Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

　　　　　　 　　Tea ceremony (Ochiyaya of Nakajima) 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Nodot (Nakano Bridge)

 On October 11th and 12th, "Tokyo Daichakai 2014" was held at Hamarikyu Onshi Garden.

This event started in 2008 to make people who are not familiar with the tea ceremony feel free to enjoy the tea culture and tea ceremony.

One of the main programs of "Traditional WA Impressive from Tokyo", which conveys the appeal of traditional Japanese culture both domestically and internationally, is to introduce the culture of tea and the culture of Edo and Tokyo that has nurtured it.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. In addition to three programs in the park, “Tea ceremony” (Ochiyaya in Nakajima), “Nodot” (Nakano Bridge), “Tea ceremony first experience” (Hanagien)”, a performance of Edo peddler, Edo Dai-Kagura, a stage event with a sumo jinku, Nihon Buyo and shakuhachi, a shakuhachi, a shakuhachi, and a shakuhachi, a shakuhachi, a stage event.

In the "Nodot" corner, in addition to the "Nodot" (3 seats in total) by the tea ceremony federations in Itabashi-ku, Kita-ku, and Chuo-ku, the "English Nodot" by the Meguro-ku Tea Ceremony Federation, and the Tokyo High School Cultural Federation Tea Ceremony Division "High school student field point" is organized.

At the Nodot of the Chuo-ku Tea Ceremony Federation, listen to explanations of the differences between manners and others depending on the school, and listen to the story about the tea utensils on display after receiving them.

On the day, Omotesenke, Urasenke, and Yuuraku were taking turns.

The tea ceremony is a comprehensive art that pursues the ultimate beauty of scenery, tools, manners, etc., and is said to have a spirit of "motivation" at the root of a unique philosophy.

Under the autumn sky, it was a time to get a glimpse into a part of the deep tea ceremony world.

At the Chuo Ward Folk Tenmonkan (Time Dome Akashi), the second panel exhibition "Ryusei Kishida and Ginza-Memories of Ginza born and raised-" planned and produced by the supporters of the museum began on October 4. This panel introduces Ginza's memories from the Meiji era serialized by painter Ryusei Kishida in the "Tokyo Nichi-Nichi Shimbun", along with self-painting and reference photographs. The exhibition period is closed on Monday until November 30, free of charge. Specifically, "news center of ward" (2014/10/1) HP Click here>>

Ryusei Kishida was born in Ginza in 1891 in 1891, and his father Ginka Kishida (1833-1905) served as a journalist and chief writer of the Tokyo Nichi-Nichi Shimbun. In 1875, he opened the pharmaceutical shop "Rakuzendo" in Ginza 2-chome, and manufactured and sold Japan's first liquid eye drop "Seikisui".

Liu students pursued original painting expressions, such as creating a "Reiko statue" modeled on his beloved daughter as a painter.

Standing up from the devastating of the Great Kanto Earthquake (September 1923) and aiming for the reconstruction of the Imperial City, the serialization of the "Tokyo Nisshin Shimbun" (evening edition) began in March 1927 (1927). "Has begun.

In this series, Liu wrote a brush in May of the same year, entitled "Shinkozaiku Ginza-dori". This exhibition introduces the first exhibition on the panel. Liu, born and raised in Ginza, depicts the nostalgic Ginza scene before the earthquake with sharp sensitivity of text and illustrations.

In the exhibition, the Ginza-dori house map of 1902 (1902) is posted, so you can see it in comparison with the panel text, and it is interesting to know the transition of Ginza and today's cityscape about 110 years ago.

Two years after this writing, Liu died in 1929 (1929) at the age of 38. @ Akira Makibuchi