Japanese Customs (1960)

M, Ss and C, Us of a young woman, Kasuko Ohki, in traditional Japanese costume of kimono, performing a Japanese dance with two paper fans at the finishing school she attends in Sevenoaks, Kent. Other pupils are sitting watching in rather formal clothes as she dances on a bamboo mat floor with a Japanese screen behind. M, S of Kasuko and another girl in Japanese costume, Kawther Hamdi from Bagdad, Baghdad, kneeling on mats on the floor as Mrs OrrEwing, who runs the school enters, also in traditional costume; commentator tells us she spent seven years in Japan, and is able to demonstrate to Miss Ohki and her other pupils, the 700 year old traditional tea ceremony or ChaNoYu as it s called. As she kneels down, the two girls bow to her, then M, Ss and C, Us as Mrs OE folds a red cloth and cleans the teascoop slowly and deliberately and spoons the tea into a small bowl. Then she takes some water from a large jug with a ladle, puts it into a brass pot, then takes water from the pot and puts that into