“We are proud to OFFICIALLY announce our next huge market event!! SAVE THE DATE: Sunday 4/2 from 12-6pm!! Look forward to a beautiful sunny day to walk around to explore vendors and event content alike!! We have 31 vendors and counting, with more to come! @takoyakiballsaz will be serving food, and @cos.mxlibra10.pics will be hosting our COSPLAY KARAOKE side event!! There will also be a store-wide sale ALL DAY!!! See the slides for more info, and please message us with any questions. More news to come!!! “
Harunoosoji translates to “Spring cleaning” so enjoy this market in Tucson’s Springtime.
Join us on Saturday, April 1st, 2023 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm to celebrate our 10th Anniversary Festival at Yume Japanese Gardens.This public event will feature Taiko drumming performance, kamishibai (“paper play”) storytelling, origami demonstration, ikebana flower arrangements, Japanese crafts, and much more!Enjoy delicious octopus dumplings and many more Japanese treats: the Takoyaki Balls Food Truck will be on site!!! Snacks/drinks will also be available for purchase.Advanced ticket reservation is required. This is a limited admission event. Admission Tickets: Adults: $18 – Members: $10 – Children: $6 – Children under 5: Free
The event will be sponsored by the Arizona Commission on the Arts.##
About Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson:We are a Non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable and educational organization. 7 different styles of intimate Japanese courtyard Gardens are the living expression of an ancient Japanese heritage and make up 3/4 of an acre in central Tucson. We have a regularly revolving art gallery an indoor exhibit area which features artists from around the world and their art related to Japan. The Gardens also include several Japanese style buildings where we host tea ceremonies and other cultural programs for the Tucson community. To find out more about us, our history and purpose, please visit our about page here: https://www.yumegardens.org/about
Several haiku poets in Southern Arizona won at the 2023 Arizona Matsuri haiku contest including my UA professor husband Albrecht Classen (honorable mention, Adult category). Here’s his winning haiku on page 17:
“Desert sun placates
We shiver at night
despite Tourists’ assumptions”
Professor Albrecht Classen
In the Japanese Language category, Hitomi McKnight of Tucson Japanese Language School won Outstanding haiku (page 20):
満⽉の 夜に吠えわたる (よに ほえ わたる) コヨーテの唱 （うた）
“The night of the full moon
Coyote’s song
Howls and extends”
Hitomi McKnight
Also in Japanese Language, Ayumi Uchida won Honorable Mention for her haiku on page 21,
しろうさぎ いっぱいたべたい つきみだんご
“The white rabbit
Wants to eat its fill
Moon-viewing dumplings”
And SAJCC Council member & Volunteer Miki Pimienta once again won Honorable Mention for hers on page 22 (Japanese Language category):
ちらちらと 雪舞うサワロ 綿帽⼦
“Flickering Snow
dances on saguaro
Clumps of snow”
Miki Pimienta
All the winning haiku are listed in the 2023 E-Book below:
“Please join UA Center for Buddhist Studies on Monday, March 27 at 4 pm (Arizona Time) in the Copper Room at the Student Union for the next lecture of the Ōbaku Ingen/Lingyin Lecture Series! This is a hybrid in-person/online event.
The year 2022 marked the 350th death anniversary of Zen Master Yinyuan Longqi (隱元隆琦1592-1673, Ingen Ryūki in Japanese). Special ceremonies and events are being held in both Japan and China to honor this great Zen master. In North America, the Center for Buddhist Studies, College of Humanities at the University of Arizona is organizing a series of commemorative events which will run for one year beginning May 3, 2022. These events will present and explore the extraordinary life of Zen Master Yinyuan and the great achievements of the Huangbo 黃檗 Chan tradition (known as the Ōbaku school of Zen Buddhism in Japan) that Yinyuan pioneered in China and Japan. These events highlight the intersection between religion, art, and culture in China and Japan and will be presented in both online and offline formats. Activities will include an online exhibition of works of art related to the Ōbaku tradition, academic lectures, musical performances, and tea-related events. (Visit our Ōbaku Ingen website at: ingen.arizona.edu).
Talk title: Reflections on the Understanding, Appreciation and Authentication of Ōbaku Zen Calligraphy
Speaker: Dr. Harald Conrad, University of Düsseldorf
Abstract: As a researcher and collector of Japanese calligraphy, I will address in this talk, which is primarily aimed at a Western audience, first issues around the appreciation of Japanese calligraphy in general and then of Ōbaku Zen calligraphy in particular. In the arts of China and Japan, calligraphy has historically ranked highest among the arts. Due to the pictographic and expressive qualities of the Chinese script, its hand-written form captures not only literary meaning, but is believed to be a deep reflection of the writer’s mind. While critically examining this notion, I plan to address a number of questions: Is it possible for a Western audience to ‘understand’ Japanese calligraphy? What impact did Ōbaku Zen calligraphy have on the Japanese calligraphic tradition? Why is Ōbaku Zen calligraphy nowadays comparatively popular among Western collectors, but less so in Japan? What are pertinent questions of authenticity around Ōbaku Zen calligraphy?
Speaker Bio: Harald Conrad holds a Chair of Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. Prior appointments were at the School of Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield (England), the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Japan), and the German Institute for Japanese Studies (Japan). Harald’s research focuses primarily on Japanese human resource management, social policy, and the structure and practices of traditional markets. As an avid collector of Japanese calligraphy, he has also worked on the Japanese art market (“Managing (Un)certainty in the Japanese Antique Art Trade – How Economic and Social Factors Shape a Market,” Japan Forum, 28:2) and published a seal handbook on the Confucian scholar Kameda Bōsai (1752-1826) (Kameda Bōsai Inpushū). In the 2000s, he was the only foreign member of an antique studies group around the late Japanese collector Atsumi Kuniyasu and late art dealer Kobayashi Katsuhiro in Tokyo. Harald has contributed a number of Ōbaku pieces from his collection to the ongoing online exhibition about Ingen Ryūki at the University of Arizona’s Center for Buddhist Studies.
Sponsored by Wanfu Temple in Fuqing, Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, Pu Yin Education Center, and Matcha.com.” “
“For those who have already gone through the introductory course, we are re-convening for another gathering at Yume to continue to deepen our understanding, our observations, our sensibilities, and our growing haiku community.
We will go into more depth concerning the kigo words, a focus on one of the Japanese masters, and then spend time again in the garden for reflection and time together for sharing.
Please sign up for this walk ONLY if you have completed the Introductory Haiku Workshop(offered the same day at 1:30pm).
Led by award-winning haiku poet Yukihiro Ibuki and Yume Cultural Director, Paul Amiel. Date/Time:
“Haiku is the definition of brevity. Elegant due to its compactness of expression, its typically unrhymed versus only take up a few lines and a handful of syllables. As you can imagine, every single word counts. Revolving around seasonal topics and nature but often holding double meanings, these poems are a pleasure not only to read and understand, but also to try your hand at writing.
Our haiku writing walk is a time to observe, reflect on, and collect perceptions and images both of nature and life which are used in the appreciation and creation of haiku, the iconic Japanese short poem.
Led by award-winning haiku poet Yukihiro Ibuki and Yume Cultural Director, Paul Amiel, this one hour and half workshop will discuss the history, form, and aesthetics of haiku, followed by time in the Gardens to gather personal images and impressions (along with gentle Japanese music) which we will share afterwards in an informal time together.”
