KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 (Bernama) -- Japan’s Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo (KPH), located in Shinjuku in Tokyo, will host the ‘Hina-matsuri through Tea Ceremony Culture and Hanging Art’ event, celebrating Japan’s cultural Girls’ Doll Festival or ‘Hina-matsuri’ from Feb 1 to March 28, 2019.
The hotel will display 6,800 handmade dolls and traditional art decorations and will serve special menu items commemorating the ‘Hina-matsuri’ at nine of its restaurants for the event’s duration, a statement said.
Hanging decorative art ornaments – hand stitched from cloth of old silk kimono garments by quilt artist Mitsuyo Matsuo and the 90 members of her Himawari Group of artists – and traditional wooden Mataro dolls from Kamikamo Shrine in Kyoto will be put on view.
In addition, KPH will exhibit various traditional and historical art items used in traditional Japanese tea ceremony, which has long been a part of the cultural upbringing of Japanese women from the Meiji period.
The ‘Tea Ceremony Culture Exhibition’, to be be held in cooperation with Honorary Professor Hiroichi Tsutsui of Kyoto University, will show tea cups, bamboo teaspoons, water vessels and other precious and beautiful instruments used in traditional tea ceremony.
-- BERNAMA
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