Japan In-Depth Learning 1: Japanese Basic Manners and Rules
Start: 09-05-2026
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Section 6: Basic manners at Japanese traditional accommodation Ryokan
23. INTRO_Ryokan
24. slippers and tokonoma rules
25. yukata
26. How to take a bath
27. Other
Section 7: OUTRO for the whole course
28. Other
Title: Ryokan
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So, when I was born, and I was 6 months old, my grandmother started a new project. They had a big garden with an old house. They sold half og the garden, destroyed the house, and for a few months, I lived in a wooden house, until we moved into the new house, which was built during that period.
I also lived in a more than 100-year-old Kosher Butter factory built from wood, in Blenheim, New Zealand, in 2008.
When I was a child, a lot of times, we were also asked to try out how it feels to sleep on the floor in the Summer, sometimes, also on a very thin mattress.
The only problem was that my mattress had some (3-4) needles inside, so I always had to be careful how I moved. Anyway, it was a Fakir experience...
PS. I do not remember exactly where, but once, I had to try out a real Fakir bead as well as a child.
In Debrecen, where I was born, in the 1990s, the Flower Festival on 20 of August it used to have giant cars decorated with real dried flowers; those dried flowers are just like a Fakir experience, and several times, I was put on the flowers to take a photo. That time, I used to wear very short trousers, so I felt all the flowers as needles in my tights...
Title: Fakir
Source: https://stock.adobe.com/dk/search?k=fakir
Title: 1990 Flower Festival Debrecen
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Back to the Ryokan experience. The mattresses or rugs that you can see in the next picture, we used to have a lot, and we used them when we went to the strand, and we had sunbath over them. Those are anyway from plants
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Eating and sitting on the floor, you can find this habit in several other cultures as well. So why try out a Ryokan, as it's a full pack, what I mean, the Architecture, the food, the garden, the decorations, the textiles, the patterns, it comes in a very specific way. And when so many things are organized in so specific ways, they contain a lot of history, culture, and knowledge. So when you stay in a Ryokan hotel, you learn all these things without feeling educated. By just acknowledging all these combinations, you learn.
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Title: tatami mat
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Title: shoji doors
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My very first job in Poland, in 2011, I worked for a window producer company.
What more can you try out in a Ryokan? Communal bath
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I come from Hungary, Debrecen, this city, and the nearby city, Hajduszoboszlo, are famous for the spas. I spent years in every season in those hot spring spas. I also took my kids there and their father as well.
Title: Debrecen, Hungary
Source: https://www.debrecen.hu/en/tourist/places/aquaticum-spa
Title: Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary
Source: https://go-to.rest/en/tour/odnodennyi-tur-do-spa-kurortu-gaidusoboslo/
Title: Hot Springs in New Zealand
Source: https://www.broadsheet.com.au/new-zealand/travel/article/where-soak-south-guide-hot-springs-new-zealand
In 2008, I also visited Hot Springs on the South Island in New Zealand.
Title: yukata
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We used to have wagasa, sensu. As a child, we had to make a lot os sensu as well. Plus, I have a lot of kanazashi. About furoshiki, my grandmother showed me a lot of times how to fold textiles to get this kind of bag.
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As a teenager, I used to walk whole Summers in similar high platforms shoes. We also called them Sandalias... szandal or papucs. If it had only held around the toes, then it was more likely called papaucs, and if something held the hills as well, then szandal.
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There was a period when harmonica doors were very popular in Hungary; several of my family members had them.
Title: tokonoma
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Title: tokonoma
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When I was around 8-10 years old, I started to study about bonsais and small gardens. I had one plant from the botanical garden shop, and I had a book about how to design small gardens, Zen gardens.
Title: Calligraphy
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Title: Calligraphy
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Title: hanging scrolls
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Title: hanging scrolls
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So in primary school, we studied different calligraphies, and still nowadays, I like to make some nice pictures.
During my first university time (2004-2008), around 2005-2006, I had an extra afternoon activity, when I studied flower organization.
Title: Ikebana
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In the Japanese culture, the flower composition inside the tokonoma area, it is called ikebana.
There are hundreds of combinations of ikebana, and all have a meaning. It is very similar to Psychology, as the tokonoma is a praying or meditation place, where the decoration has support role in this way of mindfulness.
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