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Tokyo Afternoon Tea Tea Party Day 1, January 2025 with Miyoko Otomo.

Tokyo Afternoon Tea Tea Party Day 1

 

Tokyo Afternoon Tea Tea Party Day 1

 

Tokyo Afternoon Tea Tea Party Day 1

 

 

 

Tokyo Afternoon Tea Tea Party Day 1

The first day of our Afternoon Tea Gathering at the lounge of the Tokyo Royal Park Hotel has successfully concluded, thanks to everyone’s support.

First and foremost, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to our special guest, Miyoko Ōmomo, an executive coach. ✨

I have always resonated with her words: “Live for the present, not just for the future.”

True to her philosophy, she listened attentively to everyone’s stories and brightened up the atmosphere, for which I am truly grateful.

Our gathering began under the refreshing sunlight and progressed into the evening, bathed in the glow of a breathtaking sunset.

After enjoying a relaxed conversation at the hotel’s executive floor lounge, we moved to a quiet private room, where we prepared tea with the night view of Tokyo Tower in the background.

That small act of making tea transformed our time from a simple “chat session” into a deeper, heartfelt exchange.

In our daily lives, we are constantly occupied with work and household tasks. Amidst our busy thoughts, the opportunity to quietly prepare tea together in the heart of Tokyo with such wonderful people became, for me, a moment of mindfulness—a luxurious time to return to the present and regain inner peace.

I wonder if each participant also found it to be a valuable time?
I sincerely appreciate every single person who shared this wonderful moment with us.

May our connections continue for many years to come.

#TokyoAfternoonTea #TeaGathering #TableStyleTeaCeremony #TsubakiNoKai #KimonoOuting #Hospitality #JapaneseCulture #Mindfulness #Switzerland #EventReport

 

a student living in Tokyo won second place in a kimono contest!

After becoming a certified instructor, a student living in Tokyo won second place in a kimono contest!

 

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theory

 

 

 

 

 

毎日練習を添削指導しました。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Afternoon Tea Collaboration Tea Party @ Nihonbashi with Miyoko Omomo” Additional Schedule Announced

 

 

 

Announcement of “Afternoon Tea Collaboration Tea Party @Nihonbashi with Omomo Miyoko”

 

 

The 1st World Matcha Forum Income and Expenditure Report

I’m Sushi (Kinoshita) Yoko from the organizing team.
Thank you very much for your cooperation with the World Matcha Forum. Your kind support has enabled us to carry out reconstruction support activities for the Noto earthquake. Including those who donated after the event, the total number of donors is now 47. We would like to express our sincere gratitude.

Breakdown of income
• Japanese Yen (JPY)
o Via Peatrix: 87,423 yen
o Other: 20,000 yen

• Euro (EURO)
o Via Eventbrite: 29.20 euros (equivalent to 4,835 yen at a rate of 165.58)

• US Dollar (USD)
o 17.24 dollars (equivalent to 2,640 yen at a rate of 153.12)

• Swiss Franc (CHF)
o 336.70 francs (equivalent to 59,454 yen at a rate of 176.58)

• Total income: 174,352 yen

Exchange rate (as of October 28th)

 

 

Report from Peatrix

Transfer from Peatrix

Transfer from Everbrite

Breakdown of expenditures (donations)

• Donation to: Hokuriku Bank, Wajima Branch, Current Account 0003519 Wajima Lacquerware Industrial Cooperative Association
• Transfer amount: 174,352 yen
• Transfer fee: 220 yen
• Total amount transferred: 174,572 yen
For details on the transfer statement, please refer to the image below.

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Additional information on donations
In addition, transfer fees and prizes at the forum will be covered as donations by Blossom and Sushi Yoko.

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Final report
Thanks to everyone’s generosity, we have donated a total of 174,572 yen to the Wajima Lacquerware Industrial Cooperative Association
https://wajimanuri.or.jp/. We hope to continue to support the Noto earthquake recovery efforts.
If you have any questions or would like more information about this income and expenditure, please feel free to let us know.
For questions, please contact us via email at info(@)sushi-yoko.ch

The following is a message from Mr. Kirimoto

https://www.instagram.com/taiichi_kirimoto/  

This is a reply from Secretary General Sumi of the Wajima Lacquerware Commerce and Industry Cooperative Association https://wajimanuri.or.jp/.

Secretary General Sumi explained the current situation to Hiroyuki-san on YouTube from the Wajima Lacquerware Hall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyMrD3tnjgQ&t=1866s

Please send new donations directly here.

Once things have settled down, I would like to visit Wajima as well.

I look forward to meeting you both online and offline.
Please join the Facebook Group “World Matcha Forum” if you would like. You can access it here. We look forward to your continued support.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1598701154035687

Thank you so much!!!

Sushi Yoko https://www.instagram.com/sushi_yoko_com/
Blossom https://www.instagram.com/kimono.blossom.ch/

Thank you very much for supporting our first World Matcha Forum

Thank you very much for supporting our first World Matcha Forum on 19 October 2024. We couldn’t have done it without your participation!
We had 44 donors and 29 of you participated in the forum on the day.
As mentioned during the forum, Mr. Taichi Kirimoto, a Wajima lacquerware artisan and the CEO of Wajima Kirimoto shop, edited and proofed the Wajima lacquerware quiz while suffering from the second natural disaster and a subsequent personal illness. We would appreciate if you can check out his Instagram account:
https://www.instagram.com/taiichi_kirimoto/
On the way, we offered a moment of silence for the 360 people who lost their lives in the earthquake and 13 people who lost their lives in the floods, and then everyone made tea together.
Louise from Zurich placed first in the Wajima lacquerware quiz, congratulations! She will be collecting her prize directly from Yoko.
We will administer the charity funds in the coming days and provide an update.
Thank you again and hope to see you soon again.
Best regards,
Kimono Blossom and Sushi Yoko
World Matcha Forum
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1598701154035687






Matcha Workshop in Zurich

If you want to learn how to make matcha, do not hesitate to contact me. If you do 5 hours of course, you will receive a certificate as an advisor from https://tablestylesado.com/

Matcha Workshop

 

 

 

We held a rehearsal for the World Matcha Forum “Noto Earthquake Reconstruction Support Event”.

We will have a quiz on Wajima-nuri during the event. Please click here for the Instagram of Mr. Taiichi Kirimoto, who supervised the quiz. Please follow him.
https://www.instagram.com/taiichi_kirimoto/
Mr. Kirimoto’s house was completely destroyed by the earthquake on January 1, and his temporary housing and workshop were inundated above floor level by the flood in September.


 

 

We have edited this video to show the situation of Wajima lacquerware workers after the Noto Peninsula earthquake. Please refrain from viewing this video if you expect to be mentally damaged.
https://youtu.be/NyRd9GNNx48


Charity event on Saturday, October 19 at 22:00 JST
World Tea Party in English (World matcha forum) in support of Noto Earthquake Reconstruction
https://facebook.com/events/s/26014469798199164/

 

Tickets for the event
still available for purchase here.
https://peatix.com/event/4024859/tickets

 

If you live in the U.S., please click here.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/993958595917

Please purchase as soon as possible.
100% of the proceeds from the event will be remitted to the Wajima-nuri Lacquer Ware Industry Association, a cooperative of Wajima lacquerware.
We will disclose all the details of the bank transfer.
(All bank transfer details will be made public.)

Matcha workshop at the Zen temple, Plum Village in France

I came to one of the largest Zen temples in Europe to participate in a 7-day mindfulness retreat. The scale of the event was amazing, with 1,000 people from 20 countries gathering in the first week alone. During the event, I was blessed with the opportunity to give a Matcha workshop. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Sister Chai Trai Nghiem Akemi Uchida. 🙏

Trying Anko paste

 

With our teacher’s picture

 

Thank you for listening very seriously

 

I am incredibly pleased to provide people from around the world with mindfulness matcha.

 

 

A sister showed me her whisk

 

I showed my group mindfulness matcha, too.

 

We drove 1000 km from Zurich to the Plum Village in East France. It was worth it!

 

She is a monk’s apprentice and a former IT technician. Nice talking to her.

The first World Matcha Forum

We are proud of our Japanese culture with long and rich heritage through our parents and being born in Japan. Each day we spend our lives in Switzerland, we appreciate what we have inherited.
What if we are taking our heritage for granted and it is actually on the verge of extinction?
We would like to express our deepest condolences to the families of those who have lost their lives in the Noto Peninsula earthquake in January 2024, and our thoughts and prayers are with the individuals and communities who were affected by the natural disaster.
Disaster recovery around Wajima city has not progressed much.
We would like to dedicate our first World Matcha Forum to the Wajima lacquerware community.
All proceeds from the event will be donated to “Wajima Lacquerware Industry Association”, and we would like to encourage all who would like to support the recovery of the lacquerware association to participate in this event.
We will publish the details of donation after the event.
[Event] World Matcha Forum – Collection of Noto Earthquake recovery funds
[Language] English
[Location] Online (Zoom)
[Date & Time] Saturday, 19 October 2024 at 15:00 CET
[Tickets] https://world-matcha-forum.peatix.com/
Early discount is available until 31 July for JPY 2,500. There is a limited number. Once the discount tickets are sold out, the tickets will be available at JPY 3,000.
In addition, we would like to host such Matcha events annually and for at least 10 years.
This is a great opportunity for us to give back to the communities, meet new kimono friends and foster personal growth at the same time. We would like to make this an enjoyable annual event and looking forward to your participation.
Incidentally, the name “World Matcha Forum” takes after the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland 😄

[Agenda]
– Short introduction of the hosts
– Objectives of the event
– Why we are hosting the event
*Feeling guilty of playing ignorant, just like an SEP, “something we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s Somebody Else’s Problem. (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)” while earthquakes continue to erupt frequently in Japan
It is not unexpected for an earthquake to erupt, it can happen anywhere in Japan
*What is the current situation after the Noto earthquake?
*Very little progress on disaster recovery
*We’d like to collect recovery funds and donate to Wajima Lacquerware Industry Association
– Quiz “Matcha and Wajima lacquerware”
History of Wajima Lacquerware
– Short lecture on “how to serve flavorful matcha for guests”
– Moment of silence “Prayers to the deceased and hopes for the continuation of Wajima lacquerware activities”
– Fundraising and our upcoming activities
* How to donate (Japan and outside of Japan)
* Our plans to contribute to communities in the future
* Invitation to join our FB group　World Matcha Forum
– Closing remarks