Graphics related to Shunryu Suzuki and early SFZC

Heart Sutra cards from early Sokoji - two sided one page and four sided two page. And some other Heart Sutra and other sutra images.

Sokoji mon - emblem

Soko stands for San Francisco

and ji means temple

Sokoji temple seal
and standard kanji
below

Wonder who did this. Maybe Hoitsu Suzuki.

Mitsu - sumi kanji above - New Year's card below

All Wind Bells

Tozen Akiyama kindly translated it as

"I wish you Happy New Year," literally, "I respectfully say the joy/delight of the beginning spring."

Hatsuharu no

oyorokobi

tsutsushinde

moshiagemasu.

Gantan Mitsu Gassho

This was sent before the conventional Western New Year. In Japan they use the new calendar and the old calendar for different purposes. They have a way of not erasing the old when they add the new. The traditional New Year in Japan, China, and all Asia I guess, is early February, the beginning of spring, the traditional seasons beginning about six weeks earlier than in the West, when there's a hint of the season. Sort of like Groundhog Day being the hint of spring. - dc

Mitsu Suzuki cuke page

Given to Christina Huggins and David Cohen by Silas Hoadley after he performed their wedding ceremony using language he'd learned from Suzuki.

Calligraphy for Silas Hoadley

Eiheiji mon Sojiji mon

Kobun Chino and Katrin Otogawa's jointly calligraphed character for shine, hikari, for To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki (now Zen is Right Here: Anecdotes and Teaching Stories from Shunryu Suzuki)

Three by Kishizawa Ian, Suzuki's 2nd teacher

Two by Oka Sotan, Kishizawa's teacher

See Ancestors page

these sumie from the great Terebess Buddhist site in Hungary

Tassajara han

Tassajara bath chant

(displayed at bathhouse)

Bath Entering Verse {nyūyoku no ge 入浴偈}
Bathing the body, {moku yoku shin tai 沐浴身体}
may all living beings {tō gan shu jō 当願衆生}
wash body and mind free from dust, {shin jin mu ku 身心無垢}
pure and shining within and without. {nai gai kō ketsu 内外光潔}

from Terebess

Poster for Gary Snyder benefit poetry reading for Tassajara Zen Mountain Center fundraising drive.