Sapphira (5) and Alexia (2) dress up to show you how to “visit a shrine” for New Year prayers for Mochitsuki PDX. After watching the video, go to to try our...
Category - Traditional Demonstrations
The Henjyoji Shingon Buddhist Temple invites you to practice gratitude for 2020 and pray for wishes to come in 2021, virtually. After you send your wishes to the temple...
Cultural Demonstration, Traditional Demonstrations
Jan-1st | New Year’s Prayer - Nichiren Buddhist Temple
This is an abridged version of our New Year’s prayer for 2021, asking the Buddha, bodhisattvas, and all the gods to bless everyone with a safe, prosperous, and...
Crafts & Games, Cultural Demonstration, Family Activities, Learn, Traditional Demonstrations
Jan-3rd | New Year’s Card Making
This video presents a brief explanation of the community group Japanese Women Portland, followed by a demonstration of two different designs for making Japanese New...
This video by the Portland Go Club talks about the basics of the game of Go, a game created in China but which developed most rapidly in Japan. We tell the story of one...
Cultural Demonstration, Education, Learn, Traditional Demonstrations
Jan-7th | Ikebana Flower Arrangement
Nana Goto Bellerud presents Ikebana, a Japanese traditional art form that uses natural materials to express yourself. She demonstrates a simple ikebana that you can make...
Cultural Demonstration, Education, Learn, Traditional Demonstrations
Jan-8th | How to Celebrate New Year in Japan
The members of the Portland Kimono Club show examples of how New Years is celebrated in Japan with song, decorations, cleaning, cuisine, drink, shrine visit, greeting...
Cultural Demonstration, Food & Drinks, Learn, Traditional Demonstrations
Jan-15th | Tea Ceremony by Nikkei Fujinkai
Nikkei Fujinkai (Japanese Ladies Group) and Urasenke Portland Association share Sado – The Way of Tea and present a brief history and philosophy of the Tea Ceremony...
Tired of home cooking? Dreaming of delicious Japanese food like fancy Kaiseki in Japan? To cook rice without using a rice cooker is much easier than you think. Please...
An introduction to the annual snow festival which takes place each winter in Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido. Large excavators are use to move over 500 truckloads of...
Martial Art, Traditional Demonstrations
Jan-28th | An Introduction to Shindō Musō Ryū Jōdō: the Way of the Staff - Rose City Shindokai
An Introduction to Shindō Musō Ryū JōdōMembers of the Rose City Shindōkai practice jōdō, the way of the staff. Jōdō was created by Musō Gonnosuke Katsuyoushi about 400...
SORA provides a deep dive into the mindset and methods behind different styles of Japanese Shodo calligraphy. Shodo is introduced not only as an art form, but a path...