Recommendations about Japanese culture for foreigners

 I'll recommend the tea ceremony and flower arrangement, Japanese culture, to foreigners.

 The tea ceremony and flower arrangement are definitely Japanese culture and you can easily feel "Japan".

The tea ceremony goes back to the Kamakura period(1185~1333) and now many people tell their pupils how to treat the guests. You can learn not only how to treat them but also seeing the flowers, tools, and pictures. In addition to that, You can eat delicious sweets! Wagashi is mild sweets and except dry Japanese sweets, it often contains white or black an(anko), which is called "bean jam". Wagashi is many kinds of shapes, such as flowers, leaves, or fruits. You can learn the tea ceremony while eating Wagashi and drinking green tea. If you will get used to the tea ceremony and to drinking green tea, you will be able to wear the beautiful Yukata or Kimono and go to the tea ceremony party with ease.

The flower arrangement is also the one of the traditional cultures in Japan. It goes back to the Heian period(794~1185). There are a lot of schools of  the flower arrangement now, and many people arrange flowers in a vase or a container.You can feel the four seasons and sense the person have through arranged flowers because flowers are changed in all seasons. Japanese flower arrangement demands "nature", So when you arrange them, you know it is difficult that you let others see they are blooming naturally. But I think it's very good experience for you.



We went to Ikuta temple and made maccha for our guests.



the tea ceremony and flower arrangement school is expensive, so you should go to there club at the Kansai Gaidai. You can learn a lot of things about Japanese culture there!


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