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Japanese Tea
Ceremony

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JICA Alumni Association of
India (JAAI) organized a Workshop on Japanese Tea Ceremony
on November 29, 2009
at the Conference Hall of
Japan Foundation New Delhi.
A Japanese Cup of Tea is more
than implied by the name for the ceremony-
“Cha No Yu”. The
Japanese Tea Ceremony infact captures all the elements of
Japanese philosophy and artistic beauty and interweaves
four
principles - harmony (with people and nature), respect (for
others), purity (of heart and mind) and tranquility.
Chado
or Sado, the way of Tea (popularly known as Tea ceremony),
was developed by
Sen no Rikyu as a method of inner peace
through simple act of preparing tea.
During the
event
“Japanese Association Delhi’s Ladies Tea Ceremony Group”
demonstrated this beautiful Japanese art. One member from
every family had a chance to participate in ceremony and
learn about this Japanese cultural form.
JAAI is deeply
grateful to the members of “Japanese Ladies Tea
Ceremony Group” for the demonstration of this
centuries old Japanese Art especially
Ms. Yumiko
Matsumoto, Ms. Noriko Ikeda, Ms. Yuko Tamaru,
Ms. Makiko Ikazaki, Ms. Hiromi Kobayashi, Ms.
Reiko Miyamoto, Ms. Leilani Herman, Ms. Chiho
Izumi, Ms. Akemi Kato.
About 150 persons
including the JAAI members and their family
participated in the event. The Japanese guests
present at the event included Mrs. & Mr.
Uchiyama, Embassy of Japan, Mr. Yamanaka,
Chief
Representative, JICA India Office and Ms. Asakuma,
Senior Representative JICA India
Office. The programme was well appreciated by
participants as this was the first time that
JAAI organized workshop on Japanese Tea
Ceremony.
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