Translating for the Lacquer Ware Workshop
November 1, 2009:
The International Festival 2009 was held with the theme of "Friends, Interaction, and Completing the Circle - 360° of Friends." Among the various events of the Festival, there was a Choshitsu Lacquer Ware Workshop held inside of I-PAL Kagawa. Hiroaki Matsubara-sensei instructed us in how to carve images of flowers, birds, plants, and trees into our pieces of wood covered in multiple layers of colored lacquer. While art is something that often requires expert skill, and translating Matsubara-sensei's instructions for the participants was difficult, we were all able to better understand the finer points of Choshitsu Lacquer Ware and have a good time, too.
