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Unsui Sensei, Jinenkan Kancho
Jinenkan Jissen Kobudo |
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Retired Lieutenant Colonel Fumio Manaka is our Master Instructor and one of the most celebrated heirs to traditional Japanese Samurai arts in the world. Sensei has over 40 years of experience in Kobudo (Japanese martial arts from the feudal period). He took the name Unsui ("independent seeker of enlightenment") as his Budo (martial arts) name when he founded the international Jinenkan™ organization.
Unsui Sensei regularly travels to the United States to conduct training seminars and to directly instruct his students. Likewise, students from Yasuragi Dojo travel to Japan to immerse themselves in Japanese culture and train with Sensei at the Jinenkan Honbu Dojo (headquarters) in Sensei’s home city of Noda, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
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Adam Mitchell, San Dan
Jinenkan Yasuragi Dojo, Dojo Cho |
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Yasuragi Dojo is under the direct leadership of Unsui Sensei’s personal student, Adam Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell offers himself completely to the students of the Yasuragi Dojo. He has traveled the world to learn, regularly brings students of his Dojo to Japan to train and has developed an internationally recognized learning and resource center dedicated to the preservation and authentic teachings of true Japanese martial and cultural arts. Mr. Mitchell’s life-long experience has afforded him the opportunity to make himself available to students of all ages and backgrounds. His personal goal is to provide the most genuine experience possible. He strives each day to be a positive role model to fellow students of martial arts.
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Sharon Nakazato, Sensei
Yasuragi Dojo Cultural Arts |
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Sharon Nakazato has been a student and teacher of Shodo as well as Japanese language, arts, and culture for many years. She studied intensively for 6 years in Japan (one year on scholarship) with Shinzan Kamijo, a celebrated 20th century master of Japanese and Chinese Brush Calligraphy, and she is licensed by the Japan Calligraphic Arts Association of Tokyo to teach Shodo. She has exhibited in Tokyo, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Washington.
Mrs. Nakazato received a BA in English Literature with a minor in Art History and MA in Comparative Studies (Japanese concentration) from the University of Michigan and studied in the graduate departments of Tokyo University and Sophia University in Japan. Her list of articles and translations includes articles in Japanese in major Japanese magazines, and books translated for Kodansha, among others. She held the English Editorship of The East Magazine for more than 3 years. In New York she has lectured at The Japan Society on comparative literature in Japanese and on Japanese Literature as well as Japanese Theatre in English. She served for 2 years as Vice-president of the Haiku Society of America and Co-Editor of the haiku quarterly Frog Pond.
Her art has expanded to include western painting, collage, and printing and is shown widely in NYC and the tri-state area.
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Victoria Prince, Sempai
Jinenkan Yasuragi Dojo, Assistant Instructor |
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Evan London, San Dan
Jinenkan Inazuma Dojo, Dojo Cho |
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Evan London has been studying the martial arts since the age of 9. He achieved the rank of Sandan (3rd Degree Black Belt) in the Jissen Kobudo Jinenkan in May of 2004. At that time Mr. London was granted the position of Dojo Cho (licensed training hall leader) by Fumio Manaka Sensei, Kancho of the Jinenkan. He is currently the only licensed Jinenkan Instructor residing in Connecticut. Mr. London has studied Kobudo under several of the most senior instructors in the Jinenkan, including regular training with his teacher, Manaka Sensei. In addition to being the an instructor at the Yasuragi Dojo, Evan is also Dojo Cho of the Jinekan Inazuma Dojo, located in Milford, CT. He has been teaching Kobudo to students of all ages since 1998. |
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| Peter Steeves, Los Angelas, CA |
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| Steve Greenfield, Swansea, Wales |
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| John Robinson, Liverpool, UK |
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| Eric Garner, Pennsylvania |
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| Chad Flakker, Pennsylvania |
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| Mario DeMol, Gent, Belgium |
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| Dale Joseph, Lubbock, Texas |
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| Amanda Charrier, Baltimore, MD |
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