AKR Update Feb. 2016
Dear
AKR Members and Friends,
It
has been very warm in San Jose and spring is almost everywhere and the cherry blossoms
have just started to bloom, which is blooming about 20 days earlier than usual. I hope spring is coming to your area, too,
and you feel warmer and easier to practice when you practice outside.
<deleted>
Please
share the news in this edition with your members.
Sincerely,
Yoshiko Buchanan, AKR President
From
the AKR:
1) <deleted>
2) The AKR Board
is discussing about buying a liability insurance (accident and D & O)
policy.
<deleted> the AKR
has realized that that the AKR had been unguarded against any legal liabilities
and threats. Also it is good to have our
own liability insurance for accidents.
Bows and arrows are projectile weapons basically. Even though the study of the way of the bow
is to become a gentleman no one can predict accidents <deleted>. One time an arrow
went through the window of the “Kanteki” in Japan and hit a student who was
inside the Kanteki and watching the shajo.
Kyudo is not a combat budo, so it is hard to think the kyudo
training breaks our bones but it is possible that we may be hit or we may hit
somebody. The AKR has been fortunate
that they have had 19 seminars without any serious accidents. I believe that buying such a liability
insurance can benefit all of the AKR members.
2) 2015 AKR Roster: Should be done by now! The final roster has not been announced yet by the AKR
secretary. If you have not sent your
roster please cooperate with the AKR secretary and the treasurer to
submit. Your cooperation is greatly
appreciated.
<deleted> sensei is
working hard to collect the information
from all the AKR federations.
Your cooperation is greaty appreciated and please do not forget to send
the dues to the AKR treasuer.
It is time to update
the AKR roster. The info and the details
of the procedure have been notified by the AKR secretary. Please read the note carefully and submit the
roster + dues payment in time. You
are requested to send the IKYF ID renewal fees ($9 per pserson) together with
the AKR dues. Note: This AKR Roster update is co-managed with the
IKYF ID renewal, so please pay extra attention to submit those different
applications.
The AKR has received
the official note on the 2016 IKYF/AKR seminar in Minnesota.
Here
is the info from the MNKR for you to read.
The seminar/Test
information will be updated by the organizer, so please pay attention to both
the MNKR web site and the AKR website as well.
All,
I
am pleased to invite you all to the 2016 International Kyudo Federation
American Seminar. The 3-day general
seminar will take place July 18th - 20th, with a rank examination on July 21st. We will once again be hosting the seminar at
Carleton College in Northfield, MN Please see the attached letter of invitation
and official announcements from the IKYF for the details. All seminar information is also available on
our website at: http://www.mnkyudo.org/2016-ikyf-seminar/The cost for this
3-day seminar will be $410. While the
planning committee wanted to keep the fee the same as last year, the IKYF
insisted on raising the price to account for some of their costs.
We
are also trying to see if we can arrange for an enteki exhibition event, but it
will depend on weather and if we can get the college to let us use the fields
behind the Rec Center to do this (so far, so good!). Stay tuned for more info
about that!
As
more information becomes available, we will be posting update to our website
and our MNKR Facebook page.
I
would also like to take this opportunity to thank those from outside the MNKR
who volunteered to be on the 2016 Seminar Planning Committee, they have already
been tremendously helpful and I look forward to continuing to work with them in
the upcoming months.
I'm
looking forward to seeing all of you in Minnesota this July!
Carly
J Born
Minnesota
Kyudo Renmei
4) Creating an AKR annual
tournament: <deleted> sensei and the AKR
member have been discussing a possible tournament styles and procedure. Thank you both of you for taking your time to
create a national tournament. Once the
outline of the idea is finalized it should be presented to the AKR Board for
approval. All of the AKR members are welcome to
introduce your ideas. Please contact <deleted> sensei at <deleted>
We look forward to hear from <deleted> sensei about the tournament plan(s).
Finally there were a couple of suggestions from one of the AKR
members. He has good experience of
tournament in Japan and his student as well.
I asked <deleted> sensei to talk with this person and obtain ideas for
further research to create tournaments in the US.
(This topic was unfortunately missed from the AKR Board meeting
agenda. However the result of the taikai
has been recorded and this record will be helpful when we need to select US
team members for the 2018 IKYF Taikai in Japan. )
5) AKR website: The AKR website has been updated
time to time with the latest news. The
new AKR logo is now used. I would like
to appreciate <deleted> dedication as the web-editor and <deleted> sensei assisting
him.
6) Dojo-Biraki (Grand opening) of the Redwood Dojo will be
held on the 29th of 2016.
<deleted> sensei’s private dojo
will be completed soon and she will celebrate the dojobiraki with her
friends. Congratulations!!
7) Creating a translation committee group: This has no challengers or volunteers yet (2/29/2016).
Volunteer wanted!
The committee should be able to plan to ask those volunteers to
contribute their translation skill and post some articles from the Kyudo
Magazine in the future. It will help to
make the AKR website more informative and useful. If you are interested in translating articles
please contact Yoshiko Buchanan at <deleted>
According to the ANKF officials they will permit us to work on the
articles of the Kyudo Magazine. Due to
the copyright of each article we are not allowed to create complete
translations of the articles but “Summary of articles” is allowed. How we summarize is the question but there
are many capable AKR bilingual members who are willing or interested in
translating and contributing their work to the AKR. If that works it would be very helpful to the
AKR members to deepen their study.
From the ANKF:
1) The details of the Special Chuso Shinsa in Minnesota has not been announced yet as of
2/29/2016. You will be informed as soon
as the AKR receives the final info and the written test questions as well.
2) 2016 Written test
questions: The ANKF will keep the written
test questions as they have been introduced however there will be a slight
change in wording. Once the final change
is made they will send out the updated version of the question list. (1/28/2016 from Mr. <deleted>)
3) Dan certificates: The rank certificates have been
sent to the federations and the affiliated countries by the ANKF. Dan certificates for
those who were promoted at the 2015 Special Chuo Shinsa in South Carolina were
sent to the AKR. The affiliated
countries will individually receive their dan certificates as well. (1/28/2016
from Mr. <deleted>)
4 Fletching issue The IKYF/ANKF office have been
requested to post the documents on the Fletching Issue”. All the federation presidents and the
representatives have the documents that were given by Mr. <deleted> at the SC
seminar last year. However some
questions are coming to the AKR office.
In order to provide the accurate information such documents should be
posted to the IKYF website along its Japanese version. I hope we will see it on the IKYF site soon.
Mr. <deleted>, ANKF office manager, who accompanied the teachers for the 2015
IKYF/AKR seminar briefly, explained about the “Fletching Issue” and what points
overseas students should pay attention to.
Making a very complex story short, the guideline from the ANKF is that we cannot use the “Ojirowashi (White tail sea eagles) and “Ohwashi (Sea eagles)” at any ANKF events. “Feathers
Certificate of Traceability” is available for those who have natural
fletchings. Also, besides the above
mentioned strictly protected eagles, owners should use this certificate to list
the fletching that they are currently using and to carry the certificates with
them when they travel.
The federation
presidents, shogos and representatives attended this meeting with Mr <deleted>. Please ask for more detailed
information about this issue from the participants of the meeting.
Those who attended this meeting are requested to share the
information, which will help to prevent any violations in the future.
The AKR office is planning to post the document (English) from the ANKF to
the AKR website.
(Not posted yet as of Nov. 30, 2015 due to a technical problem)
From the IKYF:
1) 2016 IKYF/EKF seminar
information:
Please see the attachment for details.
2) 5th Asia-Oceania
Semina (Nagoya): Is now closed. All the test
application forms, both pdf and original paper forms were sent to the ANKF
office on the 27th of this month.
Please go to “From the AKR” section to see the details of the
applications. The seminar Excel sheet
application should be sent soon and also the payment will be taken care of by
the AKR treasurer. Thank you <deleted>, for
taking care of the payment. You will find the attachments in
the Jan. edition. Please ask your
president or representative.
From the EKF:
1) Gérald Zimmermann sensei passed his Kyoshi test at Nagoya
Chuo Shinsa in Feb. 2016.
It is great news to us. Congratulations!!
The below is the message from the EKF president regarding the 2016
IKYF/EKF seminar.
Please read it along with the info from the IKYF. Please see the attachment of the IKYF/EKF
for the details
Dear Buchanan sensei
I hope this mail finds you well and in good shape and fine spirits.
Thank you for the additional information. I will forward the documents to
the national representatives.
I suppose that you have received the seminar guidelines for Europe. The IKYF seminars in Europe are
self-catering, thus accommodation need to book their own accommodation.
However, the Dutch Kyudo Renmei has set up a website to help participants and
give guidance: http://seminar.kyudo-renmei.com/
Best regards
<deleted>
From
the Affiliates
1) The other seminars in South America:
<deleted> sensei finished another seminar in Mexico City. <deleted> sensei assisted <deleted> sensei.
According to <deleted> sensei the seminar was well taught with great
patience.
During
the seminar the 2015 Andrew West award was presented by <deleted> sensei to <deleted>. <deleted>
is helping to distribute information that is forwarded by the AKR. Now all the groups have begun receiving the
info from the AKR. I would like to
appreciate her making efforts to do the job.
The
other seminars: One is in Port Alegre which is organized by the Brasil
Kyudokai. This seminar is mainly for beginners
with no rank and up to sndan. It is from
the 3/24 to 3/27 and Yoshiko Buchanan will be the instructor. The last
one is the Kubota Hanshi seminar in Buenos Aires from 5/27/5/29. Most
of the participants will be rank holders from shodan to godan and a few
mundans.
End of Feb. edition
Enjoy
your shooting in the spring air!
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