Japan on $10 a Day
--- Tea ceremonies, anime, Taiko drumming and more await at the Missouri Botanical Garden ---
riverfronttimes.com | September 1, 2004
....Highlights include samurai martial-arts demonstrations (koryu)....Japanese culture, you can watch a re-enactment of the tea scene from The Karate Kid, Part II -- a ceremony called chado -- for an extra $10. Then at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday night, A.J. Trujillo from Star Clipper Comics presents a full-length adult anime film (all Japanese animation ain't Pokémon, so kids have to sit this one out).
"Certainly there will be those at the Japanese Festival whose understanding of Japanese culture tends toward the superficial and simplistic," Lowry concedes, "and whose view of Japan seems to be dominated by pneumatic-breasted, purple-hair anime characters -- I have seen some purple hair in Japan; cleavage of anime proportions is noticeably lacking.
