SAITO Retsu, Atsuma

斉藤烈

The Japanese art of kendama from a professional educator

As you see in the photo, “Kendama Ken-chan” often sports a kendama around his neck. As both a kendama master and an educator, he established a kendama club in his home town of Atsuma, and is working to form a new community from infants to the elderly with the generation-spanning policy of “no crying, be kind to others, and no farting”.