Dōjō 道場
Japanese word for a hall of training, first a place of Buddhist practice and later of martial arts; kinbaku schools also call their teaching spaces dojo.
Dōjō today usually means a place where martial arts or other physical and mental disciplines are practiced. Japanese encyclopedias trace the word to a translation of the Sanskrit bodhi-maṇḍa, the seat beneath the bodhi tree where the Buddha reached enlightenment. From there it came to mean any place of Buddhist practice, and in Japan the meaning later widened to halls for martial arts training.
Kinbaku teaching borrowed the word. Osada Steve’s timeline records that in 2002 he added dojo facilities for intensive kinbaku study to his venue Studio SIX, opened the Osada-ryū head dojo in Tokyo in 2007, and officially opened an Osada-ryū dojo in Berlin in May 2008.