Keiko (Training) means
“Think About the Old Days”
Without that, We Cannot Keep The Tradition
My sensei, Masayoshi Miyazaki, is now 74 years old now. As you can see in the video below, his kendo is strong. He has a variety of techniques that you cannot really see very often nowadays, well not around where I live anyway.
Of course, he learned from pre-war senseis and to name a few these are the senseis he learned from (that I know of) …
- Kinnosuke Ogawa, 10-dan
- Hidenosuke Koshikawa, Hanshi
- Toshio Matsumoto sensei, 9-dan
- Juichi Tsurumaru sensei, 9-dan
- Keisuke Murayama, 8-dan
He has great kendo, knowledge and kokoro (or heart). However, he is not getting any younger and his health is not in his best any more.
This year, I decided to invite him to US to share his knowledge and techniques of kendo with my students before it is too late.
This time, we would like to spend a lot of time with him so we can learn
- kendo techniques
- kendo kata
- his memories of great sensei like 10-dan and 9-dan sensei
- great stories about them
- what he learned from them
I would like to learn from him things that we cannot learn at “normal” training.
So I need your help. Please purchase this fundraising T-shirt or donate to this great kendo lesson.
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PS…It has cost me to get him more than $4,000. His ticket is $2296.70. Since he does not speak any English at all, I am going to escort him from Japan to Indiana and from Indiana to Chicago where he will get a flight back to Japan. And my ticket in total is $1,902.87. That is only airfare.
At the moment, Indianapolis Kendo Club has raised $1,265.18 as of October 6, 2015. And with many many people who showed their support by donating money or buying t-shirt, the airfare will be covered soon ($149.89 to go!). But that is only airfare. We still need to raise fund to feed him and transfer him. That is why I am doing this fundraising.
And the meaning of the calligraphy is here!