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KULTURE
THE UNIVERSITY DAYY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY MARCH 28.2007
FESTIVAL OFFERS ARTS, MUSIC
BY LINDSEY PARKER
CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
The KU Japan Festival is Sunday and includes opportunities to expose yourself to traditional Japanese music and dances, as well as improving your choral skills.
Students can listen to traditional Japanese music, learn calligraphy, play Japanese games, improve those not so skillful chopstick hands and learn about Japanese art without even leaving Lawrence.
The fourth annual RU Japan festival will be held Sunday. The event is sponsored by the Japanese Students Association and will be held at the Kansas Union and Exteminal Christian Ministries.
The event consists of a show, workshops and dinner. The show and workshops are free and open to the public. The dinner that ends the night is sold out
The organization stresses cultural awareness of both Japanese and American cultures. Japanese students are paired with non-Japanese students as conversation partners and meet on a regular basis. This helps students studying Japanese with their language skills and helps Japanese students learn more about and fit into U.S. and KU culture.
Along with the annual festival, the organization participates in monthly events, including the annual Taste of Asia Festival, a barbecue at Hokomb Park and a Japanese Curry Party.
The organization started planning for this year's festival late last year, said Hitomi Nakamura, organization president and executive director of the festival.
schedule of events
Funds for the event are raised through ticket sales, fundraisers
Sunday April 1
3 p.m. — Show in Woodruff
Auditorium, fifth floor,
Kansas Union
5:30 p.m. — Workshops in
the Big 12 Room, fifth floor,
Kansas Union
7 p.m. — Dinner at Ecumeni-
cal Christian Ministries
This year was the first year we had a fundraising party," Nakamura said. "We also ask companies in Kansas city to be sponsors."
and sponsors.
The first KU Japan Festival was held in 2001. The idea for the festival came from "Japan Night", held at the University of Nebraska, which featured Japanese skits and dinner.
The festival will kick off with a show at 3 p.m. at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The show consists of traditional Japanese music, a Rakugo comedic performance, Japanese folk songs, Yosakoi, a mixture of traditional and modern dance, a Taiko drum performance and a skit of The Tale of Kimuraya's An-Pan. Door prizes and presentations will also be given.
After the show, workshops will be open from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Big 12 Room. There will be 12 different workshops, each expressing a different aspect of Japanese life. Workshops include Sumie, Shodo, chopsticks, music, handicraft display, Fuwarai, Kamisuki, Pivi, Sucia, origami, laiko and an information booth.
The third part of the event will be a dinner held at ECM. Dinner will be cooked by members of the organization. The meal will be Chirashi zushi, a colorful sushi garnished with shrimp and other seafood; Tempaura, deep fried seafood and vegetables; Kiriboshi Daikon, sundried radish with soy sauce and seasoning; Koya Dofu, freeze dried tofu; Dashimake Tamagoo, Japanese rolled omelet, and tea.
Dinner tickets were modeled after Japanese Sucia cards, a big part of Japanese lifestyle. The cards have a number of capabilities.
"The design is very popular in Japan. The biggest railroad uses it as a commuter pass," said Tatsuo Kasuya, organization adviser and festival ticket coordinator. Kasuya designed the tickets to not only resemble actual Sucia cards, but also to have functional bar codes.
"The actual Sucia card has a wireless chip that can be read in less than a second." Kasuya said. "The dinner tickets are equipped with a bar code that will be read by a machine that allows participants to have a virtual Sucia experience. One in every 10 tickets will have a winning bar code good for a full refund.
More information about the
Japan Festival can be obtained
online at www.ka.edu/~ja5fjr or by
e-mailing questions to jsa6ku.edu.
Edited by Ryan Schneider
cooking corner
Most Japanese recipes require specific Asian ingre dients, but here is one that anyone can make.
Dashimaki Tamago (Japanese Rolled Omelet)
1 tea spoon potato starch
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon sugar
3/4 cup "dashi" soup
(150ml)
Salad oil
Ingredients:
5 eggs
helpful Japanese workshop terms
Preparation:
1. Prepare soup stock.
2. Lightly beat five eggs in a bowl.
3. Add potato starch, sugar, soy sauce to dashi soup, mix well and blend into beaten eggs. Strain into a sieve.
4. Heat a little oil in a frying pan using a swab of paper towel (the pan is ready when a test drop of egg
when a test drop of egg sizzles).
Sumie black ink painting
Shodo — calligraphy
5. Pour 1/2 of egg mixture tilting and rotating the pan so that the egg spreads across the pan's bottom in
Fukuwairai — traditional Japanese game that resembles "Pin the Tail on the Donkey"
Kamisuki — a method of making washi, a traditional Japanese paper made from gani tree
fibers
*Pivi* — cell phone printer
*Sucia* — card used for a number of different purposes, including railroad pass in Japan
*Origami* — decorative paper folding
*Taiko* — Japanese drum
6. As soon as the surface of mixture starts to gel, roll
up fusing chipsticks or a spatual from front to side
7. Slide roll to the other end.
- Recipe courtesy of the Japanese Students Association
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