Shofuso

We invite all families with children 3, 5, or 7 years old to join us for Shichi-Go-San (7,5,3). Join us in celebrating the growth and well-being of your children in this traditional holiday!🎊 This beautiful ceremony, open to 3 and 7 year-old girls and 5 year-old boys, is an opportunity to get photos of your child dressed in traditional kimono against Shofuso’s backdrop. Included in the ticket price will be kimono dressing in one of our standard kimono and photos throughout the house by a professional photographer, as well as traditional candy. 📸🍬 Click here https://ow.ly/2WCu50TURs2 To learn more about pricing and to reserve your spot! #Shichigosan #Shofuso #JapaneseGarden #JapaneseHolidays

🎑🌕Enjoy an intimate Otsukimi moon-viewing party on Saturday, October 19th at Shofuso! 🌕🎑 Otsukimi (moon-viewing) is a Japanese holiday celebrating the harvest moon, usually observed in September and October. Join us after hours to watch the moon rise over Shofuso’s pond while enjoying snacks and refreshments, catered Japanese food, tea demonstrations, fine sake tastings, and a live Japanese musical performance to end the night. Festive/cocktail attire is requested. Saturday, October 19th 5:30pm - 7:30pm Shofuso Japanese House and Garden $65 non-members | $55 members 🎟️ Interested in joining us to admire the harvest moon? Register: https://lnkd.in/eS8thS57

As part of our first Yokai Movie week👻, JASGP will screen Ju-on: The Grudge on October 25th at Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens!😱 Ju-on: The Grudge Friday, October 25 6:30pm (doors at 6pm) Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides. When a volunteer social worker Rika Nishina is assigned to visit the family who currently lives in the cursed house, she begins being stalked by two vengeful spirits – Kayako, a woman who was brutally murdered by her husband, and their son Toshio. Each person that lives in or visits the haunted house has been murdered or disappeared. Can Rika survive? 🎥Films for Yokai Movie Week will be screened in Japanese, with English subtitles 🎟️For more information and to register: https://lnkd.in/eqa5rM2D #JapaneseMovies #jhorror #Phillymovies #Phillyscreenings

As part of our first Yokai Movie week👻, JASGP will screen Kairo (Pulse) on October 24th at Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens!😱 Kairo (Pulse) Thursday, October 24 6:30pm (doors at 6pm) Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens An apparent suicide in Tokyo triggers a chain of mysterious disappearances involving computers in writer-director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's creepy techno- thriller. After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly images. Is their friend trying to contact them from beyond the grave, or is there something much more sinister going on? 🎥Films for Yokai Movie Week will be screened in Japanese, with English subtitles 🎟️For more information and to register: https://lnkd.in/eqa5rM2D #JapaneseMovies #j-horror #Phillymovies #Phillyscreenings

Join us for the film screening of Kwaidan, on October 22nd at Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens. Kwaidan is one of the first horror films in postwar Japanese cinema, this anthology film contains four distinct, standalone stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted. Films for Yokai Movie Week will be screened in Japanese, with English subtitles. 🎟️For more information and to register: https://lnkd.in/eqa5rM2D

Explore the Cinematic World of J-Horror and join us at Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens for our first Yokai Movie Week! Throughout the week of October 22nd to October 25th, JASGP will hold different Japanese Horror film screenings. Film screenings will be held inside the historic Shofuso Japanese House & Garden with limited seating, adding to the atmospheric horror experience. The selection of films features two classics from the postwar period of horror cinema and two more recent films from the more recent J-Horror genre—all by accomplished directors whose works capture the fears of Japanese society in their respective generations. All films are presented in Japanese with English subtitles. 🎥Movies will start promptly at 6:30pm (doors open at 6pm) Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens $25 Non Members / $20 Members 🎟️For more information and to register: https://lnkd.in/eqa5rM2D

We’re excited to announce a very special edition of Ouchigohan this month: In partnership with #OnigiriAction, TABLE FOR TWO’s annual social good campaign, join Ouchigohan’s Debra Samuels and guest sensei Kimono Mom, MOE and learn to make three different kinds of onigiri rice balls! Moe (@Kimono_Mom) is a former geisha turned mom, now a popular Japanese influencer with over 2 million followers on Instagram, who shares Japanese cooking and home life alongside her five-year-old daughter Sutan. Sunday, October 20th, 2024 7:00–8:30 PM Online (Zoom) $10 JASGP Members | $15 Non-members Reserve your spot here! https://ow.ly/BMZm50TFaxB

Join us on October 13 for a special tour of the Raymond Farm Center for the Living Arts and Nakashima Woodworkers. The Raymonds and Nakashima were mentors and colleagues of Shofuso’s architect, Junzo Yoshimura, both in Japan and in the United States. Amidst the beautiful landscape of New Hope, the tour will begin at the Raymond Farm Center for Living Arts and Design, followed by a tour of the George Nakashima Woodworkers complex. The price of each ticket includes a bento lunch provided by the JASGP. 🔗 To learn more and reserve your spot click here: https://ow.ly/pe9350TrY26 #JapaneseArchitecture #JapaneseDesign #GeorgeNakashima #RaymondFarm #NewHope #docomomous #tourday2024 #moderncorporatecampus

Japanese 101 is sold out but there are open spaces in classes 102 and 106. Japanese 102 is still an introductory class, but students should still be familiar with katakana, hiragana, numbers, greetings, and basic question words. These classes will go over verb conjugation, particles, past tense, and more! Japanese 106 is an introductory class that students should have completed Japanese 105 and will cover chapters 11 and 12. These classes will go over describing what you want to do, telling someone about your experiences, giving advice and more! Both of these classes use the Japan Times Genki 1 textbook and workbook. Registration is open until September 21! To register: https://ow.ly/OI5c50Tr7XJ

Interested in learning Japanese? Registration for the 2024 Fall semester is open until September 21st. From conversational Japanese for travel to intermediate level classroom study, there’s a course for everyone interested in learning Japanese. Classes are held online through Zoom once a week. 💲Non-member: $400 | JASGP Member: $380 📌Register here: https://ow.ly/RRKy50TnEGx 📧Have questions? Email info@japanphilly.org