What is Jodo?

Jodo is a form of modern budo (way of the warrior) that is based on the traditional short staff techniques of the samurai, who ruled Japan during the Tokugawa Period from 1603 to 1868.

Jodo techniques allow one to control and subdue an opponent who is wielding a sword, using non-lethal techniques.

The legendary founder of jodo, Muso Gonnosuke, was said to have defeated the great swordsman Miyamoto Musashi.

Jodo techniques developed to control unruly samurai to keep the peace, and, in fact, Japanese policemen train in jodo to this day.

About Instructor

Peter Boylan has studied Japanese martial arts for more than 25 years. He trains in Shinto Muso Ryu Jodo under Matsuda Shigeharu Shihan of Osaka.

He began his Jodo training in 1994 in Shiga, Japan, and continues it with frequent visits to Japan.

He also trains in Kodokan Judo (3rd degree blackbelt) and Shinto Hatakage Ryu Iai Heiho (4th degree black belt).
Peter Boylan also holds a Masters Degree in Comparative Religions, with emphasis on Japan.

Date & Time: Every Thursday 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm

Class Fee: $15 (Iaido students get $5 discount)

Deeply relax your body and mind

through simple energy movement 

Date & Time: Every Wednesday 7:15 pm – 8:30 pm

Class Fee: $20 for adults  /  $15 for students

- Class Overview - 

• Experience a soft or yin approach to Ki or life-force cultivation
• Flowing movements stretch the body & stimulate the meridian systems
• Tachi zen – standing meditation – develops rich & abundant Ki flow
• Integrate movement, breath & mind power to tap into your life-force
• Suitable for all ages ,especially seniors, for longevity, balance, stress relief & abundant life-force

Ki development or cultivation involves working with one’s ki or life-force to fortify, strengthen & rejuvenate the body & mind.

It includes practices done seated, standing & those involving gentle, flowing movements that are usually coordinated with the breath.

Seated practice can be thought of as a type of seated meditation & in this way is similar to Zen meditation but also involves visualization, intention & accessing of inner energy flows. Often a seated practice can end or start with a quiet sitting which is similar to the practice of Shikantaza.

Standing practice is often referred to as standing meditation – sometimes known as taichi Zen & involves a relaxed coordination of body, breath & mind along with the holding of specific postures or shapes.

This practice appears deceptively simple from the outside but although not difficult involves a deep inner cultivation of generous amounts of ki or life force.

Also included is a flowing set of gentle movement practices that incorporate stretching & opening the physical as well as the energy body. These are combined with attention to breathing to integrate this process.

Integrating these simple practices over time can benefit the body & mind immensely – helping to reduce stress, promote health & longeveity & super charge one’s Ki or life force.

Ki is free & available for cultivation !

On June 3, we will hold a free 30-minute brief session from 2 pm to 3:00 pm. (two sessions)

Date & Time

        June 10 through August 26 (12 weeks) 

         Every Sunday from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Class Fee

12 weeks – $300 ($250 for students)
4 weeks – $110  ($90 for students)
1 week – $30  ($25 for students)

- Schedule -  

• Week1 : Life Drawing and Figure Drawing.
• Week2 : Life Drawing and Figure Drawing.  (practice drawing different action poses and learn human anatomy including bone structures and muscles )
• Week3 : Still life drawing (plants, animals, objects).  Draw imaginary creatures.
• Week4 : Draw faces, learn facial expressions (ex smiley, angry, sad, wondering, excited, etc….)
• Week5 : Draw different types of eyes, noses, mouths, ears, and hair.  (Realistic and Manga style)
• Week6 : Draw hands, arms, feet, and legs.  Cloth drawing. (learn how to draw different type of clothes and fabrics).
• Week7 : Create Character Board.  Learn how to develop your own character figures and how to present them.
• Week8 : Continue working on the character board.
• Week9 : Continue working on the character board and presentation.
• Week10 : Learn Perspective drawing.
• Week11 : Create one scene  illustration using black ink. (interaction with characters and  illustrate background also)
• Week12 : Learn Manga comic layout.
• Week13 : Create your own short manga comic based on your own story.(2 or 3 pages)
• Week14 : Continue working on your manga
• Week15 : Continue working on your manga and presentation.

About Instructor 

Yoko Yabe is a Japanese illustrator and painter. In 2004, she came to America to study media arts and animation at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. After graduating in 2007, she started working as a 3D designer at an architectural company in Japan, but soon realized that her real passion was to become an illustrator and a painter. She worked as a freelance illustrator for a film company, at a t-shirt factory, in publishing — and more — creating concept art, film posters, t-shirt designs, to name just a few. Mostly drawing women in her illustrations and paintings, and expressing the distinct personalities, lifestyles, and cultural backgrounds of each, her style features both traditional and modern Japanese arts. Ms. Yabe’s technique ranges from traditional canvas paintings to modern digital design.

Yoko Yabe  - Official Website
http://myartillustration.blogspot.com/

Art + Culture = Future

Date & Time

        June 6 through August 29 (12 weeks) 

         Every Wednesday from 3:30 pm to 4:45 pm

Class Fee

$300 for 12 weeks
$110 for 4 weeks
$30 for 1 week

- Class Overview - 

Japanese ink painting (Sumi-e) and Calligraphy
Sumi-e is a black and white painting so you have to focus on how many shades you can create by diluting black ink with water. And the soft brush enables children to create variety of marks. Sumi-e appears to be simple but requires greater concentration and invention in the process. Calligraphy is the graceful artistic representation of written characters using the same tools for Sumi-e.

Making a Dharma doll

- Class Schedule -
6/6  Japanese ink painting & Calligraphy Lesson 1

6/13 Japanese ink painting & Calligraphy Lesson 2

6/20 Japanese ink painting & Calligraphy Lesson 3

6/27 Origami Lesson 1

7/4 No class on July 4th

7/11 Origami Lesson 2

7/18 Origami Lesson 3

7/25 Folding Book Making Lesson 1

8/1 Folding Book Making Lesson 2

8/8 Folding Book Making Lesson 3

8/15 Folding Book Making Lesson 4

8/22 Making a Daruma doll

Green Earth

Bertille De Baudiniere

6/8 – 6/29 /2012

Opening Reception: 6/8 (Fri) 6:00pm – 8:00pm at Resobox Gallery

Admission: Free. Everyone is invited.

Bertille de Baudinière at Resobox Japanese Gallery presents her Green Earth paintings from 1989 in Tokyo together with her recent work in New York on the same theme. Her earlier work was inspired by the inherent harmony with nature found in Japanese culture.  Twenty years later,  Bertille looks at this idea differently, in light of a growing environmental crisis and in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.

In Baudinière ‘s original series of paintings, Green Earth refers to “a Nihonga pigment of the same name.  Symbol of the link that unites man and nature, Green Earth celebrates the cosmic dimension of Japanese Buddhism, the essential idea that man and the smallest part of grass are both part of a whole….. The artist paints the ideal space of a harmonious universe, of a calm living organism.”

Her recent work takes a broader view of “ Green Earth”. Baudinière writes :

The recent anniversary of the tsunami and Fukushima disaster made me aware of my time in Japan where I completed in 1989 my Green Earth series of paintings.

My exhibit “Green Earth “ is a continuation of my research during the 1980’s when global warming was not a real issue. Even if Japan was already covered with electric wires, the landscape of this island was paradise and the essence of beauty.

Part of the proceeds from the art sales in the exhibition will be donated to JEN, non-governmental organization for the victims of Tsunami and Earthquake happened in Japan 2011. Thank you for the support of Ms. Keiko Kiyama and Ms. Hamasaka from JEN.

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Bertille de Baudinière

Painter, Bertille de Baudinière, was born in Saint Malo, France.  She received her diploma from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris in 1982.  In 1986, she was granted a research scholarship by the Japanese government to attend the National University of Music and Arts in Tokyo.  Additionally, she got her MFA in painting from there in 1990.

Over the course of her creative career, Baudinière has distinguished herself and her work with an aesthetic practice on three continents through its diverse nature and the integration of social issues in her art.  She has always tried new ways to express her creative interests.  She experiments with new techniques and uses different mediums in order to explore recurring themes in the work. This keeps it new and exciting; which is evident in her current Green Earth exhibit.  The work is colourful, vibrant and powerful.

This active creative approach has led to interest in Baudinière’s work from many different audiences in different places all over the world.  She has exhibited internationally at galleries and museums including the Islip Art Museum, Long Island; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha; Tomura Gallery, Tokyo; Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris; Zurdorfer Wehrturm Museum, Cologne; and Salon d’automne in China amongst others. The result of this is that her art has been seen and acquired by many. Baudinière’s work is in the following collections: the Museum of Landau, Germany; Fondation Danielle Mitterand; Bemis Center; Fondation des Etats-Unis; and the General Confederation of Labor in France.

The artist has been reviewed and featured in various publications such as Nice-Matin, the Omaha World Herald and the Cologne Stadt-Anzeiger.  She was also featured in the Unesco Editions Collections.  Her paintings have appeared in three issues of Le Monde Diplomatique, including the abstract acrylic, Violence, used as the cover illustration after the September 11 attacks in the United States.

In addition to painting, Baudinière has completed other kinds of projects within her oeuvre.  For example, she designed the set for Antonin Artaud’s, Le Samourai in Tokyo in1988.  She has also completed many videos in conjunction with her exhibits.  The most recent of which was Blue earth in 2011.

Finally, throughout her career Baudinière has been active in bringing art to a wider audience.  She has organized many group shows for fellow artists and she has taught art to children, and adults.  She is currently serving as the curator of Green Queens, an environment-themed postcard project at the L.I.C. Kids’ Art Festival.

Official Website of Bertille De Baudiniere

Artist Statement: English  / Japanese

Date & Time: Every Friday 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Class Fee: $100 per month

By learning other cultures, your kids will be well prepared for a life in a global world.

About the Instructor

Ayakoh Furukawa has practiced calligraphy through Nihonshogei-in since she was seven years old, receiving many awards. She also studied under Zen monk calligrapher and painter Sougyu Kashimoto in Osaka, Japan. In New York, she studied Japanese and Chinese Art History at Hunter College, the City University of New York where she received the Master of Fine Art. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited internationally at numerous art institutions such as Japan Society, Jersey City Museum and the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art.

All classes are held once a week.

Monday
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm    Japanese Classical Dance for Kids (8 – 11 years old)
6:30 pm – 7:45 pm    Japanese Classical Dance  (12 years old or above)

Tuesday
6:30 pm – 7:45 pm    Okinawan Dance  (8 years old or above)

Wednesday
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm    Japanese Art for Kids (5 – 11 years old)
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm   Yoga  (Anyone is welcome)
7:15 pm – 8:30 pm    Ki Development (Anyone is welcome)

Thursday
6:30 pm – 7:45 pm    Samurai Sword  (12 years old or above )
8:00 pm – 9:15 pm    Stick Fighting Techniques  (16 years old or above)

Friday
4:00 pm- 5:00 pm    Ink-Painting for kids  (5 – 11 years old)

Saturday
10:00am – 11:30 pm    Japanese Traditional Karate  (5 years old or above)
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm    Ink-Painting  (12 years old or above)

Sunday
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm    Japanese Anime Character Drawing for kids  (5-11 years old)
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm    Manga Drawing  (Anyone is welcome)

For any class at Resobox, all materials will be provided to beginners.

If you have any questions about our workshops, please ask us anytime at info@resobox.com or 718-784-3680

RESOBOX Multimedia Performance Series 1

君の視点　/   Kimino Shiten

- Experience Hyper-dimensions -

Performed by Water Brain

Water Brain is a shifting ensemble of musicians who prefer acoustic/electronic layered experiments. They incorporate their talents combining acoustic performance with audio loops and shifting tides of effects. It is the sound of the auditory hallucination that occurs while in a crowd…under the sea.

Water Brain is both the vision of and was founded by Fumio Tashiro aka Bombsun. Bombsun is versed in music with a background in jazz. He plays an electric upright bass with applied effects. For this experimental performance the line up for Water Brain will be will be Mike Wilson, Nick Chen, and Jun Ando,and Dance performance by Yukari Osaka.

WATER BRAIN official web site

Fundamentally, for any of the events that feels conflicting in life, there exists only a neutral standpoint where there is neither good nor bad. In spite of this, it is your mind which signifies that it is “a problem.”

Therefore, unless you transcend your mind, make a shift towards a viewpoint of a higher dimension and go into a deeper state of calmness, you won’t be able to solve any of your problems, nor will you be able to attain tranquility or happiness.

“Transcending your mind” is precisely nothing but “Emptying your mind.” I have discovered the way to achieve this state in “The Sacred Himalayan teachings.” By mastering this teaching through rigorous ascetic training, I am now here to share with all of you, the essence of how to empty your mind.

About Yogmata Keiko Aikawa

Yogmata Keiko Aikawa was born in Yamanashi, Japan, and has long been on a quest to explore the human condition. A Yogi since the age of 15, she has developed and organized what she calls Aikawa Yoga since the 1970s, and is working to spread this yoga in Japan. Her love of humanity has also led her to understand three things: the essence of human beings; that it is possible to show them the power of self-healing; and that human beings can transmit Anugraha Shakti to heal others.

In 1985, she met the legendary great master, Hari Baba. Since then, she has undergone austere and rigorous training at altitudes of between 5,000 and 6,000 meters in the Himalayas. Under the guidance of Hari Baba, Yogmata Keiko Aikawa is the first non-Indian woman to realize the ultimate state of samadhi – a spiritual level that transcends the state of Awareness and in which a state of Oneness is attained with the Godhead.

Today, Yogmata Keiko Aikawa is an author, public speaker and highly regarded and well-respected Siddha Master. She has performed samadhi at India’s sacred locations as well as at the Maha Kumbh Mela, a sacred event that occurs only once every 144 years.

Yogmata Keiko Aikawa’s tireless contributions, remarkable presence and teachings have since been recognized and awarded; and in 2007 she was bestowed – by the largest spiritual Austerities Association in India, Juna Akara – the title “Mahamandaleshwar” (The Supreme Master of the Universe). In 2009, His Holiness the Dalai Lama even wrote the introductory note to her book, A Himalayan Master’s Simple Way to Realization.

Yogmata Keiko Aikawa has been featured across all media channels, including CNN, BBC, The Japan Times, and The Times of India.

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Contact

Tel: 718-784-3680
Email: info@resobox.com

Location

Resobox Gallery
41-26 27th Street,
LIC, NY 11101 USA

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If you are familiar with “Hello Kitty,” “Pikachu” and “Rilakkuma,” then you can easily understand kawaii characters. In this class, using these two concepts together, we will explore Japanese contemporary drawing style to create kawaii characters of our own vision and design.

Date & Time:  Every Sunday 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm  (Trial class – $10 for 30 minutes from 12:30 pm -1:00 pm with prior registration)

Class Fee:  $100 per month

 - Brief Course Description -

Week 1 : Introduce some of the Japanese Anime Character such as Doraemon, Pikachu and Hello Kitty and learn how they are different from American comic character

Week 2: Students watch a Doraemon film for 10 minuetes and draw their favorite character

Week 3:  Student watches a Pikachu film for 10 minuetes and draw their favorite characters

Week 4: Now students start creating their own Anime Characters with the ideas of Japanese Anime that they learned last three classes

Once every three months, all artworks created by students will be exhibited at Resobox Gallery.

About Instructor

Yoko Yabe is a Japanese illustrator and painter. In 2004, she came to America to study media arts and animation at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.

 After graduating in 2007, she started working as a 3D designer at an architectural company in Japan, but soon realized that her real passion was to become an illustrator and a painter. She worked as a freelance illustrator for a film company, at a t-shirt factory, in publishing — and more — creating concept art, film posters, t-shirt designs, to name just a few.

 Mostly drawing women in her illustrations and paintings, and expressing the distinct personalities, lifestyles, and cultural backgrounds of each, her style features both traditional and modern Japanese arts. Ms. Yabe’s technique ranges from traditional canvas paintings to modern digital design.