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    Introducing Origami, etc. to Foreigners, Kyoto

    2 September 2016 - Tradition/Culture
    Photo= Congress participants from abroad trying origami (Kyoto International Conference Center, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto)

    Photo= Congress participants from abroad trying origami (Kyoto International Conference Center, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto)

    On September 2, WAK JAPAN, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, which provides cultural experience services for foreigners, offered services to introduce Japanese "Origami," or paper folding art, "Furoshiki-zutsumi," or wrapping cloth techniques, and others at the Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) held in the Kyoto International Conference Center, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto.

    WAK JAPAN opened a booth at the request of the IAAP. Elaborate origami, like a sequence of multiple cranes attached to one another made from one sheet, and methods for wrapping wine bottles with wrapping cloths, as well as decorative straps, were presented. A participant from Germany tried origami and said, "Folding beautifully-patterned paper is fun." Michi Ogawa, president of WAK, said, "Cultural experiences of tea ceremony, origami and furoshiki are standard and are always a hit. These will leave a deeper impression of Kyoto on the participants' minds."

    (translated by Galileo, Inc.)
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