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The Geino Gakkai Academic Meeting of 2011
on the 19th of February, 2012

at the Warabi City Bunka Hall

The Geino Gakkai Academic Meeting of 2011 for Reading Research Papers will be held at the Warabi City Bunka Hall KURURU (Warabi City [Municipal] Culture Hall named KURURU) from 13:00 (Start accepting at 13:00) on Sunday the 19th of February, 2012.

Research Paper 13:30 - 14:00

Makoto Ikehara (Kawasaki City Nakahara Library)
"Koshogatsu toshite no Mushono no Dai Nembutsu" [Dai Nembutsu in Mushono as Lunar New Year]

Result Paper 14:00 - 14:30

Naoyuki Ogawa (Professor at Kokugakuin University)
"Kankoku Wido no Wondangje sonohoka" [Wondangje of the Wido island, South Korea, and so forth] (the ritual of which is often performed in the Wondang [House of Prayer])

-- A ten-minute recess --
Lecture 14:40 - 15:40

Isao Suto (Folk Performing Arts Photographer)
"Ema ni miru Matsuri to Geino" [festivals and performing arts viewed in votive wooden tablets (votive horse tablets)]

-- A ten-minute recess --
Demonstration/Haru no Kotobure "Harukoma Nitai" 15:50 - 16:25

"Hondo no Harukoma kara Okinawa no Juriuma Chondara Gei he" [how the art of Harukoma of the Japanese Mainland was becoming the art of Juriuma and Chondara of Okinawa] (DVD for 20 minutes)
Harukoma to Juriuma ⁽¹⁾ (Dance for about 15 minutes)
- Performers -- Reiko Asaka and Harukoma Juriuma Minzokugeino Kenkyu Kai

Closing Session 16:25 (estimated time)

(honorific prefixes omitted)

Auditing (Listening in) this entire academic meeting of Geino Gakka is free (No fee). Attendance and participation in this meeting from among non-Society members who are interested in the above rituals, traditions and performing arts are welcomed.

February 4, 2012 Hitomi

Warabi City Bunka Hall KURURU
Address: 1-23-8 Chuo, Warabi-shi, Saitama Prefecture 335-0004 Japan
About 4 minutes walk from the West exit of Warabi Station on JR Keihin-Tohoku Line.
From JR Ueno Station to Warabi Station by JR Keihin-Tohoku Line direct train: approximately 24 minutes.
From JR Tokyo Station to Warabi Station by JR Keihin-Tohoku Line direct train: approximately 31 minutes.
From JR Shinjuku Station to Warabi Station by JR Saikyo/Keihin-Tohoku Line via JR Akabane Station (transferring at JR Akabane station from JR Saikyo Line to JR Keihin-Tohoku Line): approximately 34 minutes.
From JR Kita-Asaka Station to Warabi Station by JR Musashino/Keihin-Tohoku Line via JR Minami-Urawa Station (transferring at JR Minami-Urawa station from JR Musashino Line to JR Keihin-Tohoku Line): approximately 18 minutes.

Note: (1) Harukoma [a spring horse; a colt in a spring field] is a "house to house visiting" performing art by "New Year well-wishing" Strolling Players with horse head-shaped props, which takes on the aspect of a ritual of "preliminary benediction."
Juriuma is a street performing art by a group of "Horse Dance" performers in a procession going through the streets of the former red light district, Tsuji in Naha City on Okinawa, on the 20th day of the 1st lunar month. "Juri" of Juriuma is a term referring to "harlot" and "uma" is "horse."
Additionally, Chondara that has been handed down to Awase in Okinawa City is a performing art which derives from "house to house visiting" performing arts of the Japanese Mainland. The art of Chondara consists of four parts, the third part of which is Harukoma-esque in appearance.
cf. The section "Harukoma," the section "Juriuma," and the section "Chondara" in Kojiro Nakai and Masahiro Nishitsunoi and Haruo Misumi eds., Minzoku Geino Jiten [Fork Performing Arts Dictionary] (Japan: Tokyodo Shuppan, 1981).

The 5th Kumano-gaku Forum on January 21st, 2012

at the Meiji University Academy Hall

Centering upon the sacredness of "Nachitaki-zu" [a National Treasure picture of Nachi-no-taki waterfall], the 5th Kumano-gaku [Study of Kumano] Forum will be held at the Meiji University Academy Hall on the third floor of the Academy Common in the Surugadai Campus on the 21st of January, 2012.

Keynote Lecture "Jumanokudo no Kanata ni Kokoro wo hasete" [directing one's heart to a region one trillion miles from the earth (Paradise, Eternity)]
- by Tetsuo Yamaori (Religion Scholar)
Special Lecture "'Nachitaki-zu' ni semaru" [getting to (the heart of) "Nachitaki-zu"]
- by Ken Shimizu (Researcher at Nara National Museum)
Special Lecture "Shizen-hyogen no Higashi to Nishi" [the oriental and occidental expressions of nature]
- by Shuji Takashina (Director of Ohara Museum of Art)
Kumano Waroda "Ima 'Nachitaki-zu' ga katarikakeru-mono" [that which 'Nachitaki-zu' talks to us now]
- Religion Scholar Tetsuo Yamaori
- Director of Ohara Museum of Art Shuji Takashina
- Assistant Director of Nezu Museum Hiroko Nishida
- Researcher at Nara National Museum Ken Shimizu
- Professor at Meiji University Masahiko Hayashi

Auditing (Listening in) the 5th Kumano-gaku Forum is free (No fee). But you need to apply in advance to participate in this forum. The Office of the Meiji University Liberty Academy will accept the first 1000 persons.
Meiji University Liberty Academy official Web site
"Meiji Daigaku Liberty Academy" [Japanese]
URL: http://academy.meiji.jp/

December 23, 2011 Hitomi

The Meiji University Museum Event
"Minshu no Zuzo Ten"

Research Results of Kokusai Zuzo Kaidoku Kenkyu Kai

The Meiji University Museum Event, "Minshu no Zuzo Ten" [an exhibition of popular iconography], will be held from August 21 to 28, 2011 at the Meiji University Museum in Tokyo. Admission is free.

This is a special event to show a part of the research results of Kokusai Zuzo Kaidoku Kenkyu Kai [international iconology research group] that has taken up various iconographies of Japan and overseas, into which were put people's "prayers" (Inori) and "reverence and awe" (Ifu) for life and death at the core of human existence. The carefully-selected materials by Kokusai Zuzo Kaidoku Kenkyu Kai will be exhibited to the public.

July 31, 2011 Hitomi

The 31st Karukaya Festival
A "Performing Arts Appreciation" Evening

August 4, 2011

From 18:30 on Thursday the 4th of August, 2011, the 31st "Karukaya Eennichi Geino Kansho no Yube" [Karukaya Festival Performing Arts Appreciation Evening] presided over by Professor Masahiko Hayashi will be held at a temple that has requickened Etoki in the modern world, namely, Karukaya-san Saiko-ji in Nagano.

1 Buddhist Service
2 Kamishibai [a picture-card show] titled "Ishidomaru no O-hanashi" [the story (tale) of Ishidomaru] by Ms. Tamae Takesawa
3 Rakugo [traditional Japanese sit-down comedy] titled "Katabo" [One end (the other end) of the pole to carry a coffin] by the Rakugo Storyteller Kairakutei Kyoshi
4 Etoki entitled "Karukaya Doshin Ishidomaru Go-shinshi Go-eden" [the pictures depicting sequences of events of the lives of father (Monk Karukaya) and son (Ishidomaru)] by Ms. Shigeko Takesawa
5 Rakugo titled "Kowakare" [Parting from children (a classic story in the genre of Ninjobanashi)] by the Rakugo Master Sanyutei Kyoraku
-- With Prof. Masahiko Hayashi presiding

Admission to this "Karukaya Eennichi Geino Kansho no Yube" event is free.

July 12, 2011 Hitomi

The 2011 Geino Gakkai Geino Seminar
Under the theme of "Nagauta no Hanashi, Are Kore"

July 23, 2011

On Saturday the 23rd of July, 2011, the annual Geino Seminar will be held by Geino Gakkai at the Lecture Hall of the main building of Kanda Gaigo Gakuin (Kanda Institute of Foreign Languages). The theme of this year's Geino Seminar of Geino Gakkai is "Nagauta no Hanashi, Are Kore" [A talk on Nagauta, this, that, and the other], and is to give an account of Nagauta,^(a) with Nagauta music presentations.

The 2011 Geino Gakkai General Assembly 13:30 - 14:15 (Members of Geino Gakkai only)
The 2011 Geino Seminar 15:00 - 16:40 (Doors open for general participants before 15:00)

"Nagauta no Hanashi, Are Kore"
- Talk by Ikeda Koichi (Professor Emeritus at Kanda University of International Studies)
- Talk and Singing by Kineya Yoshimaru
- Samisen Performance by Kineya Rokukoro

The 2011 Geino Seminar Closing Session 16:40 (estimated time)

Auditing (Listening in) this Geino Seminar of Geino Gakka is free. Attendance and participation from among non-Society members who are interested in traditional Japanese music and its associated performing arts are welcomed.

July 6, 2011 Hitomi

(a) Nagauta might well be called a summarization (or a culmination) of traditional Japanese music (Hogaku).
Nagauta: ballads sung to the samisen (shamisen) accompaniment, sometimes with other instruments, which were originally developed for use in Kabuki in late seventeenth-century or early eighteenth-century Edo out of long recitational songs from the Kamigata region and then has become very diverse in form, having absorbed the lyrics and melodies of various popular old-style Japanese songs.

Fushidansekkyo Missionary Assembly at Tsumura Betsuin in Osaka
as a "Shinran Shonin 750-kai-daionki" commemorative
and "Higashi Nihon Daishinsai" charitable event

August 3rd, 2011

On Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011, "Shinran Shonin 750-kai-daionki Kinen and Higashi Nihon Daishinsai Charity Fushidansekkyo Fukyo Taikai" [Shinran Shonin 750th Anniversary commemorative and Eastern Japan Great Earthquake Disaster charitable Fushidansekkyo missionary assembly] will be held at the Hongwanji-ha Tsumura Betsuin in Osaka.

This Fushidansekkyo Fukyo Taikai is open to anyone and admission is free. But the note on the publicity circular received today states that "Numbered tickets will be issued on a first-come and first-served basis, and the ticket issuance will be ceased when the prescribed number of applicants is reached." (Because of Tsumura Betsuin's occupancy load limit.) So, your numbered (reservation) ticket is required. Please hurry to apply.

Please contact Jikko Iinkai [the executive committee] or Fushidansekkyo Kenkyu Kai Office for inquiries and applications.
E-mail addresses and FAX numbers of Executive Committee and Fushidansekkyo Kenkyu Kai Office

May 23, 2011 Hitomi

The "Shonen-ki Fushidansekkyo Taikai"
as "Shinran Shonin 750-kai-Ki O-machiuke Taikai"
at Yurin-ji in Nagoya on the 29th of May

The above is the content of the circular document "Shonen-ki Dai 3-kai Fushidansekkyo Taikai: Shinran Shonin 750-kai-Ki O-machiuke Taikai" [the third Shonen Sobue Commemorative Fushidansekkyo Meeting: gathering in await for the 750th anniversary of Shinran Shonin's passing] that I received from Rev. Yoshino Sobue, a granddaughter of the late Reverend Shonen Sobue, on May 6th, 2011. The reverends of Jodo Shinshu (Shin Buddhism) will come to deliver sermons (all-day preaching) on the occasion of this "Shonen-ki Fushidansekkyo Taikai" at the Yurin-ji in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture on Sunday, May 29th, 2011. The Service will commence at 9:00 am. (May 6, 2011 Hitomi)

Note (as to the titles of the sermons):
1. "Yome Shutome no Tera-mairi" [a (young) wife and her mother-in-law visiting a temple] by Rev. Ichido Iwasaki (Higashi Honganji-ha Anraku-ji) from Omiya, Saitama Prefecture.
2. "Igyo-do to Tamahi-densetsu" [Easy Path and the legend of Princess Tamahi] by Rev. Chikyo Nishida (Hongwanji-ha Fukuei-ji) from Ono, Hyogo Prefecture.
(Legend has it that Kujo Kanezane's daughter, Princess Tamahi, wedded Shinran Shonin.)
3. "Go-tsubu no Keshitsubu: Hannya to Hoben" [Five papaverous grains (seeds): Transcendental Wisdom (prajna) and Expedient Means] by Rev. Kyohan Yoshimine (Jodo Shinshu Gankyo-ji) from Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture.
4. "Nembutsu Choji no Dan" [the episode of the Nembutsu practice being prohibited] by Rev. Yoshino Sobue (Otani-ha Yurin-ji).
5. "Taue-uta no Dan" [the episode of a rice planters' song] by Rev. Keiten Hanafusa (Hongwanji-ha Juko-ji) from Osaka City, Osaka.
6. "Yamabushi Bennen no Dan" [the episode of Mountain priest Bennen] by Rev. Gihaku Fugoshi (Higashi Honganji-ha Honjo-ji) from Hachioji, Tokyo.
7. "Shinjin Shoin: Shonin Go-ojo no Dan" ["Shinjin is the true cause (for Birth in the Pure Land)": the episode of Shinran Shonin going to the Pure Land (his Birth in the Pure Land)] by Rev. Hojo Matsushima (Hongwanji-ha Senpuku-ji) from Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture.

Yurin-ji (Yurin Temple)
Address: 4-5 Tsujimachi, Kita-ku, Nagoya-shi 462-0032 Japan
The nearest subway station is Kamiiida Station on Subway Kamiiida Line. If you take the municipal subway from Nagoya to Kamiiida [with changing lines several times], the routes are: (1) Nagoya → about a 5-minute ride on Subway Higashiyama Line → Sakae Station on Subway Higashiyama Line → about a 10-minute ride on Subway Meijo Line → Heiandori Station on Subway Meijo Line → about a 2-minute ride on Subway Kamiiida Line → Kamiiida Station on Subway Kamiiida Line [with changing lines 3 times], (2) Nagoya → about a 4-minute ride on Subway Sakuradori Line → Hisaya-odori Station on Subway Sakuradori Line → about a 8-minute ride on Subway Meijo Line → Heiandori Station on Subway Meijo Line → about a 2-minute ride on Subway Kamiiida Line → Kamiiida Station on Subway Kamiiida Line [with changing lines 3 times], etc.

Legendary Fushidansekkyo Sermons by Rev. Bunyu Norikiyo

"Norikiyo Bunyu Sekkyo Shu" CD

A CD six-disc set of "Norikiyo Bunyu Sekkyo Shu" exposited by Rev. Futai Naobayashi and organized by Rev. Gihaku Fugoshi has been published from Kokushokankokai, which includes the "sound source hitherto considered as unfindable." ⁽¹⁾

The Reverend Bunyu Norikiyo (1913-1965), called a "modern-day Rennyo" ("Ima Rennyo"), was a master of Fushidansekkyo in the Showa Period. He was also referred to as a "hall breaker" reverend (Mi-do kowashi no Go-bo-sama), for the floor of the main hall of the temple would often give way under the weight of the packed congregation that came to hear him.

An old black and white photograph included in the leaflet shows us that congregants who could not find any unoccupied seats in the "nave" stood listening to the sermon in the "chancel" behind the "preaching pedestal" that Rev. Norikiyo was on, also in the "transept."

April 9, 2011 Hitomi

The 2010 Geino Gakkai Academic Meeting
from the 13th to 14th November 2010

in Hakui and Kanazawa

The 2010 Academic Meeting of Geino Gakkai will be held in Hakui City and Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture from the 13th to 14th November 2010, extending a unique opportunity to us to visit a place noted (remembered) in connection with Dr. Shinobu Orikuchi (d. 1953), the founder of Geino Gakkai, and to participate in a meeting for the presentation of research papers during the two-day period.

The First Day: Saturday the 13th November 2010
1. Visiting a monument inscribed with a poem by Shinobu Orikuchi and paying our respects at the father and son pair's gravesite ⁽¹⁾ in Hakui (Assembling at Hakui Station at 14:15)
-- Leaving Hakui for Kanazawa --
2. Presentation and Lecture at Shiinoki Geihinkan in Kanazawa (Start accepting at 16:30)

Presentation of research papers 17:00 - 18:30
- "Orikuchi Shinobu no Gikyoku 'Shushin Kaneiri Engi' Ko" ⁽²⁾ by Haruo Misumi (Honorary Researcher at Independent Administrative Institution National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo)
- "Pekin no Shunki to Geino no Tenkai" ⁽³⁾ by Shuhei Kikkawa (Professor Emeritus at Kyoto City University of Arts)
- "Orikuchi Shinobu Oyako to Ioto-sen" ⁽⁴⁾ by Masahiro Nishitsunoi (Lecturer at Nihon University Graduate School of Art)
Lecture 18:40 - 19:40
- "Orikuchi Shinobu no Kodai heno Tabi" ⁽⁵⁾ by Hideo Haga (Honorary Researcher of Japan Professional Photographers Society)

3. Social gathering 20:00 - 22:00

The Second Day: Sunday the 14th November 2010
Morning free [at your discretion]
4. Lecture at the Hougaku Hall of Ishikawa Ongakudo (Ishikawa Prefectural Ongakudo) in Kanazawa (Assembling at 12:50)

Lecture 13:00 - 14:30
- "Hougaku Hall no Miryoku to Geino" ⁽⁶⁾ by Makoto Kodama (Producer of the Ishikawa Ongakudo Hougaku Hall)

(honorific titles omitted)

This Geino Gakkai Academic Meeting offers us, indeed, the unique opportunity of visiting Hakui remembered in connection with Dr. Shinobu Orikuchi and of participating in the meeting in Kanazawa. This time, however, attendance and participation in this two-day meeting from among non-Society members are, I'm afraid, confined exclusively to those who are accompanied by Society members.

October 14, 2010 Hitomi

Note (Citing passages from the résumé that I received yesterday and translating them into English):
(2) [Shinobu Orikuchi's play: An interpretation of "Shushin Kaneiri Engi"]
Dr. Orikuchi's plays are very few in number. His play "Shushin Kaneiri Engi" was published in showa 21 (1946) and has still never been produced. This play depicts the story of Tamagusuku Chokun's resolve to create Kumiodori on his return voyage to Rukyu (Okinawa) and gives a particular account of how the series of events leading up to the moment at which Chokun was resolved, gazing at young Wakamatsu cast himself into the sea. "An outpouring of drama is created through having Orikuchi's contemplation of the history and culture of Okinawa, his fervent sentiments toward Kumiodori, which is to be the quintessence of its culture, and, in addition, his Kaijotakai-kan [his view of "the other world being out at sea"], and associatedly his requiescat for his heir, Harumi, who has evanished into the sea, woven together." Dr. Haruo Misumi will be examining those elements.
• Kumiodori is a music drama (song and dance drama), which had been handed down the generations mainly in the court of the Ryukyu Kingdom from the 18th century. The first recognized performance of Kumiodori was in 1719, when "Shushin Kaneiri" and "Nido Tekiuchi" created by Tamagusuku Chokun were put on for the first time on the occasion of the kingdom's banquet for the Chinese emissary called Satsupo-shi (Sappo-shi).
(3) [Spring in Beijing and the development of Geino]
Prof. Shuhei Kikkawa visited China from February 13th, 2010 (New Year's Eve according to the old [lunar] calendar) for 18 days. "Having savored firecrackers, fireworks, and Geino in Beijing, I reviewed the characteristics of the lunar New Year, the season for celebrating with Geino, most of which have been lost in Japan."
(4) [The grave of the father and son pair of Shinobu and Harumi Orikuchi and the Battle of Iwo Jima]
Prof. Masahiro Nishitsunoi urges us, "You are strongly encouraged to read a long poem entitled 'Kizutsuke zu are' with which Kindai Hisho Shu ends. Shinobu Orikuchi's thoughts, and his paternal love and feeling of utter mortification seep through into us."
• Iwo Jima became a fierce battlefield between Japan and the United States during World War II. Harumi Orikuchi was among those who had fallen in the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Note: (5) [Orikuchi Shinobu's journey into ancient times]
Orikuchi Shinobu to Kodai wo Tabiyuku by Hideo Haga, published by Keio University Press (Keio Gijuku Daigaku Shuppan Kai, the first impression of the first edition, November 20, 2009), is considered the definitive photo and commentary book on Orikuchi-gaku [Orikuchi-Studies], in which well-selected 300-odd photographs capturing "the origin of the minds of the Japanese people" from the vast numbers of photographs taken by him for over 70 years are included. In his preface (Ibid., Hajimeni in Jo, n.pag.), Mr. Haga notes the term "Kodai" as follows: (quote/tr.) "Shinobu Orikuchi devoted his whole life to finding 'Kodai.' Orikuchi's 'Kodai' is not the historical-chronological Kodai [ancient times, antiquity]. It is the super-historical spirit in which were passed on to the following generation and even to the present day the faiths and lives of the people within A Collection of a Myriad Leaves who had lived in pre-Nara times." (end quote/tr.)
Mr. Hideo Haga has received numerous awards, including the Medal with Purple Ribbon (1989) and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette (1995) from the Japanese government.
Note: (6) [The charm of Japanese traditional music hall and Geino]
Ishikawa Ongakudo (Ishikawa Prefectural Ongakudo) Web site's English page "ISHIKAWA ONGAKUDO | Floor Guide | Hougaku Hall" [English]
URL: http://www.ongakudo.pref.ishikawa.jp/english/hougaku/index.html

The propagation of Shin Buddhism:
"Shuso Sango Fukyo Taikai"

October 4, 2010

On Monday the 4th of October, 2010, the "Shuso Sango Fukyo Taikai" meeting will be held in the form of Koza Sekkyo [preaching from the Koza pulpit] that is a distinctively Shin Buddhist tradition (legacy), having possessed the power to "enthrall people with various tunes of 'Fushi' and rich 'Katari' [telling, speaking]" and to "beckon people onward into Ryoge [embracing and understanding (the teaching)] of the Other-Power," at the Juko-ji in Osaka.

The "Shuso Sango Fukyo Taikai" meeting

Date and time: October 4th, 2010 12:30 - 17:30.
Place: Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha Juko-ji.
- 2-9-29 Tamade-higashi, Nishinari-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 557-0043 Japan.
- In front of Tsukanishi Station on Hankai Densha (Hankai Tramway) Hankai Line.
Go-santan
- Nobuhisa Seki, Chikyo Nishida, Ryusho Tsujimoto, Keiten Hanafusa, Mitsuaki Sugimoto, and Kosho Sasaki.
Guests
- Futai Naobayashi (Fushidansekkyo Kenkyu Kai) and Myoyu Eguchi (Biwa lute Hodan).

(honorific titles omitted)

This meeting is open to anyone free of charge. They say that it is OK to come late or to leave early on the day. "The preaching will go on as if in a relay. So, anytime at your convenience is fine. Please come and listen to the sermon when time allows."

August 21, 2010 Hitomi

The holding of a special event:
"Shotoku Taishi Go-eden O-etoki"

September 2, 2010

On Thursday the 2nd of September, 2010, the "Shotoku Taishi Go-eden O-etoki" recitation will be given by Rev. Keijun Hasegawa, who is the keeper of the tradition of the Etoki on the Life of Prince Shotoku, at the Joso-ji in Otsu.

The special presentation "Shotoku Taishi Go-eden O-etoki"

1. Date: September 2nd, 2010.
2. Place: Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha Joso-ji.
- 4-9 Miyukicho, Otsu-shi, Shiga 520-0057 Japan.
- About 5 minutes walk from the north exit of JR Otsu Station.
3. Etoki Recitation: Rev. Keijun Hasegawa (the Chief Priest of Shonen-ji, Toyama Prefecture).
4. Admission: free.
5. The fourth consecutive Etoki recitation.
- — Religious service 10:00 —
- The first 10:15 (A ten-minute recess) The second 11:15
- — A lunch break —
- The third 13:30 (A ten-minute recess) The fourth 14:30

Organizer: Hojodo Shuppan

Please contact Hojodo Shuppan for inquiries and applications for this special Etoki event.
Hojodo Shuppan Web site Top Page "With the aim of reevaluating and re-creating Japanese publication culture: Hojodo Shuppan Inc." [Japanese]
URL: http://www.hojodo.com/

August 21, 2010 Hitomi

The 2010 Geino Gakkai Geino Seminar
Under the theme of "Ryukyu Buto"

June 19, 2010

On Saturday the 19th of June, 2010, the annual Geino Seminar will be held by Geino Gakkai [The founder: Dr. Shinobu Orikuchi (d. 1953)] at the "Hisui no Ma" Hall on the third floor of Kudan Kaikan in Tokyo. The theme of this year's Geino Seminar of Geino Gakkai is "Ryukyu Buto" [Dance of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (Okinawa islands' traditional dance)] and is to look toward the future of Ryukyu Buto.

The 2010 Geino Gakkai General Assembly 13:00 - 13:30 (Members of Geino Gakkai only)
The 2010 Geino Seminar 14:00

1. "Okinawa Geino to Bunkazai Gyosei" [Okinawa islands' performing arts and the cultural property administration]
- Junko Yoshida
2. "Ryukyu Buto 'Kata' no Densho" [the handing down of the 'form' of Ryukyu Dance]
- —Eizo Kiroku ni saguru— [exploring it through Ryukyu Buto's archive films]
- Haruo Misumi
3. Symposium "Ryukyu Buto no Shorai" [the future of Ryukyu Dance]
- Panel members: Kiyoko Kawaguchi, Reiko Kawada, Fusako Shida, and Masahiro Nishitsunoi. (in the order of the Japanese syllabary)
- Moderator: Hideki Tanaka

The 2010 Geino Seminar Closing Session 16:15 (estimated time)

Auditing (Listening in) this Geino Seminar of Geino Gakka is free. Attendance and participation from among non-Society members who cherish Geino are welcomed.

June 1, 2010 Hitomi

Kudan Kaikan
Address: 1-6-5 Kudan Minami, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0074 Japan
About 1 minute walk from the number 4 exit of Kudanshita Station on Tokyo Metoro (Tokyo Subway) Tozai Line and Hanzomon Line.
Kudan Kaikan Web site's Japanese transportation guide and access map page "Kudan Kaikan - Kotsu no Goannai" [Japanese]
URL: http://www.kudankaikan.or.jp/access/index.html
A postscript: As of 5 pm, July 20, 2011 in JST, the above-mentioned URL does not work, receiving an Alert "Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /access/index.html on this server."
Tokyo Metoro Web site's English Home page "Tokyo Metro Home" [English]
URL: http://www.tokyometro.jp/en/index.html
Tokyo Metoro Web site's English service information page "Tokyo Metoro | Subway Map" [English] -- You can download "Subway Map [English]" (PDF) from this page. Also, Tokyo Metro Subway Route Maps (PDF files) as "Multi-language Version of Subway Map" are available for download in various languages, including Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Korean, and Russian.
URL: http://www.tokyometro.jp/en/subwaymap/index.html

The "Shinran-shonin 750th Honen-shonin 800th
Goonki Omachiuke Hoyo" service by Space Saranam

The 26th of June, 2010

The "Shinran Shonin 750th Honen Shonin 800th Goonki Omachiuke Hoyo" service [service in await for the 750th anniversary of Shinran Shonin's passing and the 800th anniversary of Honen Shonin's passing]" by Space Saranam will be held at Hondo [the main temple building] of Higashi Betsuin in Nagoya, with a dedicatory Noh performance by Ms. Ryoko Aoki and under the comprehensive guidance and supervision of Associate Professor Ken Ito at Tokyo University as the Artistic Director.

Please contact Rev. Takakazu Hazyka's Joshin-ji for inquiries. Rev. Takakazu Hazyka's Joshin-ji Web site Top Page "Joshin-ji Home Page (Nakamura-ku, Nagoya City)." [Japanese]
URL: http://www.jiin.or.jp/

June 1, 2010 Hitomi

Ohigashi Net (Ohigashi Net | Shinshu Otani-ha (Higashi Honganji) Nagoya Higashi Betsuin) Web site's Map of the facilities (buildings) inside the precincts "Nagoya Higashi Betsuin Keidaizu" [Japanese] (

The page that the link represents includes a dynamic image map of the precincts of Nagoya Higashi Betsuin.)
URL: http://www.ohigashi.net/syoukai_keidaizu.html
By clicking on each linked number on the above-mentioned map, you will jump to the place where each description of the facilities inside the precincts starts. For example, on the map, the number assigned to the Hondo (the site for the "Goonki Omachiuke Hoyo" service by Space Saranam on June 26) is 1.

The second "Shonen-ki Fushidansekkyo Taikai"
at Yurin-ji in Nagoya on the 30th of May

The above is the content of the circular document "Dai 2-kai Shonen-ki Fushidansekkyo Taikai [the second Shonen Sobue Commemorative Fushidansekkyo Meeting]" that I received from Rev. Yoshino Sobue, a granddaughter of the late Reverend Shonen Sobue, on April 19th, 2010. The reverends of Higashi Honganji-ha, of Hongwanji-ha, and of Otani-ha will come to deliver sermons (all-day preaching) on the occasion of the Service of the second "Shonen Sobue Commemorative Fushidansekkyo Meeting" at the Yurin-ji in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture on Sunday, May 30th, 2010. The Service will commence at 9:30 am. (April 20, 2010 Hitomi)

Note (as to the titles of the sermons):
1. "Goon Hosha [Responding in gratitude to Amida Tathagata's benevolence]" by Rev. Yushin Hasebe (Unjo-ji) from Oono, Fukui Prefecture.
2. "Kumagai no Rensei-bo Azuma-kudari [Kumagai Rensei-bo going down to the eastern provinces]" by Rev. Tamon Sugio (Chomei-ji) from Tagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyushu Island.
3. "Jogen no Honan -- Ossho-sama tono Wakare [The religious persecution in the first year of jogen (1207): Parting from Master (Honen)]" by Rev. Yoshino Sobue (Yurin-ji).
4. "Hongan ni kisu [Taking refuge in the Primal Vow]" by Rev. Chikyo Nishida (Fukuei-ji) from Ono, Hyogo Prefecture.
5. "Chichi no Hango [Father's messtin]" by Rev. Gihaku Fugoshi (Honjo-ji, Executive Director of Fushidansekkyo Kenkyu Kai) from Hachioji, Tokyo.
6. "Zenbun Tariki -- Daigon-shi to Shinsui-osho [Reliance upon the salvific perfection of the power originating entirely from Amida's Primal Vow: The Reverend Daigon and the Buddhist Master Shinsui]" by Rev. Hojo Matsushima (Senpuku-ji) from Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture.

"Kumagai no Rensei-bo" -- Kumagai no Naozane (1141-1208), who had been a Gokenin class warrior (an immediate vassal of the Shogun) in the early Kamakura period, became Honen's disciple in 1192.
"Azuma" -- Togoku, Eastern provinces.
"Jogen no Honan" -- The Imperial order that laid the ban on practicing the Exclusive Nembutsu was issued in 1207. Honen and several disciples of his Pure Land school were punished either by death or with banishment. The Order for Honen's exile to Tosa was issued. Shinran was banished to Echigo.
If you are interested in Japanese Buddhism related events in the Kamakura period, please see a chronology in English on the "An Abbreviated Chronological Table of Kamakura Period" page, which also includes simplified border maps of the old provinces of Japan, if you wonder about the designation "Eastern provinces (Togoku)" in the Kamakura period or would like to locate Tosa and Echigo on the maps.
"Daigon" -- Hongwanj-ha. Kyosen-ji in Nagato (today's Yamaguchi Prefecture). Daigon (1791-1856), bynamed Sogu, was an erudite, scholarly Buddhist priest, being well versed in Confucianism (noted for his lectures on the I Ching at a feudal school of the fief of Hagi named Meirin-kan) and was also proficient in poetry.
Daigon advanced an "active practice (No-gyo

)" perspective in the theory of Practice-Faith (Gyo-Shin Ron), which offered something more masterful than that of Sekisen (1762-1826).⁽¹⁾
["Active practice (No-gyo)" in terms of human recitation, or reciting the Name, which is (in some instances, controversially) intertwined with "Passive practice (Sho-gyo

)" in terms of the Name.]
"Shinsui" -- Hongwanj-ha. Kosho-ji in Higo (today's Kumamoto Prefecture). Shinsui (1808-1893), surnamed Haraguchi, was a leading Buddhist scholar priest in the study of denominational doctrines, having extensive knowledge of religions (including Christianity), with a prodigious memory. Shinsui attained the academic ranking of Kangaku in the order of the Hongwanji denomination.
Mokurai Shimaji (1838-1911) was under the tuition of Shinsui.⁽²⁾
(1) The 1977 facsimile edition of Tetsuo Inoue ed., Shin Shu Somei Jiten [Biographical Dictionary of Shin Shu Priests] (Ryukoku University Shuppanbu, 1926).
(2) Ibid.

To those who have studied in the laboratory of Study of Religion at Taisho University

The above is the content of the invitation document "Washimi Joshin Sensei wo Shiobu Kai Annai" that I received from Professor Tatsuya Yumiyama (the Department of Human Science of the Faculty of Human Studies, Taisho University) on April 9th, 2010.
A Buddhist service and a gathering to talk and reminisce about the late Rev. Prof. Joshin Washimi will be held at the Taisho University on the evening of May 12th, 2010. If you are among those who did postgraduate studies in Study of Religion in (the academic years of) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997, please notify the laboratory of Study of Religion (Shukyogaku Kenkyushitsu) at the Taisho University by April 30th, 2010 and indicate the following: (1) Whether you will attend the Buddhist Service. (2) Whether you will attend the gathering after the Service.

The founding of the Nihon Dento Bunka Coordinator Yosei School
presided over by Nihon Dento Geijutsu Kokusai Koryu Kai (JAA)

To become a "Culture Sommelier"

As a Sommelier is to wine, so is a Nihon Dento Bunka Coordinator to Japanese traditional culture. A training institution for Nihon Dento Bunka Coordinators will open in Tokyo this spring, under the presidency of Nihon Dento Geijutsu Kokusai Koryu Kai (JAA, Japan Performing Arts Association). According to the institution's prospectus that I received today, the program offers advanced courses with an emphasis on practical training and fieldwork, in which students will develop their expertise and qualifications in a dynamic, small-group teaching environment with expert lecturers who have sustained Japanese culture. Only if a student has passed the certification examination after completion of a course can he or she be registered as a Nihon Dento Bunka Coordinator Jokyu Shikaku Nintei Sha [a person who is certified as a Senior Japanese Traditional Culture Coordinator with an Advanced Certification] by JAA.

The introduction to Japanese traditional culture is to be delivered by Dr. Haruo Misumi (Litt.D., President of Geino Gakkai).
Classes on specific subjects are to be conducted by leading experts in their fields, including the following subjects:

The tilt of the Japanese mind (the mental propensity of the Japanese) -- That which they looked upon as happiness or unhappiness, their view of life and death, and their interpretation of the world.
The aesthetic sense (aesthetic values) of the Japanese -- The feeling (Jocho), the grace (Miyabi), the pathos of things (Mono no Aware), the subtle and profound (Yugen), the austere, tranquil, subtle taste (Wabi), the subdued refinement or austere elegance (Sabi), the foppery or dandyism (Basara), and the sophistication (Iki).
Japanese literary art -- The oral literary arts (storytellings) and the literature as reading matter, and Waka and Haiku.
The form and design of the Japanese -- The fine arts, the crafts, and the buildings and structures.
Japanese invocation -- Kami and Buddha (Hotoke), Matsuri, Buddhist services, Confraternity (Ko), and the year's regular events.
Play (play activity) of the Japanese -- Children's play, Play, and general artistic interests such as the incense ceremony, the art of flower arrangement, the tea ceremony, and the calligraphy.
Japanese physical culture and competitive athletics -- The martial arts, Sumo, the Tug of War games, and the rowing races.

March 20, 2010 Hitomi

"A Locus of Encounter: An essay on Soetsu Yanagi"

Muneyoshi Yanagi ⁽¹⁾ as a Thinker

I thank to Mr. Shuichi Ochi for an issue of RINRI Kenkyujo Kiyo [the Proceedings of RINRI Institute of Ethics] (Proceedings Number 17) and issues of RINRI (Journal Sequential Number 675, 676, and 677) that include his essays.
An essay by Shuichi Ochi, "Aru Deai no Kiseki: Yanagi Muneyoshi Shoron" [A Locus of Encounter: An essay on Soetsu Yanagi], which offers an approach focusing on Soetsu Yanagi as a thinker, is published in RINRI Kenkyujo Kiyo, 17. Having read it, I find myself stirred. Although there lies outside the subject of this essay a specialized field of study to which Mr. Ochi has devoted himself, yet I hope that he would continue and expand his "Muneyoshi Yanagi as a Thinker" discussion.

February 1, 2010 Hitomi

Note:
(1) The name of Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961) is also read as Muneyoshi Yanagi, which is often mentioned in connection with "Folk crafts" that means "People's art" (Mingei).
I quote from the third paragraph of Soetsu Yanagi's "The Collection of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum" presented in English in the EXPO '70 illustrated catalogue of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum (Nippon Mingeikan).

(quote) Folk crafts were the work of anonymous craftsmen, produced in quantities to be used by the masses in their daily lives. Utility was the main characteristic of these crafts; therefore they were made functionally and practically in order to endure the rough handling of everyday use. Since the craftsman had to produce them at low cost and in quantity, they were obliged to work hard in repeating the same type of process over and over again. This repetitious exercise made the craftsmen skillful in technique, compared with individual artists who work on single objects of art one at a time. Futhermore [sic], the craftsmen did not attempt to create the products with their free imagination: instead, they followed faithfully and blindly the traditional way of making which was the crystallized golden rule set up by their ancestors' experiences and wisdom acquired over generations. Each pattern, each design, and each glaze was not a new experimentation, but the result of tradition. The beauty of folk crafts is not attributed to the talent of any genius. It is not the outcome of intellect or of individual expression. The beauty of these unknown craftsmen's works is attributed to the 'other-power' (Tariki), that is to say, a simple belief in tradition. With practically no exceptions, folk crafts are beautiful: it is very difficult to find any bad, impure, or degenerate works among them. (end quote)

Soetsu Yanagi, "The Collection of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum," Japan Folk Crafts Museum (Nippon Mingeikan): Exhibition of Folk-Craft from the Collection of The Nippon Mingeikan (Nippon Mingeikan, EXPO '70 3.15-9.13, 1970), no pagination.

The Geino Gakkai Academic Meeting of 2009
on the 30th of January, 2010

at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space

The Geino Gakkai Academic Meeting of 2009 for Reading Research Papers will be held at the Large Conference Room (Dai-kaigishitsu) on the 5th floor of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space (Tokyo Geijutsu Gekijo) on Saturday the 30th of January, 2010.

Part I: Presentation of Research Papers 13:00 - 14:50

"Iwashimizu-Hachiman-guji no Hatsu-u no Mi-kagura ni kansuru Ichi Kosatsu" ⁽¹⁾ by Masato Nakamoto
"Narazuhiko-jinja Okina-mai to sono Densho ni kansuru Ichi Kosatsu" ⁽²⁾ by Hiroyo Naito
"Ashiwara Hisako ga egaita Musume Gidayu ni tsuite" ⁽³⁾ by Yuko Mizuno

-- A ten-minute recess --
Part II: Dialogue and Performing Arts Appreciation 15:00 - 16:30

Utsushi-e ---Edo no Animation ⁽⁴⁾
- Dialogue -- Speaker: Fumio Yamagata (Director of the Minwa-za Company)
- Dialogue -- Listener: Shin Kodama
- Utsushi-e Performance -- Explanation and magic lantern operation: Yuko Tanaka

Closing Session 16:35

(honorific prefixes omitted)

December 5, 2009 Hitomi

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space (Tokyo Geijutsu Gekijo) Address: 1-8-1 Nishi Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 171-0021, Japan
About 2 minutes walk, when leaving JR Ikebukuro Station by the West Exit.
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space Web site's English guide map page "Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space Access map" [English]
URL: http://www.geigeki.jp/english/access.html
The above guide map page will give you walking directions from different ticket gates of Ikebukuro Station, depending on the line (which line you take, the JR Line, the Seibu Ikebukuro Line, the Tobu Tojo Line, or the Tokyo Metro subway lines, including Marunouchi Line, Fukutoshin Line and Yurakucho Line, to Ikebukuro).

Note (according to the résumé that I received yesterday):
(1) On a performance of sacred dance and music called Mi-kagura on the day of the Hatsu-u [First Rabbit; the day that falls on the first day of the Rabbit in a 12-day cycle employing the 12-animal zodiac signs] that was one of the most important rituals which had been held semi-annually (in luni-solar February and in luni-solar November of each year) and sponsored by Iwashimizu-Hachiman-guji, centering on fundamental considerations regarding its characteristics and circumstances in the period from the formation of Hatsu-u no Mi-kagura to the early Middle Ages, while referring to an association with Kagura-fu (Kagura manuscript] transcribed in the Heian period.
Iwashimizu-Hachiman-gu [gu: shrine] was originally established as a particular religious institution which had been neither a Shinto shrine nor a Buddhist temple in Kami-Buddha fusion (or Shinto-Buddhism fusion), and had been referred to as Iwashimizu-Hachiman-guji [guji: shrine-temple] until the movement to abolish Buddhism (Haibutsu Kishaku) that was triggered by the promulgation of the so-called "Edict for Separation of Shinto and Buddhism" in 1868.
(2) On what a traditional, loral world signifies in conjunction with the foundation and background for it, focusing on the history and traditions, the content of which manifests itself intriguingly as a theory of the origins of Geino [Performing arts], with taking a specific case of Okina-mai performed at the Narazuhiko shrine [marked by its rendition of Okina-mai, the protagonist Okina being accompanied by two Okinas as deuteragonists] in Narazaka Town and with deciphering Narazaka Kyu Ki.
(3) On an "evidence to the contrary" as to previously accepted assertions about the title of a portrait of a female performer by the Japanese-style painter Hisako Kajiwara (1896-1988), which was discovered in the autumn of 2009 by the presenter (Yuko Mizuno), and the identified subject of the painting and date of work.

Note (according to the dialogue overview that I received yesterday):
(4) It was in 1803, it is said, that the Edo rakugo storyteller Sansho-tei Toraku (also known as Ikeda Toraku) who thought about how he could get projected still images moving and performing a play, and he, with improving on the fixedness of the metal made, heavy magic lantern which had been imported by early European traders, contrived a paulownia wood made, lightweight magic lantern called "Furo" that could be held against the chest and carried about. This was the first step of "Utsushi-e" toward making the Edo public wonder. "Figures of illustrated storybooks move and perform!"
"It would be fair to say that the Utsushi-e, which gave a performance of projected images complete with dramatic narratives and popular old-style Japanese songs from Sekkyobushi and Gidayu, was the Animation of the Edo Era prior to the Motion Pictures that the Lumiére brothers of France invented in the 18th year of the Meiji Era (1895)."

The International Minzoku Geino Festival of 2009
on the 9h of February, 2010

at the New National Theatre, Tokyo

The International Folk Performing Arts Festival (Kokusai Minzoku Geino Festival) of 2009 sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan will be held at the Playhouse (Chu-gekijo) of New National Theatre, Tokyo (Shin Kokuritsu Gekijo) in February, 2010, giving an Evening Performance on February 9th at 18:30 and a Matinee Performance on February 10th at 12:00 noon.

Program

Traditional Estonian Song and Dance of Kihnu Island by the folklore performance group Kihnumua from the Republic of Estonia
Traditional Laotian music Mawlum (Morlam) of Isan [Northeast] Thailand by the Phum Phanya (Phumphanya?) Thai tradition group from the Kingdom of Thailand
Akiu no Taue-odori [Rice-planting Dance] by Baba no Taue-odori preservation group from Sendai
Tawara no Saimon [Paean] by Nara-shi Tawara-chiku Dento Geino preservation group from Nara
Takabe no Shishi-mai [Lion Dance] by Takabe Shishi-mai preservation group from Imabari

Seeing this festival is free (No admission fee is required). But you need to apply, specifically, with a Japanese reply-paid postcard that must be completed with all the necessary information ^(A) and postmarked not later than January 15, 2010. Additionally, when there are a large number of applications, you need to win a "numbered ticket for admission" by lottery.
For an application and an inquiry, please contact Japan Folk Performing Arts Association that is commissioned by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan to produce the annual International Folk Performing Arts Festival.

Japan Folk Performing Arts Association (JFPAA)
Address: 6-7-14-102, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052, Japan.
JFPAA Web site's English Top Page "Japan Folk Performing Arts Association" [English]
URL: http://www.jfpaa.jp/top/top_e.html

December 5, 2009 Hitomi

"Let's listen to Fushidansekkyo" poster
produced by Kyoto-kyoku Bukkyo Seinen Kai
[Kyoto-parochial Young Buddhist Association]

A gathering for hearing Fushidansekkyo sermons in Otsu

November 23, 2009

At the Joso-ji of Rev. Futai Naobayashi, Vice-president of Fushidansekkyo Kenkyu Kai, "Fushidansekkyo wo Kiku Kai" [a gathering for hearing Fushidansekkyo sermons] will be held. Rev. Kenjun Hirooka, the greatest keeper of the flame of Noto-bushi Fushidansekkyo of our day, will come to deliver a sermon from Noto Peninsula.

Date and Start Time: Japanese national holiday, November 23, 2009 19:00
Preacher: Rev. Kenjun Hirooka (Otani ha Mankaku-ji, Resident Priest, Ishikawa prf.)
Omaeza [an opening sermon] Preacher: Rev. Mitsuaki Sugimoto (Hongwanji ha Kotaku-ji, Resident Priest, Hyogo prf.)

For inquiries, please contact the Office of Fushidansekkyo Kenkyu Kai (Honjo-ji Kaikyoin 798-1 Nagafusamachi, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 193-0824 Japan).

October 21, 2009 Hitomi

For those who would like to hear Rev. Yoshino Sobue

Rev. Yoshino's Schedule

The following is Rev. Yoshino's preaching schedule that she told me yesterday (August 21).

September 14, 2009, from 14:00, at Tenma Betsuin in Osaka.
October 30, 2009 at Shosei-ji in Noto Peninsula.
November 7 and 8, 2009 at Saiko-ji in Toyama.
November 10, 2009, from 11:00, at Owari Asahi Saijo in Nagoya.
December 2, 2009 at Kyoto Kyomusho in Kyoto.
December 6, 2009 at Ryakumyo-ji in Tsushima.
February 21, 2010 at Yurin-ji in Nagoya -- Yurin-ji Hoonko.

Also, the second "Shonen-ki Fushidansekkyo Taikai" [the Reverend Shonen Sobue Commemorative Fushidansekkyo Meeting] will be held at Yurin-ji in Nagoya on May 30th, 2010.

August 22, 2009 Hitomi

Kyoto Kyomusho
Address: Karasuma Nishi iru, Hanayacho-dori, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8164 Japan
Shin Shu Otani-ha (Higashi Honganji) TOMO-NET Web site's page providing information on Otani-ha Kyomusho around Japan "Zenkoku Kyoku Ichiran • Kyomusho Shozaichi" [Japanese]
URL: http://www.tomo-net.or.jp/link/kyoku.html
A postscript: As of 5 pm, July 20, 2011 in JST, the above-mentioned URL does not work, receiving an Alert "Not Found: The requested URL /link/kyoku.html was not found on this server."

The Tobo-ryu Fushidansekkyo Demonstrative Presentation

The 2nd of September, 2009

The second " Tobo-ryu Fushidansekkyo Jitsuen Kai" [Tobo School Fushidansekkyo Demonstrative Presentation] by the members of Sensho Kai will be given at Kameyama Gobo Hontoku-ji, the "Hongwanji in Banshu," from 13:30 (doors open at 13:00) on Wednesday, September 2, 2009.

The preachers who will deliver sermons are:

Rev. Reiko Ashikaga (Enryu-ji in Osu City, Ehime)
Rev. Shiro Ikemoto (Hossho-ji in Himeji City, Hyogo)
Rev. Kiyoko Saimu (Kinsho-ji in Kakogawa City, Hyogo)
Rev. Ryusho Tsujimoto (Goen-ji in Izumiotsu City, Osaka)

Please contact Rev. Shiro Ikemoto's Hossho-ji (31 Kameyama, Shikama-ku, Himeji-shi, Hyogo 672-8047 Japan) for inquiries.

August 22, 2009 Hitomi

Come and hear Rev. Yoshino Sobue

August 9, 2009

I extract the section on Rev. Yoshino Sobue's preaching schedule from the fifth issue of "Yurin-ji Dayori" that I received today.

(quote/tr.)
• Nagoya Higashi Betsuin Regular Sermon: 7:00, 10:00, and 13:00 on Sunday, August 9, 2009 at Betsuin Taimenjo.
Yoshino delivers Fushidansekkyo sermons at the Betsuin. Anyone can come and hear the sermons.
• Autumnal Eitaikyo Service and Higan Service: 10:00 and 13:00 on Sunday, September 20, 2009 at Yurin-ji.
Dharma Talk by the Reverend Ryushin Suzuki (Tokusen-ji Chief Resident Priest), Opening Sermon by Yoshino Sobue.
Yurin-ji has an Otoki meal available.
(end quote/tr.)

All those who have not listened directly to her Fushidansekkyo, come and hear Rev. Yoshino Sobue on the 9th.

August 1, 2009 Hitomi

The page that the link represents includes a dynamic image map of the precincts of Nagoya Higashi Betsuin.)
URL: http://www.ohigashi.net/syoukai_keidaizu.html
By clicking on each linked number on the above-mentioned map, you will jump to the place where each description of the facilities inside the precincts starts. For example, on the map, the number assigned to Nagoya Betsuin Taimenjo (the site for Rev. Yoshino Sobue's Fushidansekkyo on August 9) is 16.