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Japanese
Culture and Language Class of 2009 On this day, Yuko
sensei taught the students haw to count and to express the time, date,
and days of the week in Japanese. We were very impressed with the
students' efforts. You can visit the class thought the videos.
Activity 1 Chigiri-e (torn paper collage) and Kiri-e (cutout picture) On
this day, the students started by learning how to introduce their
family and friends to others. After the break, it was time to do Chigiri-e (torn
paper collage) and Kiri-e
(cutout picture). Everybody chose their favorite colours from the
assortment of Japanese paper and picked out a design. If was
fascinating to watch them concentrate and put together their creations,
each brimming with their personalities.
Activity 2 Sushi
After
the students learned Japanese table manners and how to order food and
drinks, it was time to make sushi. On this day, the Japanese class was
more lively than usual because Toshinori, Toshiya, and Yoshimi, the
Japanese students, had joined the class. Yuko sensei provided some
avocados, dried gourds, and cucumbers as ingredients, and the students
set out to make their culinary delights. It was hard for them initially
to balance the ingredients with the seaweed and rice as it was their
first time making sushi. They persevered, however, and finally the
plates were filled with lots of beautiful sushi. The best part was
eating the sushi at the end, and everybody felt something special from
these sushi as they had made them themselves.
Activity 3 Calligraphy and Sumi-e (ink and wash painting) The students tried their hand at traditional Japanese calligraphy today, all of them for the first time. It seemed difficult at first to use the fude (brush) and sumi (ink), but everyone got used to them very quickly after practicing tome (stop), hane (jump), and harai (sweeping), three different ways of ending brush strokes. By the end of the class, each student had written their own word in Japanese on Japanese calligraphy paper. Their works were so amazing, it was hard to believe they hadn't done this before! At a later date, the students tried sumi-e (ink and wash painting). Each work is unique and shows each student's personality. The works are now displayed in our classrooms and the school clinic room, creating a healing atmosphere for our clients.
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Activity 4 KIMONO On this day, the students learned how to done a kimono. Yoko sensei, Senior administrator of the CCST, and Toshiko, one of our students, brought their own yukata (casual summer kimono) for everyone to wear. Students wearing yukata for the first time were very interested in their structure and the customs surrounding their use.
Activity 5 Tea Ceremony The day was all about fun and games, and the students learned much about Japanese language and culture through such traditional Japanese pastimes as tako-age (kite-flying), fukuwarai (a game where players pin different parts of the face onto a blank face with hilarious results, much like Pin the Tail on the Donkey), and karuta (a card game, a version of which can be used to teach hiragana, the basic Japanese alphabet). Indeed, the students had fun learning how to say certain parts of the body in Japanese through the fukuwarai, and they seemed fascinated by the shape of the Japanese hiragana characters on the karuta. It wasn't long before the students were excitedly and seriously playing the game to win.
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