end May/beginning June. It was then that
the first Finnish students took their Muso Shinden ryu
grading tests.
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In April/May 1988 a four-day seminar was held in Helsinki.
Since then Takada Sensei has come to Scandinavia every second
year to instruct seminars in Uppsala and Helsinki. Lately
the seminars have lasted a couple of weeks and the keenest
students have been following Sensei from Helsinki to Uppsala
and vice versa.
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In 1996 Takada Sensei was granted the grade of hanshi by
his association Dai Nippon Iaido Renmei. The person responsible
for Muso Shinden ryu activity in Finland is today Mr. Jukka
Helminen, iaido 5th dan (Dai Nippon Iaido Renmei).
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