The wife of Japan's Government Prime Minister Akie Abe on Tuesday evening professed being "utterly impressed" with the cultivation, in Romania, of an ancient Japanese tradition such as the tea ceremony and promised that once back to her country she will share this fact with the Japanese youth.
As a Japanese I am utterly impressed to see all these girls dressed in kimonos and who have learnt to celebrate the tea ceremony here, so far away, geographically speaking from my country. Unfortunately these days, in Japan there are not so many young people to learn the Tea Ceremony, however, when I get back I will tell everywhere that in Romania, such a far away country, people learn our culture that we should also be proud of, Akie Abe said at Romania's National Art Museum (MNAR).
Japan Prime Minister's wife inaugurated, together with Culture Minister Lucian Romascanu, the Tea Room, as part of the future Oriental Art Gallery of MNAR, stating that she wishes Japanese art oeuvres will soon be on the museum's walls.
Akie Abe expressed hope that the visit of her husband, Japan's gov't Prime Minister, to Romania contribute to the development of the two countries' bilateral relations.
In his turn, Minister Lucian Romascanu affirmed being "very honoured" by the Japanese guests' visit to Romania and saluted the accomplishment, through the inauguration of the Tea Room, with the support of private partners, of the first stage of "a successful MNAR project, the first part of the future Oriental Art Gallery."
"Even if political life tends to be tumultuous in this corner of the world, the places we have seen today - the Village Museum and the National Art Museum - are quiet places where we can find ourselves and we can enjoy the beauties that the Romanian cultural life and not only can grant us," Romascanu further said.
Akie Abe subsequently participated in a tea ceremony, alongside the wife of Japan's Ambassador in Bucharest, Sachiko Ishii, with disciples, teachers and masters of Urasenke Japanese School in Bucharest.
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