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Photo Credit:The Japanese Garden in Hammersmith, London
Japanese Events in London: 25th - 31st May 2009
There are plenty of Japanese events happening in London this week, from the 25th - 31st May 2009. This coming weekend, at the Hammersmith Park Japanese Garden, volunteers are required to work on the Heiwa-en created for the Japan British Exhibition in 1910. Plans are now in place to restore the garden to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the exhibition. This general tidying session signifies the start of the second phase of this project. Of interest, gardeners from Japan will be on site to oversee the work. Volunteers should bring their own boots and gardening gloves, also, if you have any small gardening tools that would also be helpful if you could bring them.
As proud promoters of Japanese culture in London, we actively encourage you to attend since there will be a bon-odori festival event and traditional kamishibai storytelling and other family oriented Japanese activities. Japanese food including sushi, yakisoba and tako-yaki will be on sale.
Alternatively (though too late for hanami) bring your own food and drink and enjoy a picnic on the grassy space outside the garden, surrounded by established cherry trees and those newly planted as part of this project.
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For businessmen interested in Japanese events in London, JETRO have an event this Wednesday, 27th May 2009. David Cairns, Head of Trade and Investment at the British Embassy in Tokyo, will describe current business and investment conditions in Japan.
Mr Cairns will be in a good position to update our readers and students with investments in Japan and will be available to conduct one to one discussions with those who have specific questions or concerns. Of interest, Mr Cairns is responsible for the promotion of Japanese investment into the UK and for British business interest in Japan.
To reserve your place, please call the Japan Society office on 020 7828 6330 or email events@japansociety.org.uk
The final event we would like to bring to your attention is a lecture titled: "Lost and Revived: 19th Century Japanese Culture and the Kanda Festival."
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In this lecture, leading expert on 19th-century Professor Naoyuki Kinoshita of the University of Tokyo will explore the context of some of the lost aspects of Japanese traditional culture, taking as an example the unique Kanda Myojin Festival in Tokyo and its “living history”.
This lecture will be held at the Japan Foundation, this Sunday, Woburn Place, London.
In addition to looking at the festival's links to the modern day, this special lecture by Professor Kinoshita will give the opportunity to reflect that seemingly outdated culture can still be relevant to our lives.