I was recently invited to lead a workshop on Aikido during a four-day symposium on "MA" (間) taking place at the University Tohoku located in Sendai, Northeast Japan. The symposium featured a fifteen or so people from science and the arts, all recognized experts of their respective disciplines. Among these many encounters, I was able to meet Katsura Sunshine (桂三 輝), from his real name, Gregory Robic, a Canadian who can boast of being the only non-Japanese master of Rakugo (落語, literally "the falling words") to be officially recognized by the Kamigata Rakugo Association.
