Bill Text: HI HR11 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Congratulating The University Of Hawaii At Mnoa's Center For Japanese Studies Way Of Tea Center On Jaku'an's 50th Anniversary.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-02-15 - Resolution adopted in final form. [HR11 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-HR11-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.R. NO.

11

THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

congratulating the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Center for Japanese Studies Way of Tea Center on JAKU'AN's 50th anniversary.

 

 

 


     WHEREAS, JAKU'AN (寂庵), "hut of tranquility", is a traditional Japanese tea house set in the Sei'en (清苑), "garden of purity", that has been on the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH) campus since 1972, where it has helped transmit Japanese culture and aesthetics beyond the borders of Japan to Hawaiʻi; and

 

     WHEREAS, JAKU'AN has been the location for the lessons and practice of the UH Way of Tea Club, founded in 1967, providing thousands of UH students with the opportunity to become acquainted with the Japanese Way of Tea, chanoyu (茶の湯), one of Japan's most important cultural traditions that has influenced the country's art, architecture, philosophy, cuisine, letters, literature, and even politics for centuries; and

 

     WHEREAS, this time-honored structure was erected after Dr. Genshitsu Sen, formerly Sen Sōshitsu, the 15th generation Grand Tea Master of the Urasenke Chadō Tradition, commissioned the building of JAKU'AN with its materials and craftspersons all brought over from Japan; and

 

     WHEREAS, Dr. Sen has introduced the world to Chadō, "The Way of Tea", and donated the structure together with endowed funding to UH to carry out his life's mission of fostering "peacefulness through a bowl of tea" and, along with the Urasenke Hawaiʻi Foundation, continues to support and advocate for JAKU'AN; and

 

     WHEREAS, in 2023, Dr. Sen celebrated his 100th birthday and continues to educate students in Hawaiʻi and promote worldwide understanding and peace through the teaching of tea ceremony and JAKU'AN; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by The House of Representatives of the Thirty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaiʻi, Regular Session of 2024, that this body hereby congratulates the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Center for Japanese Studies Way of Tea Center on JAKU'AN's 50th anniversary, honors its role in fostering peace through the Chadō practice, commemorates the 100th birthday of Dr. Genshitsu Sen, commends the Urasenke Hawaiʻi Foundation for their sustaining support for JAKU'AN, and expresses its warmest aloha and best wishes for continued success in all future endeavors.

 

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title: 

Jaku'an; University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Center for Japanese Studies; Way of Tea Center; 50th Anniversary

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