Our Instructors

Principal, Hanayagi Dancing Academy Hawaiʻi Foundation
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi and Tokyo, Japan

Hanayagi Mitsujyūrō (Bryson Goda) is a graduate of McKinley High School and Hawaiʻi Pacific University where he earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in business administration. Mitsujyūrō started his training in nihon buyō at the age of 4 under the instruction of Hanayagi Mitsuaki I, founder and first principal of HDAHF, and furthered his dance training in Tokyo with Hanayagi Sanichirō, Hanayagi Isumi, Hanayagi Tomo, Hanayagi Kusumitsu, and iemoto (headmaster) Hanayagi Jusuke IV. He was granted his natori name of Hanayagi Mitsujyūrō in 2011 and his shihan master license in 2014. He also studied nagauta shamisen under Kineya Satoshi from the age of 6, and further trained in Japan under the seventh-generation headmaster of Samon-Kai, Kineya Sakichi. He received the name of Kineya Sakio in 2008 and shihan master license in 2019.

Mitsujyūrō has performed extensively in Japan and Hawaiʻi and was awarded the coveted Ikusei-sho by Hanayagi Jusuke IV as an up-and-coming performing artist, and is recognized for his role in preserving and perpetuating the traditions of Hanayagi-ryū in Hawaiʻi.