My daughter is 8 years old. In such a hurry as this year, I have never prepared a holiday. She threw some ideas in advance, but the basic preparation took two hours in the morning before the guests arrived. Therefore, the holiday turned out to be unpretentious, but, in general, I liked it. The birthday girl and the guests seem to be happy too.
This year we read Japanese fairy tales, and my daughter asked for a holiday in this vein. Well, Japan is so Japan. The only thing that I wildly regretted in the preparation process was that I didn't have more time for it. The topic turned out to be very fertile, and at every moment I wanted to stay longer, delve into encyclopedias, pictures, films, music. Well, okay, what happened is what happened.
I never succeed in taking pictures at a holiday, but this time I made a few clicks on my phone - just for memory. If any of the guests' parents are against posting children's photos, let me know, I will clean it right away.
While the guests were gathering, we made cute bookmarks with them in the form of Japanese dolls. Once such a handicraft was carried out at the Games rally by one mother, she helped me quickly find a scheme. It turned out very (even unexpectedly) cute.
Then there was a game with words - like "the gallows", but without the gallows)) I quickly wrote the words in Photoshop and painted over on top. The guys guessed the letters (is there a letter in this word ...?), I erased upper layer, and the words gradually recovered. Of course, you could write them on a piece of paper, and glue them on top with stickers. But it was more convenient and faster for me. Along the way, we figured out what this word means and how it looks (looked at the photos). The words were: origami, Fujiyama, ikebana, kimono, hieroglyph, samurai. We created, so to speak, a context.
Then it was time for the show. We took a sign that was surfing the Internet “How does it sound? your name in Japanese ”and tried to change all their names. We introduced ourselves in a circle: I am Chikitoka. Etc. It was also possible to take the correspondence of names by meaning, but not all the names of our guests were there, so they did not. We talked about how the Japanese are terribly polite and pay great attention to etiquette, so we practiced bowing.
The concept of the holiday was that I would read Japanese fairy tales from a large beautiful book to children. But the right to read must be earned. Therefore, they will go through all sorts of tests, for which they will be able to get multi-colored stones, and for every three stones - “redeem” the reading of several pages. This is paradoxical, but looking ahead, I will say that the idea worked. And as soon as they had three stones, they shouted “Read! Read!" ran to where we read.
To pass the test, you first had to guess whether the fact that I was telling them was true or not. If they guessed right, then the game began. If not, then the game also began, only they returned one stone to me (if, of course, they had it). For each fact I tried to sneak in a little bit of historical, culturological, country-specific information, but quite a bit, because, alas, I don't know much about Japan myself.
There was no special logical connection between the stages, so I just pulled one at a time from the bag at random. I will write them down in the order in which they dropped out to us.
1. Countries that traditionally eat with chopsticks include China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Australia.
No. In Australia, people don't eat with chopsticks, except in Japanese restaurants.
It was a very simple task. It took a minute to fill a small bowl with popcorn with chopsticks. Everyone had sticks, and this greatly complicated the matter, since everyone was wildly interfering with each other. But nothing, we did it, had some fun, gobbled up the popcorn that didn’t fall to the floor.
2. Calligraphy is a Japanese word.
No, Greek. Means beautiful handwriting.
Here, too, everything was simple. I printed Japanese characters, covered the floor with craft, gave each a brush and poured mascara into bowls. Everyone drew what they liked, and then we guessed who did what. They drew selflessly, many asked for a second sheet, and it was even a pity to finish. But we still had a lot of things to do.
Here, it seems, they had accumulated three stones, and we went to read the first part of the first tale. They huddled in a small room and lit a candle. In general, you could have done nothing else, but just read the children for an hour or two) But no, we broke off on the very interesting place and went on to earn stones to continue the tale.
3. Japanese geta shoes usually have a high platform. it was very convenient to move around in it in rainy weather.
Yes. Not only because of this (it is also convenient to work in water-filled rice fields, etc.), but also because of this.
I built a geta, forgive me the yogis and the neighbors below, out of bricks and yoga belts. The task was simply to walk on such stilts around the room back and forth.
4. Hokku (haiku). In traditional hokku, there are always 17 syllables (5 -7 - 5).
Yes.
I took five hokku and cut them line by line. The task was to restore the original verses. It was terribly funny because, as it turned out, they can be combined in almost any way. Here are the original ones:
"Transparent waterfall" ...
Fell into a light wave
Pine needle.
Clear moon.
By the pond all night long
I wander, admiring ...
I climbed the hill
Full of sadness - and what:
There are rose hips in bloom!
I met a messenger on the way.
Spring wind playing
It rustles with an open letter.
There are butterflies scurrying
Back and forth - everyone is looking
Gone spring ...
When we dealt with this, we called three mothers who came to us with the guests, and asked them to depict these hokku for us in pantomime, and the children guessed it.
5. Samurai could be not only men, but also women.
Yes.
They played their favorite Chukchi, it seems, game about a seal, they only called it "The Battle of the Samurai." Hung up thick cardboard with a hole in the middle and gave out to the samurai on the sword. On the count of three, it was necessary to stick the sword into the hole, which is not easy, because the opponent is trying to do the same. They played in pairs, the winner stayed, the loser was exchanged for a new player, until everyone tried their hand.
Perhaps it would be more appropriate here to play "The Princess, the Samurai and the Dragon", but it just occurred to me. So we played Princess ... later, without any station.
6. Months in Japanese do not have names and are named by numbers.
Yes.
Here we were going to play team play, when the leader calls the name of one player, he calls the number, and exactly that number of players must stand at the same time. Actually, the exercise is not the easiest, but the children were not bastard to me either. Some of them immediately asked: "So you can name 10?" (and there were just 10 of them) This was enough for the one whose name I called to say "ten", everyone stood up, and the game ended with their instant and unconditional victory. Usually it takes teenagers about 20 minutes, and I won't even talk about adults)) I could have offered them to reckon with their eyes closed, but then they just earned the missing stone, everyone really wanted to go read, so I didn't torture them and I just admired myself))
7. In classic origami, you can use sheets of paper of any shape.
No, just a square.
This was probably the most difficult test. At first I thought to lay down simple boats with them, but then I realized that they were just not made of a square. Therefore, I stopped all the same on cranes, and this is much more difficult. With grief in half, most of them still turned out, and we collected them in a beautiful garland, which remained for the birthday girl in memory of the holiday.
8. Japan is located on 6852 islands.
Yes.
There was a classic crossing over bumps, only here they were called islands. It was necessary to move to the other end of the corridor, while until they stepped on the island, he was safe. But if a person's foot had already visited it, and then he remained without touching, then the island disappeared. So it was necessary to make sure that there was someone's foot on each island, help each other and support. We coped without any problems, lost a couple of islands, but crossed over.
Sumo wrestlers are prohibited from driving.
Yes.
It was supposed to be a classic game for two, when it is necessary to push the opponent out of the circle. It seemed to me that the samurai battle was enough for them, they did not want to add competition at the end.
Tokyo ranks first in the world in terms of population density.
No, Shanghai. Tokyo is fourth.
I planned to make a game when the whole team needed to fit on a blanket. Then it folds in half, and again it is necessary to fit all together, without spurs. Then four times. But they didn't play either, I was afraid that tired children would get too excited.
Instead of these two tests, we played "The Princess, the Samurai and the Dragon." At first, I planned this game for the beginning of the holiday, but our introduction was already delayed, so I moved it to the end, and it turned out to be a great final chord.
Participants are divided into two teams and play according to the principle of "rock-paper-scissors". At the signal of the leader, the ALL team simultaneously depicts one character (princess, samurai or dragon), having made a collective decision in advance who to portray. The samurai defeats the dragon, the dragon defeats the princess, the princess defeats the samurai. The game is played up to three victories.
Then there was a circle with the presentation of gifts, the response word of the birthday girl, where she said to everyone some personal words and gave me a souvenir from those that were in the game.
Then there was a cake and, of course, a Japanese cartoon at the end.
We watched Miyazaki's classic Spirited Away. Surprisingly, it turned out that only a couple of people knew him.
In general, it was a great holiday. Not least because my beautiful daughter had absolutely wonderful friends visiting))
Today, it is rare to meet young people who have not yet tried Japanese cuisine. Sushi and rolls continue to gain in popularity. If you and your friends are regulars of oriental restaurants, organize theme party in honor of the birthday. The main goal of the event is to get acquainted with the culture of the land of the rising sun, and at the same time to have fun in a new way.
Preparing invitations
There are characteristic symbols of Japan that can be used in the design of invitations: Japanese flag, sakura, fan, hieroglyphs, geisha, samurai.
You can use this template for invitations.
What to wear for a party
To create the right atmosphere, girls should mimic a kimono by belting it with a wide strip of colorful fabric. Features of makeup: light skin of the face, well-defined bright lips, eyes are drawn with arrows. Men can also wear a kimono, but this time a solid color, or belted with a silk shirt and wear wide trousers.
We decorate the premises for the holiday
Japan has many symbols of its own: from an originally designed low table and ethnic music to sakura branches and incense. All these attributes will help to create a calm national atmosphere, you can hang the flag of Japan and a poster with the image of a dragon. Choose suitable melodies here, put a Japanese flute for the background. Arrange the figurines of the gods, and light incense for the scent.
We're setting the table
The party will not be complete without traditional seafood, sushi and rolls. Check out Japanese-style menus and table setting rules.
There is nothing in common between birthday celebrations in Russia and eastern celebrations, so our script has only focus and thematic attributes.
The nuances of organizing a holiday
It is necessary to work hard on the preparation not only for the organizer, but also for the guests. Prepare:
- Congratulations in the style of Japanese wisdom
- Greeting card with wishes-hieroglyphs
- Gift related to the culture of this country (set for table setting, book by Haruki Murakami, interior items)
The organizer needs to prepare small gifts for the guests in advance so that they have an object that reminds of this evening: magnets with corresponding pictures, fans, incense or even a couple of original hasi.
Entertainment
Learning hieroglyphs
Divide the guests into two or three teams. Prepare, according to the number of teams, sheets with images of hieroglyphs and separately - with their decoding (of course, without numbering and alternating), set the task: to find a match for each hieroglyph. The team that picks up the most correct pairs in two minutes wins.
1 - love
2 - sakura
3 - samurai
6 - lovely snowflakes fall dancing
7 - drawing
8 - respect
Japanese wrestling
Everyone is well aware of such a martial art as sumo. So let the opponents come together in the battle today and the strongest will win. Of course, we will not dress the wrestlers as real sumo wrestlers - this is too cruel, but undoubtedly it is necessary to give some similarity. Inflate big Balloons, securely fix them on the bellies of the "fighters" and announce the beginning of the battle. Whose ball will burst first - that one is eliminated. You can see not only the men's, but also the women's wrestling, let everyone take part, and the winners will be determined.
Guess what I'm talking about
One participant says the phrase in Japanese, while the others try to guess what it means. The speaker's task is to pronounce a phrase with intonation that conveys meaning. The task is not as simple as it seems at first glance: the first reading will be confusing, it is funny to see how the participants cope with the difficulties of the language. Here are some sample cards:
- About ganki deska? - How are you doing
- Hajimemashite. Do: dzoyorosiku - Nice to meet you
- Otanjo: bi omedeto: godzapas - happy birthday
- Aishiteru yo! -I love you
- anata no kotoga SuKI des - I like you
- Mosimoshi - hello
- Campai! - to the dregs
- Kore ga jinsei - such is life
Do YOU know everything about the land of the rising sun?
For this competition, prepare a small glass and pour some sake into it. Each participant, when he picks it up, must remember something about Japan (word, symbol, etc.) while adding a little sake and passing it on to another. Anyone who hesitates or has a pile in his hands that is overflowing - must immediately knock it over. Words that can be uttered: kamikaze, karaoke, mother japon, harakiri, origami, ikebana, sudoku, Japanese policeman, banzai, and more, including the phrases learned today.
Geisha dance
The evening will end with a competition for the best geisha dance to oriental music. Let all the fair sex demonstrate their capabilities, and the winner will be determined by universal suffrage. If I give a lot, then suggest such nominations.
If you master:) ... I wrote this out from the site of a Russian lady living in Japan.
Tonkatsu cutlets cooked repeatedly, deliciously with the sauce of the same name (it happens in Japanese online stores, where you can also buy briquettes of a semi-finished Japanese curry sauce). By the way, tonkatsu is served with cabbage salad: finely chop the cabbage, mash with salt, season with lemon juice, vegetable oil and sugar. You can also add finely chopped cucumber and dill (this is from the table's gag :))
Wasabimayo salad dressing.
Table mayonnaise - 1/2 cup
Wasabi (paste) - 1/2 teaspoon
Soy sauce - 2 tablespoons
Mix everything together with a spoon, fork, or egg whisk. Until a homogeneous consistency! Be especially careful to ensure that all the wasabi is stirred. When eating a salad, a piece of wasabi on the tongue can seriously spoil the sensations.
It turns out a dressing similar in consistency to mayonnaise, creamy color.
The proportions can be varied according to your own tastes. For those who love gory-eyed spicy foods, increase your wasabi dose to 1 teaspoon or more (depending on how fresh you find wasabi paste). Soy sauce plays the role of salt, so you DO NOT need to add additional salt. But if you prefer very salty food, you can add more salt. Just try it first.
What salads can you season?
Variations I've personally tried:
1. Primitive.
Jacket potatoes - 2 pieces of medium size
Boiled egg (steep) - 1 piece
Fresh cucumber - ... to be honest, I no longer remember what cucumbers are found in Russia at this time of the year. Assume that there should be about the same amount of cucumber as potatoes. Maybe a little less.
Peel the potatoes and eggs. Cut and fill everything.
2. Avocado and shrimp.
Avocado - 1 piece
Small shrimps - about 1 glass of boiled (about the same volume as avocado)
Onions - to taste, 1-2 tablespoons very thinly chopped.
Shake the ripe avocado out of the skin and cut into cubes. Boil the shrimps (peeled "tails") in salted water. Cut the onion into thin half rings, lightly pour over with boiling water or just soak for 5 minutes cold water(then, the stump is clear, drain the water). Mix and fill everything. It is necessary to mix very carefully, because avocado has a vile habit of "smearing".
For beauty, you can mix shrimp with onions and dressing and a little avocado. Place this mixture in a salad bowl and sprinkle the remaining avocado on top.
3. Avocado with potatoes.
Boiled potatoes "in their skins" - 1-2 pieces
Avocado - 1 piece
Fresh cucumber - 1 small
Peel the potatoes and avocado, cut everything into cubes or something else, season and mix. Likewise: mix carefully!
4. Spinach with squid.
I recommend the squid-spinach ratio somewhere around 1 to 4 (squid by weight is 4 times less than spinach). But the proportions can be changed depending on your tastes.
Boil spinach, squeeze thoroughly. You can cook already chopped or cut already boiled. Frozen spinach will also work, thaw it and squeeze it out of excess moisture too.
Boil squid (peeled carcass) in salted water. Cut into strips 2-3 centimeters long and about 5 millimeters wide.
You can add thinly chopped onions and lightly soaked onions to "beat off" the bitterness.
Season and mix.
In general, this dressing goes well with foods that have little or no pronounced taste. All kinds of seafood are going well. Potato, fresh cucumbers and boiled eggs also recommend. I wouldn't recommend pickles and sausage-ham, but if someone really wants to ... 10.21.2014 10:02:39, trisch
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Niku-dzhyaga (niku - meat, dzhyagimo - ordinary potatoes)
In general, meat and potatoes, stewed in soy sauce. Lots of variations are possible. I will give a classic version and possible additions, a lot of room for creativity.
Necessary:
potatoes, say, 500 grams;
meat, beef, 200 grams (you do not need to take the tenderloin, the meat should be a little fatty, take it about like a stew or roast); meat should be 2-3 times less than potatoes (pork is possible, but then not very fatty, boneless chicken will also do). Bones and cartilage are not desirable.
onion, one large head
dasha broth (1 tablespoon per 500 ml of water)
ordinary soy sauce (I don’t know which ones are found in Russia, take the simplest one, BUT NOT Sour!), that one. that for sushi is fine.
sugar, a little sake, salt
any vegetable oil, but refined (so that there are no foreign odors)
canned or frozen green peas. canned can be used as is, just drain the water, it is better to boil the ice cream slightly (drain the water too, of course).
A deep skillet or wide, heavy-bottomed saucepan.
Peel the potatoes and cut into pieces the size of a tablespoon. Medium potatoes - about 8 pieces. Small young potatoes can be whole.
Cut the meat into pieces 2x2x2 cm approximately. It is better if a large piece can be cut into very thin slices along the fibers, the thinner the better. But slices are okay too. You can also use minced meat.
Cut the onion in half, and then chop the hemispheres lengthwise, not too neatly, somewhere about 5-10 mm wide.
Everything seems to be ready. Let's get started!
1. Put the pan over medium heat. To the bottom - a little vegetable oil, two tablespoons. We throw the onion into the heated oil, and then the meat. Fry until the meat completely changes color and begins to release juice. Here you can add 1/3 cup of sake, if you have it, and stir for another 5 minutes. If you don't have sake - well, don't. The meat should be easily pierced with a fork. If harsh, reduce heat and stir a little more. We throw potatoes there. Stir for 5 minutes and fry everything together.
2. Fill the meat and potatoes with dasha broth. If we use a dry concentrate, then you can prepare the broth in advance or pour water over the potatoes with meat, and then add the dasha concentrate. The broth should only slightly cover the meat and potatoes. I think two glasses, no more. Follow the instructions on the concentrate packaging! Or try on the tongue: the taste should be slightly salty.
3. When it boils, add sugar. Spoons 2-3 tablespoons. Try again: distinctly sweet, but not sugary, the amount of sugar should not "hamper" the taste of the dasha. Close the lid and simmer over low heat until the potatoes are semi-cooked, about 10 minutes. Keep in mind - the less you interfere, the better. Otherwise, there is a risk of getting at the exit mashed potatoes with meat.
4. Add soy sauce. Here - to taste, like with salt. 2 tablespoons added and tasted. It shouldn't be very sweet, such a pleasant combination of sweet and salty. But the overall flavor should be intense enough. Those who prefer sweeter can pour less sauce, some saltier - a little more sauce and add a pinch of salt. Simmer for another ten minutes until cooked. After adding the soy sauce, leave the lid on so that the water boils off a little. Then the broth will be thicker and tastier.
5. It is better if the pan stands for about 20 minutes after turning off the heat to distribute the aroma. But here it is better to cover it with a lid.
6. Arrange on plates and sprinkle with green peas on top, 1-2 tablespoons per serving.
Variations.
1. Add carrots, 1 medium. Cut into large pieces, roughly like meat, and add to the pan BEFORE the potatoes.
2. After adding the soy sauce, add the coarsely chopped Bulgarian Bell pepper any color. Then green peas are optional.
3. Add green beans after adding soy sauce. Also without peas.
4. Peel one large tomato and chop it coarsely. Add 5 minutes before cooking.
5. Option without onions, but with ginger. You need a little ginger, no more than 1 tablespoon of finely chopped fresh. The meat is fried in oil with ginger, then potatoes are thrown there and then - as usual.
10/21/2014 10:03:48 AM, trisch
Well, actually, Tonkatsu
Tonkatsu (pork fried in breadcrumbs.)
To make tonkatsu, you will need pork, a boneless portion of the thigh, like a pork chop. This meat should be cut across the grain into slices about 1 cm thick.
These chunks must be slightly beaten off with a hammer or knife handle (lightly! Don't pancake!), Add salt and pepper.
Roll in flour. In order to roll something in flour that cannot fall apart (different meat, fish, shrimp, etc.), I usually use plastic bag... Pour a couple of tablespoons of flour into the bag, add the meat there and shake everything together thoroughly.
Dip the flour-dipped meat in loose a raw egg, and then carefully dump in breadcrumbs.
Pour refined vegetable oil into a deep frying pan in a layer of about 2-3 cm. Heat the oil to a temperature of about 170 degrees.
If you have a cooking thermometer for high temperatures, then measuring is a piece of cake. If there is no thermometer, then gently drip one drop of a raw egg into a frying pan with butter.
If a drop falls to the bottom and lies there for some time before surfacing, the oil temperature is below 160.
If the drop begins to hiss violently and blow bubbles immediately on the surface of the oil, then the oil is overheated, above 180.
If the drop sank into the oil to about half the depth, and then quickly flared up, blowing bubbles, then this is just close to 170 degrees, you can dip the prepared meat into the oil.
It is fried pretty quickly, about 5 minutes for each cutlet. When finished tonkatsu becomes delicious golden color... In the process, it is recommended to turn the cutlet a couple of times for even frying.
Place the finished butter tonkatsu on a paper towel to remove excess oil.
Using a similar technology, you can cook chicken, fish fillets, oysters, and in general quite a lot.
Often tonkatsu is served as a type of donburi - rice topped with some food.
Donburi with tonkatsu is called katsudon.
For a serving, you will need freshly cooked rice, one raw egg, a quarter about onions and the stump is clear, already ready tonkatsu.
Coarsely chop the onion across.
In a small skillet or saucepan, combine about half a cup of dasha, a couple of teaspoons of sugar, and a couple of tablespoons of soy sauce. If there is no dasha, then you can get by with water, then add a pinch of salt and a little more sugar. All proportions are absolutely arbitrary, be guided by your own taste. You can add a little sake or dry white wine (about a tablespoon).
Bring the mixture to a boil and toss in the chopped onion. Simmer for 5-10 minutes over medium heat until the onion is soft.
While the onion is stewing, shake a raw egg in a separate bowl, cut the tonkatsu across, and place the desired amount of hot rice in a bowl or plate.
When the onion is ready, place the chopped tonkatsu on top of the onion in a skillet. Warm up a little.
Top with a loose, raw egg:
Turn the fire on to maximum. As soon as the egg "grabs", turn off the fire. Do not overheat or the egg will get tough!
The resulting product is carefully "drained" over the rice so that the tonkatsu, if possible, retains its shape.
21.10.2014 10:04:14,
The founder of the idea was the parent set with a Japanese pattern.
Besides - Spring, everything is in bloom, in Japan it is just the holiday of cherry blossoms. So I began to embody this idea - I sewed a kimono, made garlands, folded origami birds, printed funny hoku poems and a Russian-Japanese phrasebook, drew as best I could :))) hieroglyphs, bought fans and everything that was needed for refreshments and contests. Everything with the theme "Japan" and "Sakura blossom".
Sushi cake :)
2.Sushi cake
3 shrimp salad
4 crab stick salad
5. Japanese vegetable salad
6 chicken skewers with Japanese spices
7 caviar booters
8 fruit salad with whipped cream, etc.
These are the prizes I bought for contests
Because they celebrated at home, there were few places, and the contests were held at the table.
1. Competition "Japanese policeman". Participants lay down their arms using the origami technique. When the participants have finished their work, it is announced that the winner is the one with the longest weapon.
2. Competition "Russian-Japanese translator". Presenter says Russian word The members are referred to as the Japanese counterpart. For example, kimono robe, kamikaze - suicide, vodka - sake, samurai - warrior, etc.
3. Competition "Sticks-tentacles". The participant is blindfolded, given sticks in his hands. With them, he must "grope" what kind of object (for example, a clothespin, scissors, cream. Apple, etc.) lies in front of him. You can ask leading questions.
4. Contest "Lovely Jap". The presenter asks all the guests sitting at the table to name what they like and what they dislike from the neighbor on the right. For example: "At my neighbor on the right, I love the ear and I do not like the shoulder." After everyone calls it, the host asks everyone to kiss what they like and bite what they don't like.
5. The game "Japanese psychologist". The presenter distributes paper and pencils to the players and begins to ask questions, having previously explained that the answer must be detailed, at least in one sentence:
What do you associate the concept of "forest" with?
What do you associate the concept of "sea" with?
What do you associate with the concept of "cats"?
What do you associate the term "horse" with?
The presenter asks to sign the questionnaire and informs that, according to Japanese psychologists, the forest is associated with life, the sea - with love, cats - with women, horses - with men. Then he reads out the answers, applying these comparisons.
6. Competition "Japanese mom". Both men and women can participate, but it is more fun with men. We attach inflated balloons (preferably large) to the bellies of those wishing to fight for the title of "Japanese mom". The task is to collect sakura petals from the floor. Instead of sakura - paper petals - it will take a lot of petals to literally cover the floor. Whoever has a “belly” burst during the game is eliminated. At the end, we count the number of collected petals. The one who has collected the most petals will become the "Japanese mom".
All the contests were fun for us. They laughed heartily. Well, they took pictures, of course ...
The guests gave us cherry / sakura branches instead of flowers :)))) And, of course, a cast-iron frying pan, tk. we have 6th anniversary - Cast iron wedding!
Interesting and original script parties in japanese style, any company will like it very much.
1. Theme and name of the party. Not just Japan, but funny and even funny Japan. Our party will be stylized as Japan, but not with the exact observance of national characteristics, but with an informal, even humorous approach. Let's call our party, for example, Yapona-party (by analogy with the well-known euphemism "Yapona mother").
2. Entourage.
Interior. We will bring the features of the East into the interior, where our Japanese party will be held, in order to immerse our guests in the atmosphere of the land of the rising sun. You can decorate the room in the style of one symbol of Japan: for example, use many images of dragons - both scary and funny.
Or decorate the room with fans (they can be made from pieces of wallpaper, from Whatman paper and even newspapers, magazines, wrapping paper - in general, from everything that comes to hand) - the fans can be hung on the walls and fixed on curtains, doors, furniture. If the party will be attended only by adults, liberated people, you can take erotic pictures from Japanese anime to create the entourage.
When setting the table, use rectangular plates and Japanese substitute mats instead of round ones. And, of course, you can't do without Japanese music - you can download it here.
Dress code for a Japanese-style party. You can be at a party by anyone: samurai, sumo wrestler, geisha, Japanese robot, kamikaze, dragon, anime hero, etc. The main thing is to make it funnier and in Japanese style. By the way, you can organize a prize for the best and funniest Japanese costume.
3. The course of the event.
We are having a Japanese-style party, and hospitable Japanese people love feasts no less than we do, so we will immediately invite our guests to the table. We will put sticks near the plates, but when everyone is seated at the table, we will offer the guests to “buy” forks, knives and spoons. You will have to pay for cutlery not with money, but with quick wits. The seller of devices says a Japanese proverb, and the buyer must name its Russian (or well-known in the Russian-speaking environment) analogue. Of course, if someone wants to eat with chopsticks, don't insist on a fork.
List of Japanese proverbs and examples:
If dust particles accumulate, they will become mountains. - Water and stone wears away.
He who does not know is as happy as Buddha. - The less you know the better you sleep.
Then - even the fields, even the mountains. - After us, even a deluge.
One stone - two birds. - Kill two birds with one stone.
It is impossible to catch a tiger cub without entering the tiger's den. - To be afraid of wolves - do not go to the forest.
And you will wait for good weather for sea travel... - And there will be a holiday on our street.
The falling drop pierces the stone. - Water wears away a stone.
Having been poisoned with poison, treat yourself with the same poison. - Fight fire with fire.
Having been taught a lesson in hot soup, blowing on cold vegetables. - Burnt in milk, blowing on the water.
In the whole block, only the husband does not know. - The spouse is the last to know about everything.
4. Entertainment, games, contests for a Japanese party.
After dinner, we will offer guests competition program... Its purpose is to identify the best of the best Japanese in our company. We are having a fun Japanese party, so the titles will not be serious either.
1. Competition "Japanese cook"
For those wishing to participate, give out a large pancake or cake and a pack of mayonnaise (doy-pack with a dispenser - fitting). In addition, you will need paper sample sheets with a hieroglyph (to be fair, everyone needs to be given the same hieroglyph). The task is to decorate the dish with a mayonnaise hieroglyph. It is necessary to squeeze the mayonnaise out of the packaging onto the pancake, drawing a hieroglyph according to the sample. Here you can choose two winners: the one who completes the task faster, and the one whose hieroglyph will be the most accurate and beautiful.
2. Competition "Japanese policeman"
The competition is held right at the table, so everyone can be involved. We give out paper to the participants (it can be A4 or larger, white or colored) and offer to fold any weapon out of it for the policeman, using the origami technique.
3. Competition "Japan Mom"
Both men and women can participate, but it is more fun with men. We attach inflated balloons (preferably large) to the bellies of those wishing to fight for the title of "Japanese mom". The task is to collect sakura petals from the floor. Although where did we get such exoticism? Instead of sakura, we take rose petals or cut them out of paper - it will take a lot of petals to literally cover the floor. Whoever has a “belly” burst during the game is eliminated. At the end, we count the number of collected petals. The one who has collected the most petals will become the "Japanese mom". The prize could be a Japanese fan.
4. Competition "Russian-Japanese translator"
The facilitator names a word from the Russian dictionary, and the participants must remember the Japanese word for the same or a similar concept. And let it be not quite an exact analogue, but appropriate in meaning. Humor is welcome. The most active and resourceful "Japanese scholar" is given the title "Russian-Japanese translator" and a prize - a Russian-Japanese phrasebook.
Examples of words and analogues:
The mistress is a geisha.
Paper plastic - origami.
The suicide is a kamikaze.
Stabbing is hara-kiri.
Dressing gown - kimono.
Vodka - sake.
Hooray! - Banzai!
The letter is a hieroglyph.
The fat man is a sumo wrestler.
Pet - Tamagotchi.
The warrior is a samurai.
Vanka-vstanka - Daruma.
Poem - hokku.
Cartoon - anime.
Bouquet - ikebana.
Mat - tatami.
Crossword puzzle - sudoku.
Mustard is wasabi.
4. The game "Japanese theater espromt"
At the end of the contests, you can continue the Japanese party with an impromptu theater, but not a simple one, but a "Japanese" one. The presenter reads the text expressively. Actors, when mentioning their hero, utter a line and reproduce this or that movement in accordance with the text. Seven actors and one presenter are participating.
Heroes and lines:
Sakura (pleadingly): "Tokase is not ikebana!" (note: this means “just don’t make me ikebana!”).
Sparrow (proudly): "Japanese bird!"
Horses (two people) (sad): "We are bad luck."
Grass (fervently): "It's ticklish!"
Samurai (two people) (menacingly): "Banzai!"
Samurai grew in the endless Japanese steppe beautiful SAKURA... The branches of SAKURA swayed. A little SPARROW was sitting in the branches of SAKURA. Two purebred Japanese MOUNTAINS were grazing nearby. And below them the juicy Japanese GRASS grew and spread. Oh, how she prostrated! The stallions nibbled the GRASS vigorously and very greedily. The GRASS at the same time tenderly tickled the abdomen of the stallions. MOUNTAINS whinnied rather.
Two Japanese SAMURAYA Tamagotchi and Toshiba appeared in the steppe. SAMURAI Tamagotchi was a sumo wrestler, and samurai Toshiba was a karate fighter. What a sumo wrestler Tamagotchi is! What a karateka Toshiba!
The two SAMURAYA hated each other and constantly bullied. And now they grimaced and teased each other. SPARROW, looking at this, laughed, chirping. SAMURAI threatened the SPARROW, and he flew away from SAKURA.
SAMURAI Tamagotchi and Toshiba saw the RIDERS. SAMURAI wanted to ride the MOUNTAINS and made an attempt to do so. And one more try, and another. Not immediately, but SAMURAI coped and saddled the obstinate MOUNTAINS. The stallions beat their hooves impatiently and whinnied in displeasure. SAMURAI fidgeted nervously on their horses, wanting to fight the enemy.
They parted for different sides and, leaping from their place, they rushed towards each other. The Tamagotchi hit Toshiba and Toshiba fell off his ROCKER. While falling, Toshiba bit the Tamagotchi. Now SAMURAI Tamagotchi fell from his ROCKER. The defeated SAMURAI lay on the GRASS. Above them towered the beautiful SAKURA, sadly bowing its branches. The SPARROW flew past, looked at the lying SAMURAIs and fell to the ground. SAKURA was left alone. Suddenly thunder rumbled and lightning struck SAKURA. She fell noisily.
Epilogue. A broken, crooked SAKURA grew in the endless Japanese steppe. A plucked SPARROW was sitting on it. GRASS stretched beneath the tree, crumpled and sluggish. In the GRASS lay SAMURAI Tamagotchi and Toshiba and hugged each other. MOUNTAINS nibbled the GRASS and whinnied with joy. Peace reigned in the endless Japanese steppe.
What to treat.