Japan 2003 (Photos courtesy of Jonathan Slovacek)

  Tanemura Shōtō-sōke, John Lindsey, and George Kohler taking a break at the at the Guest room (Visiting the Takanashi Mansion in Noda-shi).

  Tanemura Shōtō-sōke in front of the Izanagi Shrine (Nantaisan) on Mt. Tsukuba.

  (From left to right) John Lindsey, Tanemura Shōtō-sōke, George Kohler and Jonathan Slovacek. Sitting on a cliff near the Izanami Shrine (Nyotaisan) on Mt. Tsukuba.

  Tanemura Shōtō-sōke and Jonathan Slovacek on a cliff near the Izanami Shrine (Nyotaisan) on Mt. Tsukuba.

  (From left to right) Kneeling: George Kohler, Nagamoto Jin Shihan, Tanemura Shōtō-sōke, James Wright Shihan, and John Lindsey. Standing: Kevin Chapman and Jonathan Slovacek.

  Tanemura Shōtō-sōke and John Lindsey.

  Tanemura Shōtō-sōke and George Kohler after testing for his 3rd dan.

Japan 2005 Genbukan World Taikai

  (From left to right, starting from the bottom row) John Lindsey, Tanemura Shōtō-sōke, and George Kohler. Back row is Kevin Geaslin and a former student.

George Kohler in front of the newly built Genbukan Honbu Dōjō kamiza.

  Tanemura Shōtō-sōke (next to Troy Wideman Kyoshi) during a tour of Nikkō Rinnō-ji temple. The building behind is the Sanbutsu-dō of the Rinnō-ji Temple.

  The carvings of the three wise monkeys (sanzuru) on the Nikkō Tōshō-gū shrine's sacred horse's stable.