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**Kragh** · 09-18-2006, 04:40 PM

In Japan I've never heard kendoka or kenshi used to discribe a modern practitioner of kendo. The suffix -ka is usually used to discribe someones occupation, so unless you make a living doing kendo it's probably not appropriate. Kenshi sounds to me like the samurai version of an old-west gunslinger.

It seems like there was a thread about this on here recently...

09-18-2006, 04:40 PM	#7
Kragh Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 483 Senior Member	In Japan I've never heard kendoka or kenshi used to discribe a modern practitioner of kendo. The suffix -ka is usually used to discribe someones occupation, so unless you make a living doing kendo it's probably not appropriate. Kenshi sounds to me like the samurai version of an old-west gunslinger. It seems like there was a thread about this on here recently...
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