Activity
Activity
Wa Culture International Communication proposes opportunities to experience Japanese culture through the five senses in order to nurture a rich spirit.
Japanese tea ceremony and tea culture
In tea ceremony, you practise etiquette such as odamae (tea ceremony etiquette), how to handle utensils, how to walk in a Japanese room and how to bow. In tea culture, you learn about the history of Japanese tea, its types, ingredients and how to make delicious tea.
Japanese calligraphy
Learn the history of calligraphy, the basics of beautiful writing and deepen your understanding of the origins of hiragana and kanji. Activities are also undertaken to promote the registration of calligraphy as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in Japan and abroad.
Ikebana
Matching colourful seasonal flowers, plants and trees with flower vases, ikebana cultivates a sense of colour, enjoys harmony of mind and develops sensitivity.
Fragrance culture and incense making
Using fragrant wood and incense implements, visitors cultivate a rich mind by ‘listening’ to the fragrance (tasting the fragrance while bringing the mind to the fragrance). Incence making uses matcha (discarded powdered green tea) as the raw material for the fragrance, and the world's first beautiful matcha incense is made by moulding it in a wooden confectionery mould.
Japanese dance
Japanese dance, which involves wearing beautiful kimonos, depicting natural scenery and expressing the heart, can nurture a rich emotional development while learning manners and behaviour.
Japanese dress and etiquette
You will learn how to dress in traditional Japanese costume, learn etiquette, which is the basis of consideration for others, and practise manners such as how to bow and how to behave.
Samurai sword dance
This is a traditional art form of sword dance that uses a Japanese sword and a fan to express the emotions and scenes of the samurai. The performance is a real experience of the kata that the Samurai used to perform to unify their spirit before a battle.
Japanese food
Japanese food and the traditional food culture of the Japanese people was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2013. Learn about the ideal nutritional balance based on one soup and three vegetables, while enjoying the beauty of nature and the changing seasons.
Making Japanese sweets
Learn to make and taste beautiful wagashi, a seasonal treat. Learn how to easily reproduce them at home, using ingredients that are easy to find.
Zazen (seated meditation)
Zazen, sitting with a correct posture, is a meditation method to calm the mind, look at oneself and strengthen the spirit. When the body is attuned, the mind is also attuned.
Etegami
Etegami is a form of heartfelt postcard writing in which pictures are drawn and words are written on the postcard. Practise how to hold a brush and draw lines, then draw seasonal flowers, vegetables, fruit and other motifs found around you to express your kindness and sympathy for others.
Origami
Origami is a traditional Japanese game and art in which paper is folded to create beautiful shapes. Learn basic folding techniques and try your hand at cranes, paper planes, balloons and helmets, as well as medicine balls and shuriken, which are made by folding several sheets of paper into the same shape and combining them.