| JAPANESE CUSTOMS Traditional Japanese dance and tea ceremony at Mrs Orr-Ewing's finishing school in Sevenoaks, Kent. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6027 |
| Catalog #: | 36242 | |
| Clip Number: | 36242-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 285 | |
| Timecode: | 01:05:52 - 01:08:32 | |
| Location: | Sevenoaks, Kent. | |
| Year Shot: | 1960 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | BEVERAGES: Tea CEREMONIES: Historic / Traditional CULTURAL GROUPS: Japanese Americans ENTERTAINMENT/DANCE: Ethnic / Cultural FASHION: Ethnic / Cultural LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Kent | |
| Description: | JAPANESE CUSTOMS Traditional Japanese dance and tea ceremony at Mrs Orr-Ewing's finishing school in Sevenoaks, Kent. M/Ss and C/Us of a young woman, Kasuko Ohki, in traditional Japanese costume of kimono, performing a Japanese dance with two paper fans at the finishing school she attends in Sevenoaks, Kent. Other pupils are sitting watching in rather formal clothes as she dances on a bamboo mat floor with a Japanese screen behind. M/S of Kasuko and another girl in Japanese costume, Kawther Hamdi from Bagdad / Baghdad, kneeling on mats on the floor as Mrs Orr-Ewing, who runs the school enters, also in traditional costume; commentator tells us she "spent seven years in Japan, and is able to demonstrate to Miss Ohki and her other pupils, the 700 year old traditional tea ceremony" or 'Cha-No-Yu' as it's called. As she kneels down, the two girls bow to her, then M/Ss and C/Us as Mrs O-E folds a red cloth and cleans the tea-scoop slowly and deliberately and spoons the tea into a small bowl. Then she takes some water from a large jug with a ladle, puts it into a brass pot, then takes water from the pot and puts that into the bowl. High angle M/S as she picks up a small bamboo whisk; C/U as she whisks the liquid. M/S as she takes the finished tea in the bowl and places it with great ceremony before Kasuko; they bow to each other. Kasuko drinks from the bowl. C/U of some Japanese biscuits on a plate; they look like small cakes of soap in lavender, green and lemon colours; a hand comes into shot and breaks one of them in half; C/U of Kawther eating it. M/S of the spectators watching; M/S of the three women bowing as the audience give them a round of applause. | |
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