Chris;

You trying to say something in Japanese? What you typed above does not make sense.......

Michae;

Kezurou Kai is a Japanese woodworking group.. maybe that's what he means.. ?

Well that's a little bit better. Thanx to Asuka-san for the translation.

Michael

Keizuroh-kai is a carpenters organization in Japan. Each year they get together for fun and competition. The 2005 gathering will be held this month (September) in Hakone. Anyone going?

Sorry, Chris - Kezurou-kai is the carpenters organization in Japan.. which is sponsored by the The Hida Tool Company

The Japanese words 'Kezurou' means: person who shares knowledge, and 'Kai' means: a gathering of people

['Keizuroh' as Michael pointed out, is a non-word in Japanese & the closest match on Google is Keizer-kai.. which is apparently a 'pornopalace']

Here's the 2005 application form ... for the other place ;)

Jack

Here is a link that might be useful: kezurou kai

Asuka is right, 'kezurou-kai' (which could also be written as 'kezuroh'-kai - depending on romanization system) is a Japanese organization dedicated to craftsmanship in traditional carpentry. "keizuroh", or "keizurou" for that matter, is a non-word in Japanese as far as I know too.
However, Asuka is not right in translating 'kezurou' as "person who shares knowledge" - it is a high school level character read: kezu(ru), as well as so(gu) and so(geru), with a on-yomi (Chinese reading) of SAKU; the meaning is: "slice off, whittle down, sharpen", with associated meanings of 'detract from' and 'dampen'. This is according to my Spahn-Hadamitzky dictionary. To shave off something, in Japanese is 'kezuri-toru'. Kezurou-kai means: 'planing meet' -i.e., people gathering to study and compete in, planing. Kezurou-kai also features demonstrations of other traditional hand tools in use, and has tool retailers plying their wares.
Also, the Kezurou-kai is not sponsored by Hida Tool - they are an independent non-profit organization for whom Hida has coordinated the bringing over of Japanese carpenters for the three Kezurou-kai USA sessions held so far. Hida also organizes trips to Japan which coincide with Kezurou-kai meets over there, as well as tour Japanese architectural sites of note, typically visiting Osaka, Kyoto, and Takayama.
I am a bit puzzled why Chris74Robinson posted that piece here however, as this is a gardening forum and not a carpentry forum. For carpentry, I might suggest that he look at the Japanesetools.com forum, where he will find discussions along these lines.

Thanks for the explanation Kikujunjo, and pardon my 'high school' Japanese hehe (which is actually quite a compliment ) :)

I too wondered what the motivation was for Chris74 to post this here wih no elaboration in his initial post

Jack