9. Honzan Shorinji (Shaolin Temple) Kagawa Japan 2000

No video footage here, but the event was too important in my journey to omit so please do take a look at the stills.

After World War II, Sou Doushin left his position as the Abbot of the Shaolin Temple in Northern China (Suzan Shorinji) and returned to his birthplace to rebuild the defeated spirits of the youth of Japan by establishing Japan's own Shaolin Temple (Honzan Shorinji) on the Island of Shikoku. In the Autumn of the year 2000, I travelled from Tokyo where I lived and worked to Shikoku with a group of seniors from 9th Dan Yamauchi Sensei's Shorinji Kempo Soshigaya Douin in Tokyo. I had more adventures in my many visits to Honzan Shorinji than I can possibly write about here, especially the events around the exams for my 1st and 2nd Dan belts, but consider these random thoughts - three 1000-man dojo on split levels of the mountain retreat, being called to morning studies by burly monks beating the temple's massive taiko drum, a dedicated school for the study of eastern and western physiology within the temple grounds, and a 24-hour kitchen serving good, hot, Japanese food for hungry students training into the wee hours of the morning. In a word, martial arts heaven.

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haha love the last 4 line of the informantion on the video! it truly does sound like martial arts heaven. I will experience this one day. :)