Writer looks at Hamilton, Ontario's Ciinadianiapa鹏seCulturaにC柳tre
ByVERNHOWARO
HAMILTON, Ont. A.健
to theぶcmidicinJcl'paneSeC"l-. turdトCentre :is歸moving (DCJdkwarcT in time , a rきturn' t6 the eraofSdmura」andSho-
In fact,, most evenings, the forme1^ Onぉoixt Schoolbuildings ひt the c6rnef and Fennell and Uか各r Wellington are afl^e -wはh theビsights, sounds and smells of feudar Jひpcirt.
The anpma of GWoken Ter卜 yqld drifts out ofthゃcoo"ldng cldss ancttantaUzぉthe nostrils:... :
Winded grunts and heavy thudsゃf bodies sld沐ing the nnat resound from the gym \Vherer the martialarts war-riorV^—ぉothmaleandfきnaale 一are won king out
Overheadにa Kさndo kn'igf^t peers down rpenacingly through his caged helmet, heavy stiok at the ready. A glimpse through hislong robe reveals aTorontoAAひple Leafs jersey.
-When ciedinig enrolment forced the scfioolto close Us doors 。 few^ yearsqgo, many thought thecommunはywould be stuck wけh awtViおelephant. Two men however, saw it as an ctpportunity.
Tim Oikひw a and Jim Kado-naga qreboth tenacious. For years they had been trying to sellth.elocalJapanese Cana-dianCiti之ens' Association on the need for such a centre^
They sawけas havinq a dualJDurpose, a place where ser>ior members of the Japa-nesecommunけy could drop in, relax arid erVjoy themselves and a focalpoint for pronnoting 、heir traditiondlculture amcmg non-Jt邻cmese pecples.
The two major hurdles)ere mon6y and a suはablelocCitK on. "We hadachひicebeきen Vincent Massey and Onteora School,which >A^ere bothさkited ぉr closing qround thゃsame tirnぎ,sayさTirn..
"Aftet touring both buildings, wesawカnteorf;i cis the bきUer alterriatiye.は'srnore centrdlandifight on th兮bus routes,vvhidiis an j'mpprtant consideration for our seniors (;oming in from allparts of
the region.*' ' :ThにbiggesぃseUing point, h:wever,wqs the facility itself. "On • a ヒmo re tot-cm in $tucture them Vincent AAassey. Itslower, wood beam ceilings and sense of spaciousness seem more Japanese. Besides, the gym islarge and modern, and therefore ideal for our mar〖ia1orts programs.
So, wゅmuch excitement ancT the hさlp of a Winkir'ho grant, the project waslaunch-Id.
"Our bulWfng is a going concern every day of the Wき/'says Geor^ej'keqia, the Centre: s m.anagerHpr的ldenそ. •'We're open from 7 Jo10 or 10:30 wee knights and both mornIrtgs dncraきm6cms <Jn thew的icend.Wは"t;hev。i"i—y of j^no^rams we offer* there." simply no other way tケjam att ft." 、 G的r9edo"sn,t、さxagg,i"atも. jss。methifig foralnnost e very one. As 'weひas ゃリrses,in Jcipaniese 'drほ and crafts, the fair brochure lIsU such Western p ass ions a$ Bridさe, Eudire, ,gcflf instruction andゃvらr bal.iroom fdapcing. Or, if you'recontenr^pldting d hoiid ay in Jひpqn, Why not try conversationalJapanese?
One of the most popular classes is ikebana, ci un〖que Easteirりsiy,le of flower arranging, dating bad< atleast 50。 years.
iMrs. 1sako'lnouye, the Instructor, cT diffident, soft-spoken lady, explains through cm iiv terpreter the emphas^is on beauty and nature in Ikebana •It is almost孫e music or try, a way of shoWing our feelings in art , in this《ase, throuah flowさrs."
は's evident the message has touched a responsive chord in her students. Their free-flowing creations appear striking.
Another coリrseca川ng for a deft stroke and delicate tQuch is Sumトe, 0 stylized form of brush painting on rice paper.
Fumiye Toyotci,a study in concentration, strokes her irtky brush aなoss the ,ge. She is illustrating varieties 0ffl0wer 'petals to the Students:
'■It's a very old art," she says, wはh cm interesting history. 1bejieve our peoplelearned は from the Chmese mainlcJnd.U's probably an outgrowth ofゅihさrn Chinese painting. So many of their tjrt stylesdiiftecT into our culture ancl,ovW a —od of tirne, w ere ass i roilate cI."
A black irtkstickisswばled periodicaHy'm the hollo\y of a stone or ''suzuif'. At the same t;mi5, vyoter is carefiJly added and stirred in. The point can then be thinned or 麵Hened as desired.
T" diverse brush strokes and texture of the rice paper also give tfie artist scope for personalcreativity. Of the12 paintingslai- out to dryar-ound the room, no two are olike.
In an upstairs dossroom, H is mera11/ a cose of "all systems Go". The board game most often referred to as Go is thought to have .originoted
In Chiharnorethan 4;000 y的TS、 ago. Over the centuries, however, the Japanese have mo d if I It.
ゆeoretica1physicist by ddy, is ao dvid pひpU 6f the game, ,as wellas its teacher.
"Go is played on a board <x>nsi sting of verticdl and
horほontal.lines," he. says, whはe settingひp for the another encounter.
"Blapl^ and white) pieces or stone qre used by the tw6 players. TheIdea is to capture 0$ much.terrU。ryaspos-sible.は'sd fascinatingganriさ <DUt bさwarned,'' hesdd. "It: cdn become addlcltVe."
Stan Oilliams, one of his stリdertt opponents, agrees. He drives from Toronto every Tuesday evening to play the game.
The ceramic arts shop in the oldef of the ' Centre's : two building offers j^h:e best facil-
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VOL 44 — MO, 96
"NEW YOl^K. — Thるworld record price for a single U.S. postage stamp was toppled twicerecen、tly as the Hawひi卜 cm stamp collection of Japanese industrialist RyoheiIshi-■kawa went on auction here.
Sotheby Parke Bernet; Stamp Auctron Co. sold the first of two two-cent ''Missionary:' stamps for $210,000, That was topfied by the very next "lot" wはh a winnina bid of $230,000.
The Sotheby Parke Bernet subsid"iary said the previous recordprite for a U.S.stひmfj was多135,006 paid in Mdy 1979化r a1918 24-cent air-mail$tanr^p on which an ciir-plane was uriin陶tJonally printed upside down.
The $230,000 purchase was by a CqlifQmia philatelist who would revealonjy thqt he y^as acting for somぉne else.
T:he$2i0,000 sale was to Josef3h Kro,は,president of the Nationalphilatelic yMvisofs Cc^rport,!on of New York Cijy.
their m。*ney, the b。yers each gained possessU^n of a tiny rectangle of tissue paper that had b^eenipasted cor-Ye$pondenc6 mailed td the Unはed States byrrtissidna— in/l85i and i852 from what was -then the Kingdomcif Hawoiに
The由mpsnriost commonly were used for mailing ney/s-popers kn6wn to exist today; six in pfivcite hands.
TUESDAY, DEC16,1980
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•'riawanan Missionary" stomps that went on sale consisted of 27 skimps of various denominations, valued currently at more than $2 million. They were among th^ first produced in Hawan.
Vvho,s supposed to. be a ''sLApenbram," Rot) Hyodo just seems !ike an average guy who struggles through university with a 72 qverage.
'リwoリldn'tcallmyself a sリpen bra in.I've hqcT maples in the50s,', s。id the 23:year掘 University of Waterloo chemicalenaineerina student, "rd say I'm of average inteir卜 gence — and1work hard at
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But Hyodo's well^on his vyay to possibly becoming Canada's」'sひperbrain" (n q contest sponsored by Mensa, the international0r。anizat'i0n of except(onalty. gびted indivi-
duals; and Today magazine.
'He wds one of 23 people accross Canada who scored highest of' the more- than は,OOQ contestant who answered "'intelligence testing questions in the Oct. 25 ecHti-on ofToday.
Eleven of the 23 were from Ontario one I Hyodo,living here during hisリniveまy work term,リis the only Metro winner.
Recently he completed the contest's second phase by writing three more tests. He coリld move on.to became one of four regionalfinalists. Mo re testing willthen determine who's Canada's ',si^perbrain.,'
,crters Of Japan
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.VANC01JVER.」Waters of Japan is an exhibit at the Vance|uver A、quafium featuring the relがionship between the Japanese people and the if seas, and freshwater, pr particular interest are theKoi "~ねighly-prized, ciDlorfu!, ornamental carp 二 arid th"apanese spider crabs — three feeぃinvrtdtlL I;leld overuntはthe end ori^eceinber. Daily10 a.m. to 5 p m.
Japcm poU shov^^schndreiVhdve higii 6va,utioiii of their fathers
i"OKYO. — A A ore the in tw 6-thirds of elementary school phildren polled thinにtha, their fathers work.,'v^ har"d,' while oriiyぉs than 5 pぉent of them give a-negative assessment toward the;nrv, qccordirig to 6 survey relぉsed beforS the Lpbor Thanksgiving Day recently*
The survey conducted fc>y the private Ku.mon Arithmetic Ishii^awa's collection off^esearch Center covered o
totalof】,918 pupils of both sexes in the卅th and sixth grodes who orelearning oriUv metic at the center's schools in eightmojor cities in Jopon.
According to the survey, 71 percent of the children polled
$aid tfiattjiejr fathers;' jobs are 'Ve(y .difficuU" Haヌf of them said thqt their fathers' jol^s irv/olve " much brain work" and 40 oercent of them "much mentalyvork,"
Only1.8 percent of them soicMh。t fathers' jobs ore "not interesting" ond 3 j>erc"lof therTV have "easy jobs," the survey showecJ-
As for how dfatherspencls his holidays, :57 percent of the polled said that the^ fathers res〖at home, followed by "going shopping" and "going cut with fanrTily mfibers for play,' {35 percent eadv)
While 37 percent of the
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