{"id":677,"date":"2021-08-04T12:31:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T03:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/?p=677"},"modified":"2021-08-04T12:31:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T03:31:17","slug":"yukata-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/677\/","title":{"rendered":"Yukata experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>A \u201cYukata experience\u201d was held on July 19th. \u201cYukata\u201d is one of the traditional Japanese culture, it used to be worn when taking a bath, but now it is worn when participating in festival and other activities in summer.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span>Waseda Keifuku academy offers yukata for students to wear.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span>On the day, the students chose their favorite patterns of yukata and wear it with the help of the teacher.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span>The students are very happy to wear yukata for the first time. Some students even brought their own yukata to participate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20cfce153c6dcbd30dc35695758066ae-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/041c8e89b678b46731ac2144bc87c2e7-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span>Everyone wears a yukata and takes a picture.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/3d286c066077720590e492e614c9bbcc-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/588f5dc5c85286438783f2302a488dbe-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span>On this day, a samurai class was also held by a master of Japanese martial arts, &#8220;Mr. Yamashita,&#8221; who taught students how to pull out a katana by using a replica katana.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8ec6a9c9f17f674d2b5aa83ddff080e1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/9bdf40befda56aded47d3d00bffed831-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span>The students holding Katanas also felt like they had become samurais.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/5b398eeaa9d4e5cbd78497cfa5d68afd-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/da08479581968d2308da7b3df64abe22-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span>Also, Tanabata&#8217;s Tanzaku was written on this day.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/eba117ff5d58c6bf1f96e4940afb87de-e1628047850415-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span>Students wrote down their wishes and decorated them on the bamboo.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/80a5a94fad8b64c4f0af5fd919d272fc-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span>&#8220;Yukata&#8221; and &#8220;Katana&#8221; are Japanese cultures that are difficult to experience in daily life. Students are very happy with this activity. Hope students can have more opportunities to experience all kinds of Japanese culture in their life of study abroad.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201cYukata experience\u201d was held on July 19th. \u201cYukata\u201d is one of the traditional Japanese culture, it used to b [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfla.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}