Master Sando Kaisen can rely on the full support of Roshi Kosaka Kiyu from Sengakuji in Tokyo, an expert on transmission for Eiheiji and Sojiji. It was Kosaka Kiyu, who supported Sando Kaisen’s mission in France and Eastern Europe and encouraged him to create European Zen and distance himself from the Japanese Zen of today which is full of formalism and politics.
Master Sando Kaisen spent some time on the island of Kyushu and travelled with two friends of Roshi Kodo Sawaki – with Roshi Honda Kansho and Shibuya Ishi, a renowned disciple of Kodo Sawaki from Zuiji-Seki (near Shizuoka). All of them visited the tomb of Kodo in Entaiji together.