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Mami Keister and the Japanese Ensemble. Four hours a week in a windowless room. Surrounded by talented music students and a couple of EALC grad. students. Over five semesters I learned to sing, dance, and read Japanese musical notation. It was a joy. The study continues here in Japan with a dance teacher. More on this soon. Let's just say that I have learned to tie my own obi and yukata.

2003. Miyajima and Haniwa Koen. I returned to Japan several times while in Colorado and pursuing my M.A. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Japanese). Now it is time to return for a good long time to continue the research and language studies."

2005. Graduate friends from our CUEAGA conference, UC Boulder.

Eaton Hall, my EALC home. Looking up the bell tower before plunging inside.

2005. In a workshop with "Kineya", a minyo (the traditional folk dances of Japan), group visiting from Tokyo. Here, I'm on the kotsuzumi rehearsing for our semester performance. It was a great introduction to minyo dance, singing and reading Japanese musical notation, and playing kotsuzumi.

2005. With an "old friend" at the Natural History Museum on campus, my main work-study job while in graduate school.

My presentation (Adobe PDF file) about Saké labels, "Saké Labels: Looking and Longing". Presented February 4, 2005 at Columbia University's graduate conference and at the University of Colorado at Boulder's graduate conference (CUEAGA) on March 6, 2005. More about this on the saké page.

2005. Some of my wonderful UCAR-aikido students-scientists and computer programmers from NCAR and UCAR, undergraduates, and a few civilians. We trained together twice a week. It was my great fortune to be their sensei for five years.

© 2007. Comments to Patricia Yarrow
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