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**Lkemybab** · 09-19-2006, 03:10 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...

actually kenshi is used quite often. If you read about kendo you will see it a lot.
Kendoka....hmm kind of rare.

09-19-2006, 03:10 PM	#18
Lkemybab Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 420 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... actually kenshi is used quite often. If you read about kendo you will see it a lot. Kendoka....hmm kind of rare.
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