 The International Center in Tokyo ICT "Japanese Culture Program 2015" for the students from Cincinnati started from January 7th and did 7 sessions for 3 weeks. ICT special workshop master got together and introduced many cool aspects of Japan for the students including fun hands-on activity! Get to know more Japan under the concept of "Cool Japan"  A special thank-you to all students and instructors for sharing a great time with us! We hope students got a deeper understanding of Japanese "Cool" Culture! We would like to express our gratitude to Tamura san, Sakamoto san and Sasaki san for giving us a wonderful chance to have Japanese Cultural Classes! *Comments from an Incul teacher *We learned how to use Furoshiki. It can be used as a bag, a plastic bottle holder and a hat. Remember the square knots!!  Session 2: Company Visit "Futaba-en"(染の里 二葉苑) on January 8th, 2015 Experience Futaba's Hand-prints "Edo-Sarasa" *We learned how to dye Kimono, called Edo Sarasa. Now you know how sensitive Kimono is!  *Rakugo is a comedic storyteller and one of Japanese old culture. ボルボ亭イケ也 who is from Sweden performed Rakugo in English. Let's remember one of the characters' name in a story called 「じゅげむ」. じゅげむ じゅげむ ごこうのすりきれ かいじゃりすいぎょの すいぎょうまつ うんらいまつ ふうらいまつ くうねるところに すむところ やぶらこうじの ぶらこうじ パイポパイポ パイポのシューリンガン シューリンガンのグーリンダイ グーリンダイのポンポコピーのポンポコナーの ちょうきゅうめいのちょうすけ  *We learned about Imperial Palace and history today. Let's go there and review what sensei taught!  Session 5: Japanese Tea Experience 1 ~ How to brew Japanese tea ~ Haruna Yamamoto san (Japan Tea Instructor) on January 20th, 2015 *This is not about tea ceremony but how to make good tea at home. Wait for 30 seconds and you can enjoy the great tea!  Session 6: Japanese Tea Experience 2 ~ How to be a tea master ~ Haruna Yamamoto san (Japan Tea Instructor) on January 21st, 2015 *We tasted different types of tea with Japanese snacks, かりんとう, いもけんぴん,せんべえ. Everyone found their favourite tea, and they became a tea master!!  Session 7 (last session): Japanese Stereotype, Jojo (ICT founder) on January 22nd, 2015 *Today's lecture was about stereotypes. We exchanged our stereotypes between the States and Japan. Are we Otaku? Are you the coolest person? I didn't know that everything in Texas is bigger than other area in the States. Anyway, it was very interesting. Today we ICT staff also learned States stereotypes laughing a lot together! |
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