Yaponomania 2013 (13.09.-15.09.)

Photoreport of one amazing event

 Bishin Jumonji-sensei held few lectures during the festival. I was honored to invite people to his exhibition and make excursions.

I was making an excursion for visitors.

My nice team. With Jumonji-sensei,Saito-san and our kind assistant.

 With an interpreter Olya.

Nice lady Saito-san from photo-exhibition stand game this bento, because my ticket for free food was lost by organization crew and I had nothing to eat. Jumonji-Sensei gave me a peach and chocolate candies. It was very thoughtful of them. On the photo you can also seeYuko Okamoto's notes for the performance.

Older and younger generations of different nations met at the friendly atmosphere in the Kyiv Expo Plaza for sharing their countries' heritage.

Japanese Ambassador and his wife visited the first day of the exhibition.

With Japanese Ambassador's Assistant and Ambassador's Chief, who made really tasty okonomiyaki 

International team - Korean boy and Ukrainian girl.

Designing keitai.

Ambassador visited Nakaya and Platinum companies' stand. His wife liked one of the pens from representing items.

 I liked this blue one pen with carving.

I had a chance to try pen which cost more than 1000$ 

Master did a great job sharpening the tip of the pen to the peculiarities of each visitor.

My dear bosu-san Nakata Toshiya :) 

 Great guys Abo-san and Inouyo-san who always made my day. I spent two days helping them and being an interpreter some times. Some people think that Japanese people are short. So I can prove they're wrong: I'm 181,5 cm tall and guys are the same height.

 Next 3 photos were taken by  the amazing master from Nakaya Fountain Pen Ltd. Yoshida-san.

 Little Ukrainian geisha and samurai.

Origami-made samurai.

Origami master-classes.

Japanese dancer Tisato Ishikawa performing contemporary dance.

Even some of the volunteers took part in martial arts master-classes (including me:) ).

 

Ukrainian J-pop.

My friend Miyuki Tsu and Naoko-sensei were showing different kinds if furoshiki.

Nice bottle wrap with a flower on the top. And my creature  Scarf was too long, but anyway looks good.

 With my beautiful and talented friend Yuko Okamoto.

She came with her Yuko Okamoto Jazz Quartet. I was so glad to see Joonsam Lee and Harutaka Sakita again in  Kyiv.

Yuki Okamota -piano,

Joonsam Lee - contrabass,

Harutaka Sakita - drums,

Hironori Ura - sax.

We held "Goodbye" party for them and were making onigiri, talking Japanese, Korean, English and Hironori performed his skills in Russian. He even spell  his name in Cyrillic letters.

 Lecture: "History of kimono".

Beautiful girls who helped us during the festival.

Oshibana master-class.

 Master-class "How to make room for tea ceremony". Look at those high heels!!!

Sensei is teaching kids when to say "hey" during the show. He's drumming 4 times and on the last "boom" they should shout "hey". The kids were really excited.

 Hitoshi Nakamura-san  from KPI Ukraine-Japan Center aka samurai or Ukrainian kozak.

Traditional dance Bon Odori. Sakuma Shuichi is playing drums.

 One interesting lady Anna Potri makes reproduction of Japanese engravings. Some of them are pretty extravagant.

Kanzashi master-class.

With head of Sun Way Tour company Toms.

Bonsai

Carving on vegetables.