1/27(日)New Year’s Celebration: Oshogatsu@Japan Society

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FAMILY FESTIVAL

Sunday, January 27, 1 – 4 PM

Celebrate the New Year Japanese-style with our Oshogatsu event filled with the traditional activities of rice pounding, calligraphy, lion dancing and more! After trying your hand at the different crafts and activities, grab a seat and watch a taiko drumming performance, then join the brief post-performance audience practice session. With activities for the whole family, you are sure to ring in the New Year with great joy!

Tickets: $18/$10 individual & corporate members; ages 2 & under free. Free for Cool Culture members. Price includes festival and one taiko drumming session.

Activities:

Taiko Drumming Taiko Drumming & Lion Dancing
1:30 & 2:30 PM

Enjoy a dynamic, vibrant taiko drumming performance by Taiko Masala with accompanying lion dancing. Following the show, audience members are invited to practice and perform on stage with the troupe of drummers. Before each performance in the theater, there will be a shishimai lion dance procession throughout all of Japan Society. A lucky bite on the noggin will give you luck throughout the whole year!

 

Ema Making Ema Making

Make your own ema with this year’s zodiac animal and inscribe your wishes for 2018! Ema, or votive wooden plaques, are offered at shrines in Japan to express one’s prayers or gratitude.

 

Calligraphy Calligraphy

Begin the New Year by learning to write Japanese words and phrases associated with the holiday. Children and parents of all ages will experience the time-honored classics of brush and sumi ink calligraphy art.

 

Rice Pounding Rice Pounding & Decorative Mochi-Making

Guests pound rice dough in a large mortar (usu) with a wooden mallet (kine) and enjoy this traditional cultural experience first-hand! Then, participants are invited to make decorative mochi called Kagami-mochi from the pounded dough. (Edible mochi, prepared by a local Japanese vendor will also be available for purchase.

 

Toys and Games New Year’s Toys & Games

Try your hand at top spinning (koma-mawashi) and other fun Japanese wooden folk toys such as Kendama and Daruma-otoshi. Play Fukuwarai, which roughly translates to “Lucky Laugh,” by assembling a face by placing paper cutouts of wacky facial features on a blank face while blindfolded. Observer and players alike get a rise out of this traditional children’s game.

 

Daruma Making Daruma Making

Create your own Daruma to take home—a wishing doll and talisman of good luck. As you color the first eye, make a wish. When the wish comes true, color in the other eye!

 

Kite Making Kite (Tako) Making

Design your own traditional Japanese kite! Assemble the frame from bamboo and decorate it with any number of festive designs to add a personal touch.

 

Kamishibai Kamishibai Storytelling

Enjoy this traditional form of Japanese storytelling as you listen to popular New Year’s folktales such as “Hats for the Jizos” and “How the Years Were Named”. Stories will be performed in English and Japanese.

 

Nengajo New Year’s Card Making

Create a New Year’s card (nenga-jo) to celebrate the year of the Boar and share your messages and drawings with friends and family. Learn how to write “Happy New Year” in Japanese and learn about the pervasive use of these greeting cards during the start of the year.