The following is a
list of dojos affiliated with the International Kyudo
Federation:
United States of America.
There have been four national archery seminars in America sanctioned by the All
Nippon Kyudo Federation: 1993, 1994, 1996, and 1997.
The fifth is scheduled to be held in July of 1998 in San Jose, California.
In the 1996 seminar in San Jose, California, eight American federations formed the
American Kyudo Council for the purpose of assisting
the growth of kyudo in America. Dan DeProspero,
president of the North Carolina Kyudo Federation, was
elected chairman of the council.
Arizona:
Mr. Bill Savary
Arizona Kyudo Kai
P.O. Box 815
Vail, AZ 85641
email:bsavary@mindspring.com
California:
Northern
California
Kyudo Federation
Mrs. Yoshiko Buchanan
Shiseikan Dojo
email:eclay.buchanan@microfocus.com
Mr. Earl Hartman
Seishinkan Dojo
email:earlsh@aol.com
Southern California
Fullerton Union High School-Men's
Gym
201 East Chapman Ave.
Fullerton, CA 92832
Practices are on Sundays from 1-5pm. Please check
www.southerncaliforniakyudorenmei.com
for updates on the schedule.
Georgia:
Joseph Reid, President
2527 Foster Ridge Ct., NE
Atlanta, GA 30345
email: georgiakyudo@resallia.com
Bi Toku Kyudo Kai
Ed Symmes
3965 Briarcliff Road
Atlanta, GA 30345
email: ecsymmes@aol.com
Mr. Blue Spruell
121 Kirk Crossing
Decatur, GA 30030
email:blues@mindspring.com
http://www.mindspring.com/~kyudo/
Hawaii:
Bishop Gyokuei Matsuura
Soto Mission of Hawaii
1708 Nuuanu
Avenue
Honolulu, Hawaii
96817
Indiana:
Mr. Philip Swain
Wadokan Kyudo Dojo
197 East U.S. 136
Lizton,
IN 46149
Nevada:
Mr. Don Wudarski
410 Aloha Drive
Henderson, NV 89015
email: wudarski@nsf.org
North Carolina:
Mr. Dan DeProspero
North Carolina Kyudo Federation
501 Sleepy Valley Road
Apex, NC 27502
email:meishin@kyudo.com
Texas:
Mark C. Wegmann
2240 Homeway Cir.
Dallas, TX
75228
(214) 324-8906
email:wjreid@airmail.net
Web: .http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Spa/6877.
South Carolina:
Mr. Aaron Blackwell
South Carolina
Kyudo Federation
1115 Neely Ferry Road
Simpsonville, SC
29680
Utah:
Mr. David Diguangco
Weber State University Kyudo Club
1039 Oxford Drive
Ogden, Utah 84403
email:an313@freenet.carleton.ca
tel (801) 479-8645
European Kyudo Federation:
The EKF has been holding annual kyudo seminars
sanctioned by the ANKF for many years. These seminars are very popular,
attracting several hundred archers to the two week event. The EKF seminars
rotate between countries and divided into three seperate
events spread over a two week period: an "A" seminar for 4th
dan and over, a "B" seminar for 2nd
and 3rd dan and a "C" seminar
for 1st dan and lower rank holders. The
EKF also sponsors an annual Inter-City Tournament and throughout the year many european federations and dojos sponsor seminars, tournaments and other kyudo events. Germany
has the largest number of archers by far of any country in Europe with a total
approaching one thousand archers and a kyudo group in
almost every state of Germany.
Rather than attempt to keep track of every organization in Europe and their
current addresses I will just list the main contacts of the German Kyudo Federation and the address of the link page of their
web site which will have more up to date information than I could maintain.
Präsident
Thomas Baer, Otto-Suhr-Allee 125, 10585 Berlin
Telefon 030-3470 7740, Fax 030-3470 7741
E-Mail: praesident@kyudo.de
Vizepräsidentin (Ausbildung)
Cornelia Brandl-Hoff, Volksdorfer Weg 50 R, 22393 Hamburg
Tel: und Fax: 040-6405795
E-Mail: vize-ausbildung@kyudo.de
Vizepräsident (Wettkampf)
Sorin Jurma, Telemannstraße 60, 20255 Hamburg
Telefon 040-4327 3081
E-Mail: vize-wettkampf@kyudo.de
Kassenwart
Günther Wiegand, Burgemeisterstraße 76, 12103 Berlin
Telefon 030-751 3237, Fax 030-7544 7746
E-Mail: kassenwart@kyudo.de
DKyuB-Konto: Deutscher Kyudo-Bund e.V., Postbank Hamburg (BLZ 200 100 20), Konto-Nr. 743174-205
Sachbearbeiter für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Klaus Giebel, Stiftmühlenbrink 34, 45134 Essen-Rellinghausen
Tel: 0201-461077, Fax: 0201-467348
E-Mail: pr-manager@kyudo.de
Ehrenpräsident (past president):
Feliks F. Hoff, Volksdorfer Weg 50 R, 22393 Hamburg
Tel. und Fax: 040-6405795
E-Mail: ehrenpraesident@kyudo.de
The
URL for the links page of the German Kyudo Federation
will quickly take you to the individual country webpages
and contact addresses for the member countries of the EKF:
http://home.t-online.de/home/stefan.sb.bertram/k-links.htm
Other Countries, IKYF
affiliated:
Brazil.
Mr.
Tomoyoshi Aoyama
Organizacao Avicola Goto Ltda.
Rod. Antonia Romano Schincariol, Km 103
San Palo, Brazil 127
Fax (0152) 51-4525
Non IKYF Affiliated Dojos:
Not
all dojos are ANKF affiliated. Some are associated
with zen temples or their
instructors, for one reason or another, choose not to affiliate with other
regional or national archery federations. As a result, maintaining current
contact names and addresses can be difficult. The following contacts are those
for organizations which I know are active:
Chozenji Zen Temple of
Hawaii.
Contact:
Institute of Zen Studies
3565 Kalihi
Street
Honolulu, HI 96819-3036
Phone: (808) 848-0390
FAX: (808) 848-0387
Email: staff@izs.org
or:
Setsuzan Kushner Roshi
301 South Bedford Street, Suite
219
Madison, WI 53703
Phone/Fax: (608) 833-8599
email:wibetsuin@aol.com
Shibata Kanjuro Sensei.
Mr.
Shibata Kanjuro XX, the hereditary bowmaker to the emperor of Japan
divides his time between Kyoto, Japan, and Boulder,
Colorado, in addition to teaching seminars in America, Canada,
and Europe.
Shibata
Kanjuro sensei's headquarters is located in Boulder, Colorado.
The web page for the Boulder
dojo (which has a VERY impressive picture of their azuchi)
is:
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/ryuko.
And
a nice overview of their approach to kyudo can be
found at:
http://www.zenko.org/index.htm
The
best list of Shibata sensei's dojos that I've found
so far is:
http://www.zenko.org/contact.html.
Shingetsu School of Kyudo.
The
following information about the Shingetsu School of Kyudo was received from Bob Fischer of the El Cerrito dojo and captures the essential
nature of their approach to kyudo:
Kyudo is a Japanese word that means the Way (do) of the Bow
(kyu). The Japanese bow is very large, supple, and is
made of wood and bamboo. In our modern technological society, why would someone
choose to pick up a simple bow and practice archery? No longer needed as a
weapon of war or as a hunting tool, people continue to use this long bow as a
way of spiritual training. In this school
of Kyudo,
the opening of the bow is a meditative act. Because the act of shooting
reflects the inner working, the heart, of the archer, Kyudo
is a path of discovery where the archer can find out much about him/herself. Kyudo provides the opportunity for the archer to abandon
all that is not true, to find a purity, and to continue
this state until the arrow, naturally, of its own, leaves the bow. When
practiced this way, Kyudo becomes a deeply spiritual
training.
Muyoshingetsu Dojo. We meet in El Cerrito for weekly practice on Saturday
morning, 10 AM, at the
Hillside Community
Church,
1422 Navellier St.
El Cerrito, CA
94530.
All
are most welcome! For more information please contact:
SFM
Dojo
c/o Bob Fischer
1423 Scott St.
El Cerrito, CA 94530
tel: 510-235-0421
email: Mr. Bob Fischer.
Italy
Mr.
Giuseppe Costa emailed me this web page for an independent school of the Heki Ryu Insai
Ha in Italy:
The Scuola delle Quattro Foglie:
www.kyudo.net
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