{"id":431,"date":"2014-04-18T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T02:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=431"},"modified":"2014-04-18T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T02:42:35","slug":"new-apprentices-start-their-first-year-at-the-kodo-apprentice-centre-by-michiko-chida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20140418_431.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;New Apprentices Start Their First Year at the Kodo Apprentice Centre&#8221; by Michiko Chida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20140418_431.html\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\" width=\"100\" share=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" ><\/fb:like><\/div>        <div class=\"wsbl_twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20140418_431.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;New Apprentices Start Their First Year at the Kodo Apprentice Centre&#8221; by Michiko Chida\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p>The entrance ceremony for the Year 33 (2014-2015) class of Kodo Apprentices was held on April 6 and now one week has passed. They are probably so nervous about beginning this new lifestyle, but all of the 12 new apprentices have been doing well. I will introduce their\u00a0week of firsts with some pictures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05000.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-928 aligncenter\" alt=\"Photo: Michiko Chida\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05000-340x254.jpeg\" width=\"340\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dance lesson with Chieko Kojima<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05067.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-929\" alt=\"Photo: Michiko Chida\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05067-340x453.jpeg\" width=\"340\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05102.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-930\" alt=\"Photo: Michiko Chida\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05102-340x254.jpeg\" width=\"340\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ranjo-san\u2019s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">shinobue<\/span> (bamboo flute) making workshop<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05159.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-931\" alt=\"Photo: Michiko Chida\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05159-340x254.jpeg\" width=\"340\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Taiko lesson with Tomohiro Mitome<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(They do not use <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">bachi<\/span> (drumsticks) in their first lesson: they use Japanese fans and towels.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05447.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-932\" alt=\"Photo: Michiko Chida\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05447-340x453.jpeg\" width=\"340\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rice field work (Selecting rice seeds)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05486.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-933\" alt=\"Photo: Michiko Chida\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05486-340x254.jpeg\" width=\"340\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Standing by the rice fields and singing a song facing out to sea<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05492.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-934\" alt=\"Photo: Michiko Chida\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSC05492-340x254.jpeg\" width=\"340\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kiyoko Oi teaches all the new apprentices\u00a0how to make chopsticks from one shared bamboo stick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entrance ceremony for the Year 33 (2014-2015) class of Kodo Apprentices was held on April 6 and now one week has passed. They are probably so nervous about beginning this new lifestyle, but all of the 12 new apprentices have been doing well. I will introduce their\u00a0week of firsts with some pictures. Dance lesson with Chieko Kojima Ranjo-san\u2019s shinobue (bamboo flute) making workshop Taiko lesson with Tomohiro Mitome (They do not use bachi (drumsticks) in their first lesson: they use Japanese fans and towels.) Rice field work (Selecting rice seeds) Standing by the rice fields and singing a song facing out to sea Kiyoko Oi teaches all the new &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20140418_431.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,76,48,53,77,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}