Japan House Annual Open House

10:00am - 4:00pm, Saturday, November 7, 2009

Bookmark & Share
E-mail

Send to: Your Name:
Print

Related Media

Traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony at the Japan House's open house. Photo by Rebekah Nelson.

Venue: Japan House

Address: 2000 S. Lincoln Ave. , Urbana

Cost: Free

Entry Age: all

Posted 11:56 am Oct 30
Updated 11:56 am Oct 30

The featured presentation at this year’s fall open house will be a demonstration by Hajime Sugawara and Masahiro Imafuji titled "Kendo: The Way of the Sword," at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Practitioners of Kendo, a highly stylized, traditional Japanese martial art, typically use bamboo swords.

Sugawara is sixth Dan (sixth-degree black belt) and Imafuji, fifth Dan, in the Central Indiana Kendo Club.

From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., tea ceremony demonstrations will be conducted by members of the Urbana-Champaign Association of Chado Urasenke Tankokai.

Visitors also may tour the Japan House gardens at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The tours will be led by James Bier, who designed the gardens.

For those who would like an even more authentic experience, Bier and Japan House director Kimiko Gunji will host a tour to Japan April 5-16 that will include visits to several notable gardens in Kyoto, Okayama and Tokyo.

The deadline for signing up for the tour is Dec. 1. For more information about the tour, contact Japan House at 217-244-9934 or japanhouse@illinois.edu.