October 10, 2011: Tea ceremony party
F&S no kai hosted the tea ceremony party on Oct 10(Mon), 2011.
It was held at Genshin-an, Gyosen-koen park.
Genshin-an is a Japanese style house and surrounded with beautiful Japanese landscape garden, called Heisei Teien.
About 50 people including indians living in Kasai area joined the party.
In this event, they were offered a hands-on experience not only of drinking tea, but also of making green powdered tea: matcha. Although the manners of the tea ceremony seems not easy, looks like they could feel the atmosphere of the ceremony and the tastes of matcha & Japanese sweets.
After the tea ceremony, some cultural programs were also offered.
We believe the participants enjoyed the experience of Japanese traditional culture.
Some of our F&S's students also performed Indian dance and Japanese folk songs. The event was very good opportunity for cultural exchange.
【program】
[date] 10th October, 2011
[time] open 15:00 start 15:30
[venue] Genshin-an Gyosen-Koen-Park, 3-2 Kitakasai, Edogawa-ku
[perticipation fee] 500yen/adult 300yen/child under 10yrs old
M.C. Akiko Endo
15:30 Opening address by Yukiko Kamei（F&S representative）
Tea-ceremony
master of the tea-ceremony Taeko Hashida
16:30 Koto performance
Taeko Hashida & Michiko Sasaki
1.Kokin no Shirabe
2.Hanakage
3.Rokudan no Shirabe
17:00 Shamisen performance
Sachie Mito & Michiyo Kitamoto
1.Sakura Sakura 2.Honshirabe
17:20 Shin-buyo: Japanese classical dance
Kobayashi, Honda, Hatakeyama, and Ohba
1.Homare no Matsumotojo 2.Gaen no Fu
17:40 Taisho-goto performance
Shibata, Yoshida, Mori, and Sasamoto
1.Kojo no Tsuki
2.Kuroda Bushi
3.Odoriko
4.Kuroneko no Tango
18:00 Magic Show
Tsukiko Higashi
18:20 Japanese Folk Song, and Bollywood Dance
Dhara, Helen, Manju, Himani, Adila, Setsuko, and Sangeetha
Song Sangeetha's son
19:00 Bharatanatyam: Indian classical dance
Bhuvana Damodaran
