2018 Committee Events
Shinnenkai January 13
Setsubun February 11
Delegation, March 15
Takayama Park
Culture Day, November 3
Events of other organizations
Gene and Kimiko Side | Matusmoto family and Hiromi | Sachiko, Kaoru and Carol-Lynne | Tom, the Hirakobas, and David Kumpe | Risa and Masaki Hirano |
Some of the desserts! |
In the side room | The sushi roll challenge - Jeff | The sushi roll challenge - Roger | Craig and Gayle | The Oni mask |
Osamu Hirakawa and Hayshi Kobayashi visited Denver March 12-16. While they had various appointments other days, on March 15 they met with Mayor Hancock in his office. | ||||
Kobayashi and the Mayor | Kimiko and the Mayor discuss our trip flyer | Hirakawa presents Mayor with gift of rice | Love the rice! |
the 2018 workday was different from any other, due to the fact that the Buddhist group Soka Gakkai volunteered to plant cherry trees in the park. | Actually, they planted cherry trees along the Cherry Creek, from Colorado Blvd. to University Blvd. The Easternmost side of that stretch is where the City of Takayama Park is located. | We took advantage of this occasion to have Parks and Rec help us find and relocate additional decorative rocks to Takayama park. | ||
In Red Rocks Park | Here's a good one! |
Saturday May 12, I visited the park and saw the newly obtained rocks ready to be moved; here's a video as I walked towards the park:
Here's the rocks before final placement: ===> | ||||
Starting configuration | Starting configuration |
Monday May 14, a small crew, lead by Darell, Hiro, and Patrick, guided a Parks and Rec crew in placing the rocks; lots of work like this:
Hiro Hiraga and Patrick Allen | Darell Havener, in hat | Now we're all set for the actual work day, Sunday May 20. |
Sunday May 20, was the official work day:
Trimming a character pine | Waiting for the ceremony | Waiting for the prigram | Taiko kicks it off | |
The big dig | Dignitaries and tree | Lauren Planting | At the end of the work day |
And here's what the park looked like after:
The University of Denver Department of Languages and Literatures sponsored our first ever Culture Day celebration, in Sturm Hall on the D.U. Campus | ||||
Display tables in the hall | Nodoka Epel talks about caligraphy | Yumino Kimura reads her poetry | Tina Proctor tells the old goddess stories | |
Thomas DeZauche on Buddhist influence on art | Ghost Paintings, 1 | Ghost Paintings, 2 | Ghost Paintings, 3 | Ikebana by Jaishree Shunmugaraj |
Ikebana by Jaishree Shunmugaraj | Something fishy here - shaving bonito | Music to lift the spirit | Music to lift the spirit | Music to lift the spirit |
We have a presence | Next to Dragon Boat Festival | Marc dressed for the occasion | A Wizard? | A Jedi night? |
We have a princess | Princess 2 | Princess 3 | A magician | Heck of a chastity belt! |
Princess 4 | Princess 5 | Her name is 'Sakura' | Comin' down the escalator | Bit startling |
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