DAVEY, H. E.

PERSONAL:

Male. Education: Trained in the shin-shin-toitsu-do form of Japanese yoga in the United States and Japan; also studied the art of brush writing with Kobara Ranseki. Hobbies and other interests: Sports cars.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Center for Japanese Cultural Arts, Sennin Foundation, Inc., 1053 San Pablo Ave., Albany, CA 94706.

CAREER:

Teacher of Japanese arts, including martial arts, yoga, and calligraphy. Sennin Foundation, Inc., Albany, CA, president; also founder and director of Center for Japanese Cultural Arts. Kokusai Budoin, councilor at headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, director of U.S. branch, and teacher of nihon jujutsu and kobudo. Art work in the form of brush writing is exhibited annually in Japan.

MEMBER:

Shudokan Martial Arts Association (member of board of directors), Tempu Society.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Numerous awards for brush writing.

WRITINGS:

The Way of the Universe, Sennin Organization Headquarters (Berkeley, CA), 1985.

Unlocking the Secrets of Aiki-jujutsu, Masters Press (Indianapolis, IN), 1997.

Brush Meditation: A Japanese Way to Mind and Body Harmony, Stone Bridge Press (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

(With Ann H. Kameoka) The Japanese Way of the Flower: Ikebana as Moving Meditation, Stone Bridge Press (Berkeley, CA), 2000.

Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation, Stone Bridge Press (Berkeley, CA), 2001.

Living the Japanese Arts and Ways: Forty-five Paths to Meditation and Beauty, Stone Bridge Press (Berkeley, CA), 2003.

Contributor of articles and art work to periodicals, including Karate Kung-Fu Illustrated, Furyu: Budo Journal of Classical Japanese Martial Arts and Culture, Journal of Asian Martial Arts, Body Mind Spirit, Yoga Journal, Hokubei Mainichi, Nichibei Times, Gendo, Excellence—About Porsche, Porsche Panorama, and Miata. Editor of Michi Online: Journal of Japanese Cultural Arts.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Publishers Weekly, October 28, 2002, review of Living the Japanese Arts and Ways: Forty-five Paths to Meditation and Beauty, p. 66.

ONLINE

Michi Online: Journal of Japanese Cultural Arts,http://www.michionline.org/ (spring, 2000), Dave Lowry, review of Brush Meditation: A Japanese Way to Mind and Body Harmony.

Spirituality and Health: Spiritual Practices for Human Being,http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/ (January 21, 2003), Frederic Brussat and Mary Ann Brussat, review of The Japanese Way of the Flower: Ikebana as Moving Meditation.*