Sumie -- April 19, 2013

The theme today is bamboo.

After some practice for making gradation with sumi ink,
they drew vivid bamboo trees on a long paper and shikishi
hard paper. Aren't they lovely?

Sumie -- April 16, 2013

One of the elegant flowers bloom in spring is wisteria.

But Finnish people say they have never seen these

beautiful flowers. Looking at the image on the ipad,

they challenged to draw wisterias. They really did a

good job!

Cooking -- April 12, 2013

Japanese always keep in mind the use of seasonal ingredients

when cooking. Bamboo shoots, bonito, strawberries were used

today. Typical spring dish is bonito sashimi slightly broiled.

We also made salad with bamboo shoots, asparagus, beans, etc.

Everyone tried making gyoza and had a lot of fun.

Ikebana -- April 9, 2013

3 ladies joined today's ikebana arranging flowers in

a sidling style. Enkianthus (doudann tsutsuji) is used as
a main for making lines and iris as a sub for making
ponts. Making lines with enkianthus is hard as it is still young
and the branches are thin. But its tiny leaves reflects coming
fresh green season.

 

 

Sumie -- March 27, 2013

Theme today is of course "sakura".

After 2 hours concentration, 6 lovely works of sakura
shikishi are in full bloom.