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u/spatiality · 4 pointsr/kendo

Ozawa sensei wrote a quite thorough book called Kendo: The Definitive Guide

I also reference this Japanese-English dictionary of kendo from time to time: https://www.e-bogu.com/Kendo-Dictionary-p/kok-pub-boo-kendictionary-.htm

u/paizuri_dai_suki · 2 pointsr/kendo

There usually aren't schools that teach all of the arts you listed. I know of a place on the East Coast of the United States that teaches all you listed except jukendo/tankendo though and has a WMA group. It is going to take a lot more than 20 hours of practice to become competent at any of those weapons and some of those arts are kata exclusive, or predominantly practice as kata.

I was part of a club about 10 years back that used this as their text book, but I think it might be discontinued.

https://www.amazon.com/Kendo-Definitive-Guide-Hiroshi-Ozawa/dp/4770021194

The kendo reader might have some material applicable to your WMA practices: http://www.kendo.org.uk/files/KendoReader.pdf

I don't think you are going to get much out of practicing any of these arts. From my conversations with various HEMA people, the one thing you likely would get out of kendo that isn't as prevalent in HEMA is the focus on seme, but that takes years to develop.