Fuigo festival

Fuigo(bellows) Matsuri at local small shrine near Kanayama station (http://www.kanayama-go.com/know/jinjya04.html). The Kanayama shrine founder was black smith. And also they worship for the god of metal. The metal related business people attended this festival. 金山神社のふいご祭り、金属関連の人々が参拝します。

Tsurumai tea house 2

There were 2 tea houses Kakukau tei and Hyakka an in Tsurumai park. We
had a tea ceremony in Kakukaku tei that bigger one. Hyakka an is smaller
and looks very historical old house. I like it better. Unfortunalty it
wasn't allowed to get in. The garden and trees are also great looking.

小さいほうの茶室の百華庵は趣がありますよ。

Tsurumai tea house 1

Last week end 5-6,Nov the public tea ceremony were held at the tea house in Tsurumai park (http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~urban/). I went to there at last Saturday and Kikuzato high school students served the teas.

Aichi skill plaza 2011

Aichi skill plaza 2011 during 5-6,Nov( http://www.ginou.or.jp/) Great meeting
and demonstrations of many kind of craftmen that were held in Fukiage hall.
They displayed their works in the each boothes and explained details. I
saw a very interesting demonstration that the metal worker made Origami
bird with a copper plate. It was funny and amazing.

土曜日にあいち技能プラザ２０１１を見に行って来ました。銅版で折り紙を折る職人がいました。

Okazaki castle 2

3,Nov. The public tea ceremony was held in the Okazaki castle garden. (http://okazakipark.com/museum/e-ryujyou/kae171.htm).
Fortunatly a lot of people came to our ceremony. Our master told me total
821 tickets were sold. The ceremony finished at 3 o'clock but our jobs
were not finished yet. We packed all utencils and removed tables and cleaned
up a garden. We needed 2 hours to finish all. It was really hard day.

本当にたくさんのお客さんに来ていただけました。821枚チケットが売れたそうです。

Okazaki castle 1

3,Nov the public holiday in Japan and the public tea ceremony was held
in the Okazaki castle garden. (http://okazakipark.com/museum/e-ryujyou/kae171.htm).
We arrived there at 7 o'clock morning and started setting up the place.
9 o'clock the gate opened. So many people came in the morning. The kitchen
was terribly busy. We students had one more important job. Making a tea
in front of people. It is a kind of demonstration and of course not easy.
I did it too. In the fact,I did 7 times in this day.

11月3日に岡崎城で市民茶会が開催されました。朝の7時に集合して会場作りをしました。これが僕の茶席デビューだったのですが、この日合計で7服、60人くらいのお客さんを前にしてお茶をたてました。