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GRANDMASTER OF ORIGAMI

こんにちは! Konnichiwa readers!

Today is also Akira Yoshizawa 101st birthday. Who is Akira Yoshizawa? Huh? You don't know who he is? The origamis' fans must knew who he was. He was an origamist. The father of origami, no the GRANDMASTER OF ORIGAMI. He is the one who raised origami from craft to living art. Awesome! What I knew, he created more than 50, 000 models! A few hundred designs were diagrammed in his 18 books. You know what, he was named Order of the Rising Sun by Japanese emperer Hirohito because the highest honors that can be given to a Japanese citizen. 

origamis of  Akira Yoshizawa

In his childhood, he like to make origami. but, he moved to a factory when he was 13 years old to take a job there. In early 20s, he was promoted from factory worker to technical draftsman. As a part of his new duties, he was responsible for teaching junior employees geometry. Amazingly, the traditional art of origami was used to understand and to communicate geometrical problems.

In 1937, he quit his factory job to continue his flavor, to practice origami full-time. Next two decades, he was lived in poverty and just selling tsudukani (a Japanese preserved condiment, made up from seaweed) door-to-door. 

His origamis then were introduced in many books, the success he achieved for what the hard he faced.

• ATARASHII ORIGAMI GEIJUTSU, Origami Geijutsu-Sha 1954 
• Origami Reader I, Ryokuchi-Sha 1957 
• Dokuhon, Vol.1 (Origami Tokuhon), 1973, ISBN 4-8216-0408-6 
• SOSAKU ORIGAMI (Creative Origami), Nippon Hoso Kyokai 1984, ISBN 4-14-031028-6 
• Dokuhon, Vol.2 (Origami Tokuhon), 1986 
• ORIGAMI DOKUHON II (Origami Reader II), Kamakura Shobo 1986, ISBN 4-308-00400-4    

Dokuhon vol 1 (Origami Tokuhon,) 1973

Sosaku Origami (Creative Origami), Nippon Hoso Kyokai 1984

Dokuhon vol 2 (Origami Tokuhon) 1986

Origami Museum I

In March 1998, Yoshizawa was invited to exhibit his origami in the Louvre museum. He did it willingly, and was not opposed to having his photo taken with other competing origami artists, whom he used to detest in his earlier years; many of his patterns were diagrammed by his professional rivals, which angered Yoshizawa when he was younger.^{[citation needed]} He found that he no longer disliked rival origami folders, and that he now enjoyed their company. 

Akira Yoshizawa died on March 14, 2005 in hospital in Itabashi Ward of complications of pneumonia on his 94th birthday. 

In his honor, Akira Yoshizawa was featured on 14 March 2012 as Google's doodle.


TIAH SAN

LESSON 7

あいさつ II/ AISATSU II

1.  ごめん ください = gomen kudasai = time knock the door, before enter someone's house
2. おじゃまします = ojamashimasu = when enter someone's house
3. しつれいします = shitsureishimasu = 'I'm sorry', when you late for something like meeting and class.
4. がんばって ください = ganbatte kudasai = good luck!
5. ざんねん でしたね = zannen deshitane = oh, no. what a bad luck!
6. びっくりしました = bikkurishimashita = oh my God!
7. き を つけてください = ki wo tsuketekudasai = be careful
8. いただきます = itadakimasu = 'I eat first', before eat
9. ごうちそうさま でした = gouchisousama deshita = after done eat
10. ようこそ = youkoso = welcome
11. たいへんですね = taihendesune= so tired!
12. だいじょうぶですか = daijoubudesuka = are you okay?
13. だいじょうぶです = daijoubudesu = I'm okay

TIAH SAN

ワイト の ひ/ WHITE DAY

" あ! どうですか. あした は ワイト の ひ です"

" Aaa! What should I do? Tommorow is White Day!." 

WHITE DAY? I'm sure this is a question will pop out in your mind when I say White Day. Let me explain. White Day is a continuous day of Valentine's Day. It is also called 'Answer Day' and 'Marshmallow Day'. It was first celebrated in 1978 in Japan. We know that on Valentine's Day, female who gives gift to her crush, however, in White Day, males who received honmei-choco (chocolate of love) or girl-choco (courtesy chocolate) on Valentine's Day have to return the favor by giving gifts that should be DOUBLE or TRIPLE cost of the Valentine's gift. Usually, the returning gifts are cookies, jewellery, white chocolate, white lingerie and marshmallows. Now on, males also give handbags and shoes as gifts.

TIAH SAN

SENSEI MISATO



This is our second practical teacher that we have told you about, Sensei Misato, she is wearing Indian's traditional dresses.










She is very cute!!

TIRU SAN

SWEET BAKERY

メロン パン/Melon Pan

Melon pan is a popular sweet bakery in Japan. Why it's called melon pan even it doesn't taste like melon at all? This is because its shape looks like halves melon after they've been baked. While the word 'pan' is borrowed from the Portuguese for "bread' or "buns" which the japanese use reffering to sweet and savory alike.

They are made from an enriched dough covered in a thin layer of crisp cookie dough. They are not traditionally melon flavored, but in recent times it has become popular for manufactures to add melon to melon pan. There are also others flavored with caramel, maple syrup and chocolate. Sometimes with syrup, whipped or flavored cream or custard as a filling. 

Don't be surprise if I said there is also MEGA MELON PAN. (aaaa.... oishii~)

Melon pan is soft, dough and kinda chewy. Well, I never eat, but I know it from people and few webs I read. But, it really looks oishii, I wish I can get one too. never mind, we can bake melon pan ourselves. How? Okay, here is the recipe. 

Ingredients

Bread dough

hard flour 200

dry yeast 2 teaspoon

butter 20g

sugar 2 tablespoon

salt 1/2 teaspoon

lukewarm water 1/2 cup

egg 1/2 piece

Topping cookie dough

• soft flour 120g

baking powder 1/2 teaspoon

butter 40g

sugar 50g

egg 1/2 piece

table sugar 1 tablespoon

How to make

1. Kneading: 15 minutes with bread kneader

2. Primary fermentation: 40 minutes at 30 degrees centigrade

3. Preparation of Topping: Cream butter and sugar in a bowl. Beat in egg. Combine the flour and baking powder. Roll dough into 9 balls. Put them in refrigerator for 30 minutes.

4. Shaping: Punch the dough down and divide it into 9 pieces. Round each dough into a ball and let dough rest for 15 minutes.

Put the topping cookie dough out of refrigerator and roll out each of them into 3 inches in diameter. Cover the bread dough with this cookie dough. Put the table sugar on the top of dough, and make a lattice pattern with the back of knife.

5. Secondary fermentation: 30 minutes at 35 degree centigrade

6. Baking: 15 minutes at 180 degree centigrade  


*Here is a video how to make a mero pan. You can also use the recipe from this video.

Ganbattene! Good luck!


TIAH SAN

JAPANESE GIFT WRAPPING

On the last Wednesday, Japanese Language Club did a 'Japanese Gift Wrapping' for us.The japanese gift wrapping only uses 1 cellophane tape.It was complicated but fun actually.  Here are some pictures :

Time to measure the wrapping paper! Hihihi

Tiah san is so happy when Nadia san is helping her 

Everybody is busy helping out the others.

Here are some who have finished!

Me with the 'teachers', Farah san and Tiru san.

If you want to learn on how to do it :

Photo credits : Firdaus san 

ALIA SAN