Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

This is a rosemary sea, which covers "gifts and enjoy yourself" as a monument.

This is an interview with Yuko Takagi, a cogin sashimi writer and lecturer, at Ningyocho Classroom Co., Ltd., following the last time.

　

⑥　About classroom enrollment

"The enrollment fee is 5,000 yen, the monthly fee is 6,000 yen (both excluding consumption tax), and it is a course twice a month, every two hours. You are free to visit. Experience courses are also available at any time. The hands-on course is 2,500 yen (excluding consumption tax) with scissors, measuring instruments, and bringing writing utensils. "

"In the classroom, up to 3 works will be made in orthodox basic forms. When it's done, the work is free. From the fourth work, you can make what you want to make. You can make various original kogin sashimi goods such as tapestry, bag, table center, etc. ・・ ・ ・ You may be surprised by the ideas and sense of color of young people. I myself can learn no matter how old I am. In fact, while keeping tradition, I also create pictorial things like the fifty-three Tokaido."

　

⑦　About NHK Cultural Center International Exchange Festival

"It's been 30 times this year, but we're all participating. There are many European countries. Last year is Budapest, Hungary, and this year is scheduled for Antwerp, Belgium in November."

"When I go abroad, I don't take most of my works home. Since this is sold at exhibitions in Japan, my work is not so much on my hand. If the number of students is increasing in this way, I don't have much time to stabb yourself. "

　

⑧　About meeting with Mr. Rokusuke Ei

"The encounter with Rokusuke Ei, who died on July 7, is NHK's live broadcast variety program "Let's dream!" I wasn't the performer at that time. My brother happened to come out, so "Do you not come?" I was invited to observe the filming. There, Mr. Naga or composer Hachidai Nakamura came and got to know him. Mr. Naga often went to rural areas, so he knew about kogin sashimi. It's been about 50 years ago.

"As I said, I don't have much work on my own, so at my exhibition for nearly 10 years, I was borrowing and exhibiting my work owned by Mr. Ei. This is the Rokusuke Ei Collection (the two photos below). This is from Takashimaya Nihonbashi (creative kogin sashimi exhibition) two years ago. This photo is a photo sent by Mr. Naga before his death (upper photo). This is also my work. In a video of a certain TV station in memory of Mr. Naga, I put it on my knee without wearing this half coat. "

　

←"This is a pattern made for Mr. Naga's half-wearing."

　

⑨　About the next exhibition at Takashimaya Nihonbashi

"From Wednesday, October 19 to 25 (Tuesday), we are planning to hold a "Women's Handicraft Kogin Sashi Exhibition" at Takashimaya Nihonbashi. Please come and visit us."

　

⑩　About gift

"As is the case at exhibitions, we also sell works in this classroom. There are some people who sometimes come here. As a souvenir when people from rural areas return to the countryside. It's affordable and comes out of small items like bags or small wallets. With the wallet in front, it costs around 4,000 yen (pictured below). "

2-4-9 Nihonbashi Ningyocho Futaba Building 5F

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　The Sumida River Fireworks Festival is widely known by the common people as an event that inherits the traditional Ryogoku River Fireworks Festival.

The Sumida River Fireworks Festival, which celebrates its 39th anniversary this year, was held on July 31.

The first venue is lower Sakurabashi-Upstream Kototoi Bridge (starter: Marutamaya Kokatsu Fireworks Store Co., Ltd.), and the second venue is Komagata Bridge-Upstream Umaya Bridge (starter: Hosoya Enterprise Co., Ltd.)

At the first venue, a total of 10 fireworks contests will be held by a total of 10 companies, including 7 companies related to Ryogoku Fireworks and 3 companies with excellent results in Japan's leading fireworks festival.

Blessed with the weather, the launch of a total of about 20,000 fireworks started in the evening with loud noises.

This year, fireworks expressed in five colors will also appear in connection with the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and Paralympics just before the opening.

From 2012, it has become a new attraction to enjoy fireworks along with the appearance of the Sky Tree, but Sumida River Ohashi is one of the viewpoints that both can enjoy while looking away from Kiyosu Bridge.

Every time the fireworks are launched, a loud cheer is heard from visitors in yukata.

　

 

 

　Chuo-ku Ward Residents' Department Commerce and Tourism Division has held five “Foreign Traveler Hospitality Customer Service Courses” since July 6th.

Participated in the first "Inbound latest situation and understanding of different cultures", the second "English that can be used immediately-basic-" and the fourth English "English that can be used immediately-step-up-" Was.　General companies and individuals cost 5,000 yen, but companies and shops that are members of the Chuo-ku Tourism Association are half price 2,500 yen.

The first "Inbound Latest Situation and Intercultural Understanding" is, as the title suggests, in addition to the latest situation and cross-cultural understanding of tourists coming from foreign countries, such as Chinese visiting by bombings, to understand customers coming from overseas. It is to try. "Eliminate preconceptions and beliefs for foreigners," "hospitality," and "customer service." "Customer service" requires aggressive sales that goes one step ahead, "know and accept different cultures", foreign customs (taboo), and rounding the thumb and index finger that express money in Japan Is completely different from country to country. And there is no so-called foreigner or Chinese. It means that each individual has a difference in temperament and diversity.

　In the second English, “Everyone that can be used immediately-basic”, “hospitality”, “basic English”, and “knowledge / different culture” are “hospitality”, “basic English” and “knowledge / different culture”.

・You will be happy and have fun with your usual hospitality

・Actively speak and deepen mutual exchange in basic English.

After learning that, in English role-playing, we talked in English about the basics of customer service English with the M Department Store Ginza store.

　In the fourth English, "Everyone that can be used immediately-step-up-", I learned English that would be useful by sharing roles with the sales staff of a Japanese paper shop with a history of more than 300 years. .

In "Easy-to-use English-Step-up-", I learned phrases such as "I recommend shopping in Nihonbashi" and "I recommend shopping in Ginza" and improved my skills.

　Before learning English, I learned from the instructor, "Basic customer service should be like this!"

It's a beautiful gesture, a flowing behavior and a way of serving customers. The response is wonderful or beautiful. I had a very good feeling.

Such a wonderful lecturer also taught us how to respond to customers who have little common sense.　An example is "the scene of changing baby diapers in the store."

Don't lose your beautiful smile, with your eyes (mejikara) and <Please!＞And the gesture that leads to the toilet

The participants' sympathy and laughter were given to the way to preach with a strong will from the elegant and soft waist.

In that sense, it was a "foreign tourist hospitality course" that I learned a lot.　Also, I'd like to go to study.

　Added: When I headed to Chuo-ku government office by Edo bus, I saw a little older landlady than me going to the customer service course.　It's a business opportunity to entertain foreigners who came here, so I felt the enthusiasm that it was only about customer service English.　

 

 

This is rosemary sea, which covers "gifts and enjoy yourself" as an essence.

Today, we visited the Ningyocho Classroom of Kogin Sashi Thursday Association Co., Ltd., and talked to Mr. Hiroko Takagi, the director of Kogin Sashishi writer and lecturer.

First, the explanation of Koginzashi.

↑　Dr. Takagi. In the back, there is a piece of work.

Traditional techniques, folk art embroidery, and traditional crafts were born in the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture, with unique geometric patterns made with white cotton threads on indigo (navy blue) fabric. The difference from other sashiko is to stabb odd eyes on the vertical weave.

In 1724 (Kyoho 9), the "Farmhouse Frugality Ordinance" strictly regulates farmers' work clothes. The prohibition of cotton kimono, even in the cold region of the northern country, hemp kimono was allowed. You can't lining it.

So the girl in Tsugaru thought.

Fine embroidery is applied to the shoulders, back, and arms of the hemp kimono. The idea of reversal is to thicken the fabric, enhance the heat retention effect, make it durable, and evolve it even more aesthetically.

This is the root of kogin sashimi.

In the Tsugaru region, the stray clothes were called Kogin (both small cloth and small width), so this name was given.

In addition to preserving the tradition, modern creative kogin sashimi arranged with new designs and colorful dyed yarns are also popular. I'm good at this classroom.

This is an interview with Dr. Takagi.

　

①　About meeting with kogin sashimi

"There was a small sting in a hotel where I happened to go to Lake Towada with my friend and stayed there. Seeing it, she asked her, "What is this?" When I heard that it was stabbing, "Well, where are you doing this?" When I heard that, I was told that no one was doing it right now in Aomori. I was told that if I was collecting it, I was in Aomori City, and I was introduced to that person, but that person was an ethnologist Chusaburo Tanaka. I've already died. When I jumped into that person and talked about the stabbing, he said, "Oh, Tokyo's Hitogane, do you try it?" And I got a small piece, and that's the beginning."

　

②　The story when I became a lecturer at NHK Cultural Center

"I have an acquaintance at NHK, and I asked him," Why don't you try it? " I was told. And I was bored with Saturday Sunday on a two-day weekly holiday, and I was free to say that I should do that."

　

③　About Yumikai (Yumikai International Art Exhibition)

"I met the chairman. So I'm going to participate when I quit my job at a general company at retirement age, and now I'm the vice president. "

　

④　About Ningyocho Classroom

"It's been four years ago. Until then, I had a classroom at my home in Ningyocho. I got acquainted with the building owner, "Tofu no Futaba-san." There are also 10 other classrooms in the Kanto region, Kobe, Nagoya and Shizuoka. "

　

⑤　About your own work

↑　53rd Nihonbashi, Tokaido

"I'm now doing it when I get an order. With such a hanten, it takes one year to calculate everything from the design to the thread dyeing until then. Each classroom also goes around, so I don't have much time to stabb yourself. There's also a lot of work. Actually, I'd like to have the Tokaido fifty-three order main. I'm doing it from a place where it's easy to do as a design. ・・ ・From orthodox ones to pictorial ones like the fifty-three, the works are wide."

・・・ I will carry it over to the next time.

2-4-9 Nihonbashi Ningyocho Futaba Building 5F

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