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The Impossible, Achieved: NYB’s First “Official Trip to Japan

A short sword on display at the National Museum, Tokyo (Photo: S. Chin)

Cut pieces of bamboo after practice (Photo: S. Chin)

NYB in Japan. Top l to r: John Pozar, Watanabe san, Ichikawa san. Kneeling (l to r): Fred Bernier, Phil Ortiz, Yahagi Sensei, Kawabata Soke, Deborah Klens-Bigman, Stan Chin (Photo: F. Bernier)

L to r: John, Phil, Deborah and Fred place incense at Sengakuji (Photo: S. Chin)

John and Deborah share a table with Eijo san (Tom Dreitlein) in Koyasan (r) (Photo: S. Chin)

The gate of the Daienin, the temple ryokan in Koyasan (Photo: F. Bernier)

A sculpture of a turtle in Koyasan. The world is said to rest on the back of a giant turtle; here, it holds up a stone memorial tablet (Photo: F. Bernier)

Photos by Stan Chin and Fred Bernier as marked. For more photos and captions, click here.
Photo copyright 2007 by individuals as indicated

All of us have many photos from the trip, so we decided to include some on the pages available here.


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