本学留学生が着物着付け体験会に参加しました International Students of SU Joined “Kimono Try-on Session”!

2017/1/18

(English below Japanese)
1月8日（日）、今年で７回目となるさいたま観光国際協会主催の着物着付け体験会に本学留学生5名が参加しました。

この体験会は振り袖や袴の着付け、髪結いなど本格的な和装と初詣体験ができることから毎年留学生に人気のあるイベントです。大宮・氷川の杜文化館にて、着物をまとった留学生は、茶道、風呂敷包み、初詣などの日本文化を体験しました。参加者の男子学生は袴を、女子学生は着物の着付けに合わせた日本らしい髪結いを髪飾りやかんざしなどで華やかに彩ってもらい、その美しさに感動していました。また、その時の様子が1月10日の埼玉新聞10面に掲載されました。

5 International students joined “Kimono Try-on Session” held on January 8th, 2017, hosted by Saitama Tourism and International Relations Bureau IEC (International Exchange Center).

This event is very popular from the fact that students can do full-scale Kimono experience with hairdressing, wearing a hakama.At Hikawa no Mori Bunkakan in Omiya, the students experienced tea ceremony, furoshiki wrapping and first visit of the year to Hikawa shrine (so-called ‘Hatsu-moude’) in their Kimono. The participants were not only female but also male students who wore Hakama. Female students were impressed with the Japanese traditional coiffure that matches Kimono and the beauty of hair ornaments.It was also posted on the 10th page of Saitama Newspaper on January 10th.