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“The evening of Kobayashi sensei’s conference revealed one of Keido’s key points: no valid rules can be asserted, but practice can continually improve your own sensitivity. The work to be done is therefore not to get lost in the search for the thousand rules, but to build a sensibility that is refned, to seek the purest and most sensitive refection of nature.” — Massimo BanderaTop and middle; Special guest, Kunio Kobayashi demonstrates on an old Taxus cuspidata before an enthralled audience.Bottom row; Master Kunio Kobayashi also presented a lesson on Kazari, the art of displaying bonsai and suiseki.