OnJapan Event – April 2015

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OnJapan Event – April 2015
OnJapan Event – April 2015
OnJapan proudly announces our original events of “something Japan.” Enjoy your new experience and meeting new people by joining our fun events.
Feel free to contact our staff or visit our website www.onjapan.tokyo for application. Looking forward to meeting you at our events!
Date
Time
Event Title
Detail
Workshop led by Mr. Takuma Nitta, from Ishinomaki, Miyagi
 Lecturer: Mr. Takuma Nitta
Prefecture, producer of the “URBAN GREEN MAKERS” brand.  Language: Japanese & English
7:30-8:45
Participants will create a Terrarium, a living green planter that 
Limited to 10 people (first-come, first-served
expresses the freshness of spring using material from
Café will serve
Fri
basis)
breakfast at Make your own Terrarium Ishinomaki. Come and channel your creative ideas and sense
of spring in nature into a stylish planter you can take home with  Charge: 2,500 JPY per person including
8:15 AM)
Green
breakfast and the planter you create to take
you.
Fresh Green lifestyle
workshop
3
“Just 30 Min Lesson!”
7
9
7:30-8:30
Café will serve How to make green tea +
Tue
breakfast at tasting of 3 different teas
8:15 AM)
(with breakfast)
7:30-8:30
Café will serve
Thurs
breakfast at
8:15 AM)
Pilates in your work-day
clothes
Start to your day with
‘core consciousness!’
Washoku meets Italian
Olive Oil
11
14
14
15
Sat
14:00-16:30
Fun & Easy
Cooking workshop
home with you.
Did you know all you need to enjoy green tea at home is green  Lecturer: Ms. Yoko Mitsuki
tea and a bamboo whisk? Learn how to make a bowl of green  Language: Japanese & English
tea, and find a favorite tea from the 3 different teas we use in 
Limited to 10 people (first-come, first-served
the lesson.
basis)
 Charge: 2,000 JPY per person including tea
and breakfast
Do you know that wearing a kimono everyday unconsciously  Lecturer: Ms. Satomi Nagamori (BASI
works your "core muscles" in your torso? Dressed in a kimono
licensed Pilates instructor)
requires you to sit up straight, so naturally the torso is used. In 
Language: Japanese & English
this workshop, instead sitting in a kimono in a chair cafe, we
work on your awareness of using the core muscles. Since the  Limited to 10-15 people (first-come, firstserved basis)
workshop is first thing in the morning, you(re invited to come in
your work clothes. It promises a refreshing and inspiring start  Charge: 2,000 JPY per person including
to the day!
breakfast
Now that olive oil is truly international, it has become an
 Lecturer: Ms. Rie Miyazaki
essential ingredient in the Japanese kitchen. In this workshop  Language: Japanese & English
we explore ways of using olive oil, and incorporating it into
 Limited to 15 people (first-come, first-served
Japanese dishes! Tomato infused olive oil is great from
basis)
marinating vegetables or with grilled fish. Soft elegant olive oil
 Charge: 3,900 JPY per person (including tax,
or a stronger olive oil that complements shoyu, yuzu and
all ingredients, food tasting &
lemon peel can be drizzled on many ingredients taste in
washoku dishes. The lesson will introduce two olive oils for
complimentary drink)
tasting, and combine them into two simple dishes that we’ll
eat.
Japanese nail art is becoming increasingly popular around the  Lecturer: Ms. Sayaka Iwashita from Lottie
world – as is sushi. This fun event is a gel art lesson focusing on
Nail, Tokyo
sushi – your chance to decorate your nails with your choice of 
Language: Japanese & English
sushi motifs. In the lesson, you’ll paint one of your own nails,
TOKYO SUSHI NAIL  Limited to 10 people (first-come, first-served
Tue 14:00-15:30 Decorate your nails with as well as partner with another participant to share the
basis, minimum of 4 persons)
experience.
Sushi Design
 Charge: 3,900 JPY per person including gel
art kit (2 art brushes and dotting pen), gift
(nail oil), drink & dessert)
Following on our popular wine tasting evening in February,
 Lecturer: Mr. Masayoshi Ijima (Chateau
Winemaker’s Seminar we’d like to introduce a second Yamanashi winery – Chateau
Sakaori)
Sakaori. Winemaker Mr. Masayoshi Ijima will share his passion 
Language: Japanese & English
Enjoying Yamanashi wine for wine, entertains with stories behind the making of each
 Limited to 25 people (first-come, firstTue 19:00-20:45 from Chateau Sakaori, including unique Japanese varietals, how to enjoy them to their
served basis)
fullest, and matching them with Japanese and international
Yamanashi
 Charge: 3,900 JPY per person (includes
cuisine. If you want to learn more about Japanese wine, it
promises to be a tasty and inspiring evening. Tasting for three
tasting of 3 different glasses of wine and
wines and snacks included!
light snack)
A regular workshop leader at the Café, calligrapher and author  Performer: Mr. Naoki Sakaguchi with Mr.
Naoki Sakaguchi created the scroll hanging next to the library in Stan Jack on bassoon
the Cafe. In April he will be joined in his live performance by
 Language: Japanese & English
bassoon player Stan Jack. A Frenchman, Stan has been
Naoki Sakaguchi
fascinated with the sound of the bassoon since he was 15 years  Limited to 20 people (first-come, firstCalligraphy Nite
served basis)
old, and studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de
Wed 19:00-21:00
 Charge: 3,900 yen per person (tax included)
Musique de Paris before joining the Ensemble Orchestral de
Live Performance with Mr. Paris as bassoon soloist and a brilliant career in classical music. (with one drink and snacks set)
Stan Jack on bassoon In his this collaboration, he will play bassoon while Naoki
paints. It should be a fantastic performance, with a warm
evening (we hope) tasty snacks and drinks, as well as quick
calligraphy lesson from Naoki-san.
Did you know all you need to enjoy green tea at home  Lecturer: Ms. Yoko Mitsuki
7:30-8:30
is green tea and a bamboo whisk? Learn how to make  Language: Japanese & English
Café will serve How to make green tea + a bowl of green tea, and find a favorite tea from the 3  Limited to 10 people (first-come, first-served
16 Thurs
breakfast at tasting of 3 different teas different teas we use in the lesson.
basis)
 Charge: 2,000 JPY per person including tea
8:00 AM)
(with breakfast)
and breakfast
“Just 30 Min Lesson!”
Date
17
18
18
22
Fri
Sat
Sat
Time
Event Title
7:30-8:30
Calligraphy in the
Café will serve
morning!
breakfast at
8:15 AM)
A soothing way to start
your day
11:00-13:00
17:00-19:30
Detail
Calligrapher Naoki Sakaguchi’s workshops at OnJapan CAFÉ are  Lecturer: Mr. Naoki Sakaguchi
always special fun, focused on a single brush point, and wrapped  Language: Japanese & English
in the smell of India ink. An inspiring and gentle way to start the 
Limited to 10 people (first-come, first-served
day. Feel free to join us.
basis)
 Charge: 2,000 JPY per person including
breakfast
A little bit of inspiration goes a long way in styling a table. Miki
Kobayashi, who works in a range of style focused fields from
teaching culture to decorating model houses, shows how to
coordinate your table, this time featuring pottery dishes from
Made in Kyushu
Kyushu. The featured dishes are from renowned potteries in Arita
(Saga), Karatsu (Saga) Hasami (Nagasaki) and Ontayaki (Oita),
Coordinating a table each with very different characteristics that showcase the rich
with Kyushu pottery pottery traditions of the local area. We’ll discuss the difference
and attractions, and even how to mix and match the dishes. Then
we’ll each choose a dish, and put it to use. Following the
workshop, enjoy a weekend brunch created by Edward Crawford,
our CAFÉ food producer, enjoying a brunch served on your choice
of a plate and at the table you have just decorated.
One-coin Premium OnJapan CAFÉ is excited to present its first shochu tasting event
hosted by Christopher Pellegrini, one of the only non-Japanese
Shochu Tasting
shochu sommeliers in the world. He will help kick off the Kyushu
event by leading guests through shochu's production methods
Learn the basics of and drinking styles while sampling smooth products from the
Japan's most popular barley, rice, and potato categories. If you've ever wanted a simple
spirit by trying several explanation of what makes this drink unique and delicious, then
"light type" shochu! this is the tasting for you.
 Lecturer: Ms. Miki Kobayashi
 Language: Japanese & English
 Limited to 10 people (first-come, first-served
basis)
 Charge: 4,200 JPY per person (with lesson,
brunch plate and one drink, tax included)
 Lecturer:: Mr. Christopher Pellegrini
 Language: English & Japanese
 Limited to 30 people (first-come, first-served
basis)
 Charge: 3,000 JPY per person including 3
different glasses of Shochu with light snack)
No Kyushu-themed event is complete without a healthy serving of  Lecturer:: Mr. Christopher Pellegrini
the indigenous spirit, and OnJapan CAFÉ's resident expert,
 Language: English & Japanese
Premium Shochu
Christopher Pellegrini, will take guests through a sit-down tasting 
Limited to 15 people (first-come, first-served
Workshop for Beginners while discussing the essentials of shochu's myriad categories,
basis)
production quirks, and drinking styles. Chef Edward Crawford will
Wed 19:00-20:45
 Charge: 3,900 JPY per person including 5
Explore five shochu from be cooking up some delightful dishes for pairing with the five
different glasses of Shochu with Ed's Kitchen
shochu from some of Japan's famous distilleries.
the Scotland of Japan!
snack)
 Lecturer: Mr. Takuma Nitta
 Language: Japanese & English
Fresh Green lifestyle
7:30-8:45
 Limited to 10 people (first-come, first-served
workshop
Café will serve
23 Thurs
- Make your own
basis)
breakfast at
 Charge: 2,500 JPY per person including
Terrarium
8:15 AM)
breakfast and the planter you create to take
home with you
Sake sommelier and OnJapan CAFÉ advisor Yoko Yamamoto leads  Lecturer: Ms. Yoko Yamamoto
an exploration of Kyushu sake. Long associated with shochu, it
 Language: Japanese & English
may come as a surprise that Kyushu has a long tradition of sake 
Limited to 15 people (first-come, first-served
making, with Kitaya brewery in Fukuoka selected as the
Junmai Sake Workshop International Wine Challenge Sake Champion of 2013, and the
basis)
23 Thurs 19:00-20:45 for Beginners - Kyushu most important sake-brewing yeast strain of all, Yeast Number  Charge: 3,900 JPY per person (included sake
Junmai Sake
samples from 6 Tohoku Prefectures, plus
Nine, was discovered in Kumamoto. So it is a timely change for
Yoko to look south to Kyushu. Let’s explore Kyushu Junmai sake!
snacks)
Workshop led by Mr. Takuma Nitta, from Ishinomaki, Miyagi
Prefecture, producer of the “URBAN GREEN MAKERS” brand.
Participants will create a Terrarium, a living green planter that
expresses the freshness of spring using material from Ishinomaki.
Come and channel your creative ideas and sense of spring in
nature into a stylish planter you can take home with you.
We’ll have an izakiya-tyle atmosphere, with Kyushu-stye
appetizers flavoured with yuzu-koshō piriri and Oita ryukyu.
24
Fri
7:30 to 8:45
(Breakfast
served at 8
o'clock. Feel
free to leave
any time you
like)
If you feel flower arrangement is a little bit elitist, but you enjoy  Lecturer: Motomi Yamane (HANAIKE)
looking at and arranging flowers, this is the workshop for you.
 Language: Japanese & English
Spend a fresh morning hour arranging seasonal flowers, followed 
Kado for Beginners
Limited to 12 people (first-come, first-served
by breakfast. You can take your arrangement and the sponge base
Enjoying the morning with you to enjoy at home or office.
basis)
through the love of
flowers.
Arranging flowers in
everyday vases.
 Cost: 2,000 JPY per person (tax included)
(including breakfast)
 Note: • You can take your arrangement of
flowers and sponge base home with you.
The sponge will retain enough water for the
flowers to get them through the day.
Weekday:
10:30 – 22:00 (LO 21:30)
Sat.Sun.Holiday: 11:00 – 20:00 (LO 19:30)
* Open 7 days a week
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