[2] Tetsuo Sokatsu received dharma transmission from Soyen Shaku at the age of 29.
[3] Sokatsu continued his travels outside Japan for two years, visiting Burma, Ceylon and India, where he lived with "barefoot sadhus".
[3] Soyen Shaku put him in charge of Ryōbō Kai, and gave him the hermitage-name "Ryobo-an".
At the end of World War II Sokatsu closed Ryōbō Kai, but the lay practice was continued by his dharma heir Koun-an Roshi.
[2] In 1906, Sokatsu went to California[1] with a group of fourteen students, including Gotō Zuigan and Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki.