JAPANWEEK part 2: Second event day

Hello ♡ readers!

First I want to say THANK YOU for the nice comments to my last entry. That made me very happy, please feel hugged by me (*^o^*)/° 

But now lets start to write about the second event day of the Japanweek ~

May 4th programm

- Origami course
- Tea ceremony course
- Music evening

Because I am not soo much into Origami I only went to the Tea ceremony and Music evening. I have to say that the Tea ceremony was my personal highlight of the Japanweek. I am very much into such traditional Japanese things, it was kinda touching for me *laughs*

First they told us that you will always find also a calligraphie hung up during a tea ceremony. This one above means: nichi nichi kore koujitsu - every day is a good day!

A lovely message for all guests - which means you have to enjoy this special day. ♥

Then they explained the most important basic rules of Chadou (the way of tea) and we had to learn how to use and fold the fukusa - it´s not easy! It is used for the symbolic cleansing of the tea scoop and tea caddy, and (usually by women) to handle hot kettle or pot lids. The host and assistants at a tea gathering wear the fukusa tucked into the Obi.

After this we had to try making the green tea by our own in proper sequence. Here you can see my tea equipment and my first selfmade matcha ♥~

At the end of the tea ceremony course they performed a full ceremony for us. It was a very peaceful moment *tears*

 
LUNCHTIME - Off to the Maid Café


After the great Tea ceremony we all made a break and had something to eat. The menu of the day was curry with rice:

*nom nom* ♥

having fun at the café

Yes, also on the second day I wore Kimono:

wearing my fav Kimono - Tsukesage ♥

NEXT AND LAST POINT - Music evening


Around 18 pm the music evening started ~

the programm ~

They played mainly classical music with the piano, flute, trumpet and also with a shakuhachi. I liked Chopin´s pieces the most ♥  

Hope you had fun reading about the second day, please leave a comment. Thanks!
 

JAPANWEEK part 1: Preparations + first event day

Hello hello my dear readers!

Finally I have time to write a few new entries here. Yes, I wrote `a few´. I wanna tell you about the Japanweek and I have to split everything into 3 parts. The private language school called "F+U", located in Heidelberg, organized the Japanweek again (May 3rd-5th) and I am happy to say that I was a member of the Kimono/Yukata course (^_^)/°

THE PREPARATION TIME:

We started about 2 weeks before the event started to prepare everthing. We often met, had meetings, practiced the dressing part and I also translated a lot into German (most of our group members were Japanese people who learn German since a few months/weeks - we talked in English, Japanese and German *laughs*) for the presentation and dressing explanation. Everytime we met we worked at least 4 hours but it was always funny =3 Actually I should only help during the dressing part (Yukata), but ´cause I know much about Kimono I conducted the presentation with another member of our group as well.

I also helped with hanging up posters and handing out flyers in the city, which looked like this:

Our Yukata test dressings:

Since I collect only Kimono I wore Yukata for the first time. It´s very easy =D Maybe I will buy one someday ^_~


FIRST EVENT DAY:

May 3rd programm

- Kimono/Yukata course
- Japanseminar


Around 15 pm the Kimono/Yukata course started. We had about 20 guests. First we held our presentation:

We talked about the following things:

the meaning and origin of Kimono, Furisode, Obi musubi, Uchikake, Mofuku, Shichi-Go-San, Maiko and of course Yukata. We also prepared a little quiz for our guests =D Since I own a Furisode and many accessoires you need for it, we showed them during the presentation:

the accessoires

the Furisode

Then our guest had to try dressing themselves into Yukata without any help. Here you can see everything we provided:

After this we showed how it works correctly and also helped when they still needed some advice:

All had a lot of fun and wanted to know much about Kimono. ♥ And this picture shows all the Kimono group members together:

Thanks for the good work! m(_ _)m

Like you can see in the pics above I wore Kimono (what a surprise *haha*). Here you can see the whole ensemble for the first day:

I wore my Komon ♥

... with Asami-chan ♥

LUNCHTIME - Off to the Maid Café:

Everday the Maid Café offered many delicious Japanese meals. I never ate so much within 3 days =3 *yummy* The menu of the first day was Oyako-Don - my personal fav ♥ It was so good ♥

oishikatta desu ♥

NEXT AND LAST POINT - JAPANSEMINAR:

They talked about men society, women´s fashion and Sushi:

we could make our own sushi ♥

I hope you all had fun reading this entry and looking at the pictures. ありがとう ♥

Kushi and tekagami

Today I snatched this beautiful kushi (comb) and tekagami (handmirror) set for a reasonable price.

on the mirror you can see "hanaguruma" - flower cart ♥

the box

I just adore such traditonal motives, it was love at first sight ♥ I got it from a private sale. I think that I will show you my other few kanzashi someday, too.

Multi-seasonal bag

I really have to go on hiatus now ...

... just won this cute casual bag with many different motives:

sakura-bana (cherry blossoms), sakura no hanabira (cherry blossom petals), ko-tsuzumi (little taboret), kiku (chrysanthemum), momiji (maple), ume (plum), hagi (bush clover), seigaiha (semicircular repeated wave), shippou (interlocking circles), sensu (semicircular fans) and ryusui (flowing water)

I think it´s perfect along with Komon kimono (♥ω♥)/"

Recent wins part 4

I was weak again, what a shame >3< But look how beautiful they are: