matcha – Kimono & Tea Ceremony Club in Switzerland

Tea Ceremony in May 2025 at Osaka

🌸 Osaka Kimono Tea Party 🌸 “Let’s Make Kimono Friends Around the World!” ✨

👘 Do you love kimono or have an interest in wearing one? Come and spend a wonderful time together! 💖

📅 Monday, May 6th (Public Holiday)
📍 ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Osaka, Executive Floor Lounge, Kitashinchi

💖 Part 1: Sweets & Photo Time 📸🍰
⏰ 14:30 – 17:00
💰 5,500 yen (Early Bird 5,000 yen)
📸 Commemorative photo session at Dojimagawa and hotel lobby (from 14:30)
🍰 All-you-can-eat sweets buffet with 8 kinds of cakes, croissants, cupcakes & unlimited soft drinks!
🎀 Special Guest: Ayaaya-sensei (@ayaayaskimono), author of “Easy Obi Arrangements 1 & 2” – We’re so excited to meet her and discover where her incredible sense of style comes from! 🤩

🍵 Part 2: Table-Style Tea Ceremony Experience 🌙✨
🏯 Held in a private room with night views of Osaka
⏰ 17:15 – 19:00
💰 6,500 yen (Early Bird 6,000 yen)
👥 Limited to 7 participants
🍵 Enjoy a table-style tea ceremony experience while admiring the night view (from 17:15)
📸 Commemorative photos at the Executive Lounge (from 18:45)
🎀 Would you like to serve matcha tea during overseas trips, business trips, or to international guests?
With table-style tea ceremony, you need fewer tools and it’s perfect for cultural exchange!

Sushi Yoko (@sushi_yoko_com), with 18 years of experience running sushi classes and catering in Switzerland, will also share fun party conversation tips — what topics are popular and what to avoid!

🎟️ Special Discount:
✨ Join both Part 1 & Part 2 and get 1,000 yen OFF!
✨ Save even more with the Early Bird Discount: 2,000 yen OFF (10,000 yen total with advance payment).

👘 Kimono lovers welcome! 💖 Let’s have a fun and elegant time together!
💌 For inquiries and registration, please DM @sushi_yoko_kimono

#kimonolover #kimono #OsakaEvent #teaceremony #tablestyletea #JapaneseCulture #SweetsLover

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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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

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. 🙏

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

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

Tea ceremony event in Osaka

Tea ceremony at a table in 5-star hotel in Osaka

Tea ceremony at a table in a 5-star hotel in Osaka

I started holding monthly Kimono Lunches in Zurich in January 2015.

I wanted to do something exciting for everyone, even if it was just going out in a kimono.

At the last kimono lunch party in Osaka,
We had a tea ceremony in a private room on the hotel’s executive floor.

This time we held it in a suite room of a five-star hotel.
The European-style furnishings matched the kimonos very well.
And the theme this time was camellias. A camellia tea bowl.

The main pastry is “Tamatsubaki”, a famous pastry from my hometown of Himeji.
Golden tea bowls were brought from Switzerland. 💦.

And I wrote thank-you notes on Japanese paper.
I handed them out to everyone.

I hope to meet you again in May. Or I will show you online how to serve matcha.

E-mail : info(at)kimono-club.ch