kendōka

plural kendōkas

1. alternativeAlternative form of kendoka.

   Like the other two dozen kendōka in the training hall, Yukiko was dressed in flowing blue hakama pantaloons, padded arm guards, and a lacquer chest protector.

   2021, Marc Cameron, chapter 32, in Tom Clancy’s Chain of Command (Jack Ryan), [London]: Penguin Books, →ISBN

   3 more examples

   The first of these three attacks involves controlling the point of the shinai. Each kendōka actually sets out to control the centre of his opponent with the point of his own shinai.

   1987, Michel Random, translated by Cyprian P. Blamires, “The way of the sword and kendō”, in Japan: Strategy of the Unseen: A Guide for Westerners to the Mind of Modern Japan, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Crucible, →ISBN, part 2 (Tactics and Strategy in the Samurai Tradition), page 113

   But he had not thought that the man—a burly kendōka with “a physique like a heavy tank,” who was “extremely polite and deferential,” yet highly competitive, a man of “straightforward seriousness coupled with perseverance”—would also write.

   2012, Naoki Inose with Hiroaki Sato, “Shinpūren, Men of the Divine Wind”, in Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima, Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, page 464

   The two kendōkas were engaged in a fierce duel, and the wooden swords they held with both hands quivered with each clash of blades that resounded across the gym.

   2025, Ethan Cole, “Kendo Gym”, in Peerless Genius System, volume I