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Practioner of traditional Japanese
Arts & Customs

My personal choices and professional activities are informed by my upbringing as daughter of a samurai family and many years of practicing traditional arts and customs. I seek to integrate, in my own lifestyle, the traditional thoughts and skills of such practices as the tea ceremony and calligraphy with the demands of a modern lifestyle in the UK.

demonstrating the tea ceremony

This includes the application of gyugi saho (Japanese etiquette), wearing a kimono, practicing the tea ceremony and shodo calligraphy, and so on. I shall explain more, as I update and expand this web site.

A kimono talk and demonstrating for a luncheon club in Leicester

The hands of a calligrapher

Affiliations :

Includes Public Liability Insurance with membership
*Member of the Japanese Language Committee.
Professional Activities

Akemi may be contacted via the following e-mail address: akemi@solloway.demon.co.uk