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For those of you who might be interested:

A Seminar on Kyudo (Zen Archery)

Kyudo is the art of Zen Archery.  Although the bow lost much 
of its military importance when firearms were introduced into 
Japan in the 16th century, it was once considered the highest 
discipline of the ancient Japanese samurai.  Even before the 
16th century, Zen Buddhist monks were using the bow as a means 
of cultivating meditative awareness and as a path of 
self-realization.  The practice of Kyudo, in which age, sex 
or physical strength have little significance, is deceptively 
simple.  Working with the precision of the form, a natural 
process gradually unfolds in which the practitioner has the 
opportunity to observe his or her mind.  In kyudo, the target 
becomes a mirror which reflects the quality of ones mind at the 
moment of the arrows release.

Kinko Kyudojo is part of the Chikurin-ha branch of the Heki-ryu 
school of kyudo under the guidance of Kanjuro Shibata XX.  Shibata 
Sensei, a twentieth generation kyudo master and bow maker, has 
been teaching in the West for 15 years.  On November 5 and 6, 
1994,  Don Symanski, one of Shibatas principal students, will be 
leading a seminar on kyudo.  Mr. Symanski is the head instructor 
of the Ryuko Kyudojo in Boulder, Colorado and spent two years 
in Japan learning the art of bow making from the Shibata family.  

This class is open to all, including beginning students who have 
never held a bow to experienced students who have had several 
years of practice.


Seminar
November 5 & 6 1994
9:00am - 6:00pm
Cost:  $80 ($65 if preregistered by October 20)

Public Talk & Demonstration
November 4 1994
8:00pm
Cost : No Charge

The Place:

Kinko Kyudojo
2288 Fulton Street
Berkeley, CA 94704

For more information call 
415-681-1185  or 510-428-0705