Focus Japan

Screening of NHK documentary films on Japan’s history, literature, art, culture and heritage. Organised with the support of NHK World and Embassy of Japan, New Delhi 

Tsuruko’s Tea Journey in Germany | (50 minutes; 2020; English and with subtitles)
Hanzawa Tsuruko is a master of chaji, a tea ceremony that starts with an exquisitely prepared kaiseki meal and finishes with matcha tea served from the heart. A chaji can last for four hours and is a spiritual process, in which the participants remove themselves from the mundane world, seeking harmony and inner peace.  Tsuruko has been traveling around Japan to encounter new people and share chaji with them. In autumn 2019, at the age of 76, she set off on a tea journey across Germany. The film chronicles her month-long odyssey