Tea Ceremony Workshop

Saturday, September 24, 2022
Venue: Minato City Life -long Learning Center

Fortunately, we had good weather on the day though we had been worried about the typhoon. We had a total of 17 attendees, including non-Japanese.

　In Japan, September represents a season of chrysanthemum.  Although the day of “Choyo-no-sekku,” one of the five important seasonal days, was already over, we selected a flower-shaped sweet called “kise-nishiki” (left photo) related to the said festivity date.

　During the workshop, many interesting questions were raised from attendees, concerning appropriate kimono to wear, suitable “Obi” belt, manners to observe in a tea room, decent behavior during the tea ceremony, etc.  The workshop was over before we knew it.

(Written by KASAHARA M., Standing Director, the Hands-on Cultural Workshop Committee, and translated by KODAMA Y., the PR & Internet Committee)