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Sendai Circle

A circle that spends more of its year outdoors than in.

Place
Sendai, Japan
Recognised
2010
Affiliated house
Cedar House
Assigned steward
Kenji Arakaki
Convener
Fumiko IdeKindergarten cook. Term began 2025; second and final consecutive year.
Ordinary meeting
Monthly, second Saturday, with a working morning each fortnight
Typical attendance
12 to 17
Access
Open on notice

Local history

Recognised in 2010. Its outward obligation changed once, in 2013, with the stewardship's agreement and after the previous partner closed.

The outward obligation

Repair and restoration

Coastal path and planting, held with a coastal restoration volunteer group.

Path repair, windbreak planting, and clearing. Six working mornings a season.

The forms it carries

  • The Quiet Twelve

    Twelve minutes are kept before the reading. Nothing is assigned to the silence.

  • The Boundary Walk

    At the start of each season the practical boundary is walked and what is wrong with it is written down.

  • The Weather Entry

    Before the first shared meal of the month, one person writes the weather in the house book.

The shared forms, as they are kept in the houses

Also attached to Cedar House

Elsewhere in Asia and Pacific