Blog - 丫丫體驗: Japanese Oshogatsu Family Festival 日美博物館新年園遊會

丫丫體驗: Japanese Oshogatsu Family Festival 日美博物館新年園遊會

Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:48:27 PM PST

We celebrated the beginning of 2012 and the Year of the Dragon with fun arts ‘n crafts, food, and exciting cultural activities and performances with over 2,000 people at the Japanese American National Museum on Sunday, January 9th. Here’s a photo journal of our day of fun!

我們出席了日美博物館在1月9日舉行的日本新年表演和慶祝活動, 當天有超過 2,000人一同參與多項有趣的藝術和手工藝展示, 還有日式食品游戲和令人興奮的大鼓表演, 歡迎瀏覽同樂日的照片簿！

It’s the Year of the Dragon! Celebrate 2012 in style by constructing a dragon hat to wear.

Color and decorate a festive dragon streamer to wave in the New Year.

Everyone lends a hand! Building a dragon by adding a cutout of children’s hands to the wall. Throughout the day our dragon would grow and by the end a fun and colorful creature will come to life.

Candy Artist Show

World-renowned candy artist Shaun Ichiyanagi making a dragon sculpture candy! He was totally amazing! Candy Sculpting is an ancient Oriental folk art that originated in China and has been known in Japan for over 1000 years. A dying art, only a few performers exist in the world today. Utilizing old Japanese scissors, this World Renown artist can magically transform a block of molten corn syrup into a beautiful sculpture of almost any shape and size, in 4-5 minutes.

Balloon artist makes a special pet dragon or dragon hat. The Oshogatsu dragon gone crazy and turned into a kid-eating godzilla!!

Onigiri Contest

Kids and grown-ups learn how to make onigiri rice balls and enter the Onigiri contest. 100 of the top best entries will be on display after the selection is made. Each contestant is given one cup of cooked rice to make onigiri. Only one adult and one child can participate in each section. The Jury consisted of Russ Parsons, Columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Lynn Chen, food blogger, Omusubi shop owner Keiko Nakashima, Sunny Blue.

Rice cake pounding ceremony

Mochitsuki (traditional rice cake pounding ceremony) demonstration and performance by Kodama Taiko. Kodama is well known for their unique Mochitsuki (rice cake pounding) performance which combines the age-old tradition of hand-pounding mochi (sweet rice) with the sounds of taiko. This energetic custom is typically performed during the Japanese New Year's, but has lately been expanded to include any celebratory occasion.