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Japan Day 2022

August 1, 2022 by GRAadmin

August 14, 12:00 – 4:00 pm
Japantown Peace Plaza and Japan Center West Mall

Japan Day

Join us for Japan Day, a celebration of Japanese cultural arts, featuring free performances, activities, and demonstrations!

In the Japantown Peace Plaza, enjoy live performances in taiko drumming, karate, Japanese folk dance, Okinawan taiko & karate, and the Gintenkai National Project.

Next door, in the West Mall, you can get hands-on activities and demonstrations in origami paper folding, shodo Japanese brush calligraphy, and washi ningyo paper dolls.

Peace Plaza Performances

12:00PM – 12:30PM

GEN TAIKO AND ODORI SCHOOL
Japanese Traditional Drum and Dance performances

12:30PM – 12:45PM

GINTENKAI NATIONAL PROJECT
Japanese Traditional Drum – Chicago and San Francisco collaboration

12:45PM – 1:20PM

SAKURA REN
Japanese Dance Group

1:30PM – 2:00PM

PAGES
Electric shamisen, Taiko, and Saxophone performance

2:00PM – 2:35PM

SAKURA REN
Japanese Dance Group

2:35PM – 2:50PM

SHORINJI KEMPO
Japanese Martial Art

2:50PM – 3:15PM

“THE MEETING” FEATURING
FRANCIS WONG AND TATSU AOKI

Special music performance

3:15PM – 4:00PM

OSHIRO KARATE DOJO &
OKINAWA EISA SHIMA DAIKO

Japanese Karate group and Okinawan Taiko group

West Mall Demonstrations

12:00PM – 1:00PM

WASHI NINGYO
Japanese Paper Dolls

1:30PM – 2:30PM

ORIGAMI
Art of Japanese Paper folding

3:00PM – 4:00PM

SHODO
Japanese Calligraphy

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Japan Week logoJapan Week: June 23-30, 2019. A summer cultural festival featuring performances, workshops & demonstrations in San Francisco Japantown. Presented by GenRyu Arts in association with East and West Japan Center Mall. All events are FREE.

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