[Music] hi Kid Vision kids it's Miss Penny and I'm at the beautiful Japanese garden and Museum to learn about the Japanese culture japan is a beautiful country island it's in Asia it has mountains big modern cities and ancient temples people in Japan speak Japanese hi my name is Wendy and today we're going to learn about origyami have you guys done origyami before no no okay so what is origyami origamy means in Japanese folding paper so we're going to make today a lovely butterfly okay what is origyami it originally came from China and then it went to Korea then to Japan so it became popular in Japan and it's a very popular pastime for kids and adults in Japan are you ready to learn about making origami yes okay there are a lot of different things you can make out of origami but today we're going to make butterflies first we picked out the paper origami paper comes in beautiful colors and patterns it's a square shape so it's the same length on all four sides we're going to keep pinching it and while we open it cuz we want to create the body so now it looks kind of like a butterfly airplane [Music] then it was time to look for real butterflies in the quiet and quaint Japanese gardens in Japan gardens are calm and peaceful places little bridges and paths help you explore people go there to relax and to enjoy nature heather the head gardener showed us around the beautiful gardens so this area is known as our co-diamond gate and this formal gate welcomes us into the gardens you know what the really neat part about this is if you stand right here where you are and you look through the doors of the frame of this gate makes it look like you're looking at a piece of artwork in a museum gallery then we went to a very special garden within the garden so today I've brought you to the flat garden and the flat garden is a really interesting garden because it's mostly made of rocks right so you see all my rocks so the really neat part about this type of garden is that we rake patterns in it right like you see we have lines and we have circles right and I have these lovely lines that kind of give the illusion as if the gravel behind me is water right maybe a lake maybe a stream maybe a puddle but we rake lines in it so it seems like there's a current right in the ocean and then the circles around my little island over there as if it's waves crashing upon the island so this garden is really interesting because we're not only just using this part of the rocks right we're also inviting the rest of the environment behind us into the garden right so we're not only just looking at what's here we're also looking at the museum roof behind me we're looking at the pine trees so it makes this area look much bigger than it is right so this time in history a lot of the Japanese um properties were getting smaller and smaller because everybody was moving and they were you know making smaller and smaller properties so by doing this type of landscape trick it made their yards look much bigger i'd like to invite you guys to come and sit by me so sit here by me yep you guys can sit there yep just like that can you sit so I'm going to teach you a little something called mindfulness and so it's something that I like to do before I rake my rock garden and what it does is it lowers my stress level and it makes me much more ready to do the task that I have in front of me now this is a fabulous exercise to do we take a deep breath in and we let a breath out and we take a deep breath in and we take a breath out and then we just try and keep our minds quiet [Music] good job this is the rake that I use to rake these lovely lines into my rock garden ready i pull back nice and smooth and I follow those two lines as best I can looks amazing you guys have gotten an opportunity that not many people get to do in Japan so in Japan the only ones who get the ability to rake those rock gardens are typically Buddhist monks or those that work in a Shinto shrine so it's very very special thank you so much for joining me today and helping me rake my rock garden thank you thank you that was great next we learned how to use chopsticks chopsticks are Japanese eating utensils they take some practice to use so we had a special class today's teacher is Miwako and teacher and Japanese sensei so this is Miwako Sensei and Penny Sensei so Miss Penny and Miss Miwako is going to teach you how to use these chopsticks first this chopstick just one chopstick goes to between fourth finger and the middle finger you hold it like this you see can you do it mm- I don't you can can you do it first finger the middle finger you doing you got it second chopstick second chopstick like this goes to index finger and the middle finger like this so the bottom one stays straight and the second one is the move doing good is that really hard hello is that hard can you eat food with this chopstick no no let's try something let me use if you're going to eat a noodle in Japan you use chopstick yes and then you pick up like this can you show me how to hold it again sure pick it up and your right hand pick it up this hand and just put it down let's do that together it actually looks like a noodle it's like that it's like this we practiced with pretend rubber band noodles it really took a lot of practice to learn how to use chopsticks next it was time for a sweet Japanese treat it's a shaved iced dessert that's often topped with sweet syrups and bright colors or you can use Japanese paste or green tea powder and it's sweetened with condensed milk first we shaved a block of ice with a special machine the top it has little spikes to hold the ice down and grip onto that's why you have to push down that's why you have to push down i'm going to lock it in place great okay so you want to top off a little bit more okay all right i'll help you the shaved ice is called kaki gori can you say that with me kaki gori and this is auki auki auki sweet red beans okay so this is green tea which is matcha matcha matcha and then this is sweet and condensed milk [Music] [Music] we had a great time today at the Japanese garden and museum we learned so many things did you have fun we did how do you say goodbye in Japanese it is sayonada oh that's so I can say [Music]