SEPTEMBER CELEBRATES UKIYO-E Woodblock Print Making Event and Miss Hokusai Screening 浮世絵制作イベントと映画「百日紅」
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SEPTEMBER CELEBRATES UKIYO-E Woodblock Print Making Event and Miss Hokusai Screening 浮世絵制作イベントと映画「百日紅」 September 2016 2016年9月 Vol.42 Issue 8 1 5% discount for JCCC members DAVID IKEDA Sales Representative 416-234-2424 www.ikedasells.com Sutton Group Old Mill Realty Inc., Brokerage 2 2015 -16 JCCC Board of Directors In This Issue... President Gary Kawaguchi Past President/Advisor Marty Kobayashi VP, Heritage Jan Nobuto 4-8 JCCC Upcoming Events VP, Management Ann Ashley Secretary Sharon Marubashi Finance Chair Chris Hope 11-12 Heritage News VP, NJCC Miki Rushton VP, Marketing/Strategic Planning Karen Kuwahara Directors Jonathan Carter 13-15 Community News Mark Hashimoto Kristin Kobayashi 16 Donations Keiichi Kubo Dereck Oikawa Chris Reid 21-26 Cary Rothbart Ross Saito Nao Seko Peter Wakayama Bob Yamashita Tak Yoshida Calendar of Events Advisors Mackenzie Clugston (Ambassador of Canada to Japan) September William Hatanaka Sid Ikeda Steve Oikawa Mon 5 JCCC Closed – Labour Day Connie Sugiyama Sat 10 JCCC Karaoke Club JCCC Foundation Chair Shari Hosaki Sat 10 Kimono Discovery in Canada JCCC Staff Thurs 15 Movie Night – Miss Hokusai James Heron Sun 18 JCCC Family Golf Tournament Executive Director [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.224 Mon 19 Fall Classes start Kathy Tazumi Wed 21 Origami Workshop Accounting/General Administration Manager Thurs 22 Seniors' Supper Club [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.229 Sat 24 JCCC Karaoke Club Christine Takasaki Mon 26 Japanese Cooking Workshop Community Events Coordinator [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.221 Mon 26 Experience Ukiyo-e Haruko Ishihara Community Rentals Coordinator October [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.228 Christine Seki Sat 1 Euchre Night Corporate Rentals/Programming and Business Development Sun 2 Issei Day [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.231 Sat 8 JCCC Karaoke Club Sally Kumagawa Mon 10 JCCC Closed – Thanksgiving Day Donations/Memberships/Classes Database Administrator [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.223 Wed 19 Origami Workshop Elizabeth Fujita-Kwan Thurs 20 Movie Night – Our Little Sister Heritage and Sedai Project Sat 22 JCCC Karaoke Club [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.303 Mon 24 Japanese Cooking Workshop Constantin Dutescu Operations and Technical Coordinator November [email protected] 416-460-3522 Maki Klotz Sun 6 Footprints of the Newsletter/Receptionist/Office Assistant New Japanese Immigrant Symposium [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.227 Thurs 10 Real Asian Film Festival Yuki Hipsh Mon 14 Opera “Naomi’s Road” Volunteer Coordinator [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext.235 Tues 15 Reel Asian Film Festival Yoshie Watanabe Sat 19 JCCC Karaoke Club JCCC Reception Desk [email protected] 416-441-2345 ext. 222 Mon 21 Japanese Cooking Workshop Wed 23 Origami Workshop Yayoi Kawabe JCCC Website 416-441-2345 ext. 222 Sun 27 Fuyu Matsuri [email protected] SUBMISSION DEADLINE Deadline for the October 2016 issue is: Wednesday September 7, 2016. 10月号の締め切りは2016年9月7日(水)です。 Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Your news is welcome! Please contact: 6 Garamond Court, Toronto, M3C 1Z5 [email protected] tel 416-441-2345 ext.227 Ph: 416-441-2345 Fax: 416-441-2347 The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Newsletter www.jccc.on.ca Editors: James Heron, Kathy Tazumi, Maki Klotz Japanese Section: Yoko Reynolds, Maki Klotz JCCC Upcoming Events September Movie Night: Miss Hokusai Free September Screening of a New Anime Masterpiece Keiichi Hara’s extraordinary animated film tells the story of O-Ei, the little-known daughter of the famed Ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, creator of some of Japan’s most iconic images. An outspoken 23-year-old and the inheritor of both her father’s ar- tistic gifts and stubbornness, she shares his home, and serves as his assistant, often completing or redoing works for him. Unsophisticated, naïve, and fearless, she tugs insistently at the bridle of Edo tradition and propriety, showing her gentle side only when caring for her blind sister O-Nao. Miss Hokusai is mature, unsenti- mental and startlingly beautiful. Lovers of Japanese traditional culture and anime fans alike will find much to enjoy. Winner of the Satoshi Kon Award for best ani- mated feature film at Montreal’s 2015 Fantasia International Film Festival. Voiced by Anne Watanabe and Yutaka Matsushige. O-Ei’s story has also been told in Canadian author Katherine Govier’s excellent novel, The Ghost Brush. Ms Govier will introduce the screening with a reading from her novel and a discussion of O-ei’s life. Date: Thursday September 15, 2016 Time: 7:00pm Ticket: Free admission Donations gratefully accepted. October Movie Night: Our Little Sister Another masterpiece from Hirokazu Kore-eda “You are shaken, by the end, at how much you care about these women and how sorry you are to leave their company.” - A.O. Scott, New York Times "Our Little Sister" is so meticulously shot and gracefully orchestrated that it can be considered a worthy contemporary successor to Kon Ichikawa's masterpiece ‘The Makioka Sisters’." - Maggie Lee, Variety Adapted from the manga Umimachi Diary, Hirokazu Koreeda’s (Nobody Knows, Like Father, Like Son) film was nominated for a record 12 Japanese Academy Awards and won for Best Film, and Best Director among others. Three sisters live together in their late grandmother's house in Kamakura. Attending the funeral of their estranged father, they unexpectedly meet their teenaged half-sister Suzu and immediately fall for the spell of this exquisite young woman. With no one to properly care for her, they decide to invite Suzu to move to their Kamakura home. Taking the shy young girl into their home, the sisters find their long suppressed memories of their unhappy childhood stirred – and the painful past becomes fully present once more when their mother who abandoned them suddenly reappears after 15 years. This sumptuous and moving family drama stars Ayase Haruka, Nagasawa Masami, Kaho and Suzu Hirose. Date: Thursday October 20, 2016 Time: 7:00pm Ticket: $10 (JCCC Member); $12 (General) 4 JCCC Upcoming Events JCCC Family & Friends Experience Ukiyo-e Golf Tournament The JCCC is hosting the 20th Annual Family & Friends Golf Tournament on Sunday September 18, 2016 at Rolling Hills Golf Club. This is a chance for families and friends to share a fun day of golf. All skill levels are welcome and there are lots of prizes to be won! After a great day of golfing, there will be presentations and dinner back at the JCCC. We encourage everyone to join with grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, moms and dads, or just a group of friends. We will continue this year with the shotgun start at 10am and an all Scramble format with shared carts included in the cost. Thank you all for your feedback as we looked Enjoy this rare opportunity to experience Ukiyo-e, including for ways to make it an enjoyable tournament. an overview, carving demonstrations, trying the actual Application forms are available at the printing process, and the chance to appreciate woodblock JCCC reception area. We also welcome hole print masterpieces. sponsors – corporate or family - some sponsor The carving demonstrations will be done by present- levels include your green fees and contribute to day Ukiyo-e artist, Motoharu Asaka from Japan, who will Heritage programming at the JCCC. Our biggest sponsor, be demonstrating advanced techniques and skills that are HollisWealth (Marty Kobayashi), is also generously providing required when carving very thin hairlines. refreshments while out on the course! In addition, there will be approximately 100 Ukiyo-e For more information, please contact the JCCC at carved masterpieces by Master Asaka, along with a variety 416-441-2345 or contact Sharon Marubashi (Co-chair) at of traditional carving tools and bamboo skins (Baren), which 647-291-4751, email [email protected] or Dawna are used to make woodblock prints. Kobayashi (Co-chair) at [email protected] You will also try printing a Ukiyo-e image (your choice of either Kuniyoshi’s goldfish or cat images -3 color print) on Invitation to Japanese paper by using a Baren. A Q&A will also occur during the event. Don’t miss the Kiwa-kai Tea Ceremony special event with Master Asaka, the successor of traditional by Kiwa-kai Ukiyo-e which dates back 300 years. This fall, Kiwa-kai, (Omotesenke) Tea Ceremony school in Date: Monday September 26, 2016 Japan, is visiting Toronto for cultural promotions and holding Time: 7:00 – 9:00pm a tea ceremony party at the JCCC. Fee: JCCC members $8 + HST, General: $10 + HST We would like to welcome you to experience the Material Fee: $3 (Material Fee is extra) Japanese Traditional tea ceremony. Matcha Green Tea and Japanese Sweets are served in each session. Please pay all material fees directly to Master Asaka on the (Each session limited to 30 guests) day of the event. (Cash Only). To register, please call JCCC reception at 416-441-2345. Date: Monday October 3, 2016 Time: ①10: 00-11: 00 ②11: 00-12: 00 ③13: 00-14: 00 ④14: 00-15: 00 ⑤15: 00-16: 00 Location: Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Admission: free (Reserved tickets required) Please call the JCCC reception at 416- 441-2345 for tickets. Tickets are available from Thursday September 1, 2016. 5 JCCC Upcoming Events Seniors' Supper Club – Save the Date!! JCCC Euchre Night Our 2016 sessions of the Seniors Supper Club are almost On Saturday October 1, 2016 the JCCC will be hosting over! Since adding this program to the JCCC’s 2016 Spring another Euchre night. This event brings together friends, fun and Summer Classes and Activities guide we have attracted and a little card playing finesse.