Do you know much about the Japanese tea ceremony? In this presentation, I will tell you about the origin and history of tea ceremony. Actually, tea ceremony divides into three types, such as Omotesenke, Urasenke, and Mushanokoji-senke. I will focus on and introduce the origin of Urasenke and its first tea room: Konnichi-an. This famous and historical tea ceremony room was built by Sen Sotan and this tea room has unique design. I will discuss the architecture and the unique interior design for tea ceremony customs. Konnichi-an spread common cultural tea ceremony practices throughout Japan. Today, many customs originate from Konnichi-an. My presentation will talk about the history and customs of Konnichi-an. I hope you will enjoy.
Last week, we took a trip to the Southwest for 7 days. This trip was an absolutely wonderful memory. I had never been to these areas so I was stimulated by every things, for example, cactus, adobe style buildings, Native American culture and amazing dessert views. It is one of the most interesting trips I ever took, because I experienced some rare things like visiting Grand Canyon, visiting high school and so on. On this trip I could understand about Indian culture from a folk art museum. I would like to introduce some my best memories on this Southwest trip. My first best memory is Georgia O’Keef museum. Actually, before this trip, I was not familiar with her and didn’t know about any of her artworks, but I was looking forward to visiting here because I like art museums. Her artworks were very unique, abstract and absolutely fabulous, and these were very fresh to me. I especially liked bone’s paintings which one of the most famous her artwork, because the color contrast is very c...