"Rice cake in San Francisco"

At the Asian Art Museum near downtown San Francisco, you can see a Japanese rice cake pounding performance every January to celebrate the New Year. Exhibitions of Hokusai and Hiroshige are also being held, so I went there as well as art appreciation.
(Friends areCrocodile-Jacquard lined jersey Fubi Kimono Shirt Plain StitchTop and Jacquard Gathered Pants, me: KnitBi-color Sleeve V Neck Kantoi​Muslin Wool koshikiWearing)


A wonderful person who can not enter the venue. It is hard to make rice cakes for customers of this number. . .

The staff of the San Francisco Kaikyo will show you the performance while explaining in English the customs of rice cakes in Japan. It may be the first time that I saw rice cake for the first time in over 10 years. The matching hat is cool! It is!

Elementary school children also participate. It seems heavy, but it was pretty good.


After getting a rice cake, I went to the main exhibition.
The content of the exhibition is "How Impressionist representatives such as Monet and Hokusai Gogh were influenced by Japanese art." You can see at a glance how European impressionist painters were influenced by the style of Japanese painters.

Kimono dress" that Takashimaya exported for the European market in 1907.

"Asakusa Kinryuyama" from Utagawa Hiroshige's "Sightseeing Edo Hundred Scenery". This color usage and bold composition. It is new even if it sees now.


Finally, I have seen Oribe 's bowl of Oribe "HEAVENOON".
I had a Japanese-style New Year's taste after a long absence!

(Komori Cho)