Chris K. Taylor

OK so 4 posts a week was a little ambitious, maybe 4 posts a month at this rate. I’ve uploaded some more photos and I’m going to try (I think a little of the old ‘planning ahead’ is needed for this) to get more up this week.

The first three are from Kyoto and the rest were taken in Ohara - Musashi Village (Okayama)

While we didn’t get to see as much of Kyoto as I wanted (a tendon injury meant that I was in the hotel room for the whole day on our free morning) we were able to return for a few hours after visiting Ohara where Mark managed to get some photos of the Heian Shrine - my camera batteries were dead. We did manage to spend some time around the Musashi Dojo where we trained and spent the night (Many thanks to Hanshi for arranging this and the sensei who gave thir time to watch and instruct) before heading to Kyoto to pick up the bags and head for Izumisano, near Kansai Airport in Osaka. The countryside was a nice change. As much as I enjoyed Kyoto, it was so much more peaceful.

I’ll upload some more pictures from Ohara this week, as I said before. I also have a disposable camera that needs developing, when I get around to using the last of the film.

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We had been waiting for for over 2 years to travel to Kyoto to attend the World Butoku Sai. Looking back we had so little time for sightseeing as a lot of our time was spent at the events and formal dinners, but I wouldn’t change that for the world. The event was amazing; participants from the Honbu and Internation Division of Dai Nippon Butoku Kai attended to demonstrate their skill, a humbling experience to say the least.

I, and those I travelled with, managed to get some great photos though so I’ll be posting these over the next week. There are a lot of them to sort through but I should hit my target of at least 4 posts per week. I proabably won’t be writing as much as I had hoped to but I will try to get at least some commentry. For now, here are some of the early pictures from Kyoto. I think all of these were taken on the first day of the event (the day after we arrived).

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