Eido Tai Shimano-roshi

At the urging of his teacher, Soen-roshi, Eido-roshi left Japan in 1960 to be a resident monk at the Koko-an Zendo in Hawaii. Four years later, he arrived in New York City, where he became Zen Master of the Zen Studies Society. Throughout the 1960s he often served as the translator for Yasutani-roshi, accompanying the senior monk on his travels in the United States and around the world.