So it goes like this: Ohayo gozaimasu!
So it goes like this: sudo make me a tea
So it goes like this: Arigato gozaimasu!
Pics from the Japanese tea ceremony (chadō) from the "Tea&Coffee Festival" in Bucharest.
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Nice! Two comments: I don't see a single Japanese there, still I'm full of envy ;-) And second, you start with 'good morning' so it was in the morning then, I suppose?
ReplyDeletefirst, their teacher was an old Japanese woman and second, is the only "hello" I know in Japanese :D
ReplyDeleteThat sounds cool, I wish I could see her doing the ceremony. Btw. I just noticed it, but you correctly used ō in chadō, but it's the same for ohayō and arigatō >:-D
ReplyDeleteWas the tea good, or were you just a photographer?
More details for you :)
ReplyDelete- the teacher, the translator, and part of the students (the lady is living for maybe 20 years in Romania and she is married here);
- the demonstration was for a larger audience (and includes some bonsai and ikebana) so no tea for me :(
- for chadō I cheated and used Wikipedia, for the others my own memory :p
- at the end I (as the rest of the audience) received a book (in Romanian) "Japanese people about themselves", authored by the lady and her husband;
- actually I got there invited by yet another student (not one presenting), her (note: the paper says "free hugs" in romanian, the photo is, of course, mine).