Fort Wayne Cherry Blossom Festival
Toyoharu ‘T' Tamura, 65, Fort Wayne
26/06/08 10:35
Promoter of Japanese culture, including wearing a kimono
By Rosa Salter Rodriguez | The Journal Gazette
Those who visited the Cherry Blossom Festival at Fort Wayne’s Freimann Square this month were confronted by a gray sky, cold wind and intermittent stinging rain that threatened to turn icy at any moment.
Overseeing the festivity was a diminutive, gray-haired man in a dark brown kimono covered by a formal blue-black haori, or cloak. Toyoharu Tamura of Fort Wayne is a transplanted Japanese businessman who has taken on the task of helping organize cultural events for the region’s Japanese-American community through the Japanese-American Association of Indiana.
By Rosa Salter Rodriguez | The Journal Gazette
Those who visited the Cherry Blossom Festival at Fort Wayne’s Freimann Square this month were confronted by a gray sky, cold wind and intermittent stinging rain that threatened to turn icy at any moment.
Overseeing the festivity was a diminutive, gray-haired man in a dark brown kimono covered by a formal blue-black haori, or cloak. Toyoharu Tamura of Fort Wayne is a transplanted Japanese businessman who has taken on the task of helping organize cultural events for the region’s Japanese-American community through the Japanese-American Association of Indiana.
Toyoharu with his wife Mariko.
Photos by Clint Keller | The Journal Gazette
Blooming Interest
14/04/08 08:34
Origami, anime and kimonos, all part of Japanese way of life, thrive at Cherry Blossom Festival
By Abby Slutsky | The Journal Gazette
By Abby Slutsky | The Journal Gazette
Despite the gray day outside, Arts United Center and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art shone with bright colors Sunday during the second annual Cherry Blossom Festival.
The festival offered the hundreds of attendees the chance to experience traditional Japanese cultural elements, such as bonzai, origami, calligraphy and kimonos, and the more modern cultural element – anime.
Miki Morgan and the Minyo Dancers perform Sunday afternoon at the Arts United Center
during the Cherry Blossom Festival. The festival celebrates Japanese art and culture.
Clint Keller | The Journal Gazette