any cool budo events coming up in Shizuoka/Tokyo

[charlesl]

Hello all,

I'm going to be in Japan from Dec. 13th to Jan 8th, and was hoping that people might be able to reccommend and interesting budo-ish activities that might be going on during this time frame. I'm going to be in both Tokyo and Shizuoka, possibly Kyoto, but my schedule somewhat flexible, so might be able to make it to a variety of things. Of particular interest to me would be any events related to SMR jo. I'll be talking to my SMR instructor this weekend hoping he can hook me up with something, but was wondering if there might be any demonstrations or events going on. Although, maybe bad timing for this, since I've heard that most things shutdown at the end of the year.

Thanks in advance,

-Charles Lockhart

[Gil Gillespie]

The hombu dojo of Mochizuki Sensei's Yoseikan Budo is in Shizuoka. I don't know the address or #, but a world master shouldn't be hard to track down in ihis own home town. Sensei himself is in his 90's and living in France with his son, but his fine cadre of senior instructors carry on. The dojo is on the banks of the Abegawa in (I believe) the Miroku section of the city.