Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

SOME KISUIAN EVENTS

July 9, 2016
39th Annual Jin Nyodo Memorial Offering Kenso-Kai
This offering is for the great Shakuhachi Master Jin Nyodo. We will play Honkyoku in his memory at the Philadelphia Meditation Center at 12:15PM. Please call: 917-207-6724 for details, or email: nyogetsu@gmail.com

July 15–17, 2016
Honkyoku Intensive Weekend at Dai Bosatsu Zendo
Dai Bosastsu is a beautiful Rinzai-Sect Zen Monastery deep in the Catskills in upstate New York. We have been providing all of their Shakuhachi needs for the past 40 years! There will be separate Honkyoku taught for beginners and more advanced Shakuhachi players. The instructor is Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin. Please call him at 917-207-6724 to register, or email: nyogetsu@gmail.com

August 10-Sept. 1, 2016
Annual Summer USA tour of Kyoto Shakuhachi Master Kurahashi Yodo-Sensei
USA Summer Teaching Schedule
August 12 - 15: Chief Instructor at KiSuiAn Shakuhachi Camp
August 15: Philadelphia
August 18: New York City
August 26: Rochester
August 31: Back to Japan
Please contact Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin for any further information at 917-207-6724, or email: nyogetsu@gmail.com

August 12–15, 2016
KiSuiAn Shakuhachi Camp
We will have our 16th year of Shakuhachi Camp in a wonderful location that we used for the first time in 2007. It is the Temenos Retreat Center, located at 1564 Telegraph Road (Route 162) in West Chester, PA 19382.
Camp begins at 10:30 am Friday and ends the following Monday at 12:00 noon. In addition to Shakuhachi players of all levels, Koto and Shamisen players are invited as well to what will certainly be an informative and rewarding experience! There will be classes and nightly concerts as well as private lessons. More information is available through the Shakuhachi Camp link.
Instructors will be Kurahashi Yodo II Sensei, Mutsumi Takamizu, Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin, Robert Nyosei Kline, Kurt Nyoshun Findeisen, and Jamie Hogetsu Orfanella. Please call: 917-207-6724 or email: nyogetsu@gmail.com for further details.

September 23 – October 9, 2016
Annual Japan Tenri Tour
As we have been doing for the past 35 years, we will be going to Japan! Our trip will take us to Nara, Kyoto, Tenri, Tokyo, Hitachi-Shi. The trip includes a 4-Day visit to the beautiful northern island of Hokkaido, with natural wonders like hot springs, and majestic, beautiful scenery.
Hokkaido is where the best Ramen in the world is made! A day will be spent in the old capital city of Nara, where we will visit the Dai Buttsu (Great Buddha), and feed the sacred deer. We will take shakuhachi lessons with Master Kurahashi Yodo II, visit the great shakuhachi maker Sadao Chinone at his farm in Ibaraki prefecture, and go to the grand Kabuki in Tokyo. These adventures and many more!!

The full price of the 17-Day Trip is $3,700, which includes:

    Three meals per day.
    All Lodging.
    All transportation: bus, train, taxi, subway, etc. (except for exclusion (a) below).
    All admissions to temples, gardens, shrines, museums, etc.

Not included:

    R/T Airfare, and the one-week JR Pass (about $275).
    Alcohol (Optional Expense).
    Dry cleaning (Optional Expense).
    Grand Kabuki Tickets (Optional Expense - about $110).
    Shakuhachi lessons (Optional Expense).

To guarantee a spot on the Tour, you should pay 50% of the full price ($1,850), as soon as possible. If you change your mind, a full refund will be sent back until August 23, 2016.