【体験】Japan traditional culture - Ikebana & Kimono

In Japan

There are a lot interesting culture to be experienced

In my field trip 

I experienced 

Ikebana & Kimono wearing

Ikebana means flower arranging

Kimono is Japanese traditional costume

Below is the preparing for flower arrangement

There are professional sensei came and taught us how to arrange the flower

well 

in Japan

you can be famous or professional as a artist

such as flower arrangement

But I still cannot understand the theory that taught by the sensei

e.g. height of the branch then height of the flower

etc...... 

This is what we made

you can see that the flower is sided to the left

The next experience is 

Kimono wearing

Kimono is very expensive in Japan

cost more than RM8000 or more

just for 1outer piece

normally kimono is 3 layers

and the waist part need to be tighten very tight

It takes lots of time to wear a kimono

if you don get used to it

Usually kimono is being worn in special occasion

such as 

Tea ceremony

where you need to sit on your foot for the whole ceremony

dam hard though!!!

【体験】小川和紙 Kogawa Japanese Paper

Field trip to Saitama

for making Kogawa Japanese Paper

well it is just to experience how to remake paper

We arrive a place call 

Ogawa-machi

小川町

Where a town  famous for Japanese Paper

和紙のふるさと

It is located 2 hours from Tokyo by train

(very far T^T)

There are lots of type of Japanese paper

such as

papers to make paper dolls

Hanging paper dolls etc....

Here our Japanese paper making starts!!!!!!!

The person in charge is explaining the process of making to us

In this process

we are making postcards

There are special mold

for making the postcards

first insert the mold into the special paper liquid

Then balance the liquid in every mold

Then the person in charge will help to press

away the excess water

and left the wet paper for us to design



Here is where we experience out Japanese postcard making



We are free to design anything

on the wet paper

This is my design

After finished design

just pass this thing to the person in charge

and they will help us baked the paper

to become the real postcard

that can be use

It will takes some time for the post card to be dry

So basically you cannot bring back your post card on that day

unless you have enough time to wait though

haha

well just a small postcard making experience for me

It is quite fun (^^,)

【埼玉】Honda Saitama Factory

Field trip to one of the famous

Japanese Car Factory

HONDA

 

Saitama Factory

Saitama is located above Tokyo

need 1-2hours

This is Honda stream series

There is also Honda Bike

but the bike in Japan 

are mostly 250cc bike or racing bike

There is also some exhibition 

of the team they support in the sports

Well

it is again confidential to take photo

of the factory inside

where the cars is being built

But what I can say is 

it is dam COOL!!!!

because

half of the output of the cars

is being built by 

ROBOTS!!!

Big robot hands that have the size of 3 floor building

(I perhaps)

It is dam huge!

and the speed of course is accurate and faster than human

I keep look at the robot assembly session!!

Not only Honda using this industrial robot

Suzuki, Toyota......

Most of the factory now

is using robot for assembly

very proud and thankful for this cool technology!!!