Chizuko Kimura

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CHIZUKO KIMURA

Tea Master of the Urasenke School
Kimono Maker

Chizuko Kimura was born in Mie Prefecture and when she was seven years old her parents moved the family to Kyoto.

Today Kyoto is today a modern bustling city of 1.5 million inhabitants and the main cultural city of Japan with around 2,000 temples and shrines, but in the past it was the capital of the entire country. Traditional cultures such as the tea ceremony, geishas and women in kimonos are
more in evidence here than any other city in modern Japan today.

Chizuko Kimura lived in Kyoto until coming to England in 1991 and still makes frequent visits to see her parents.

Mission

Higher Education
1966-1968 Tezukayama University, Nara

Qualifications
Certificate for the highest grade of kimono making
Tea Ceremony masters certificate
Teacher of Japanese language

Employment
1974-1993
Self employed making kimonos for private clients

Tea Ceremony

Japan
1965-1973
Performed tea ceremony annually at the Honenin Temple in Kyoto
1961-1971
Studied tea ceremony at the Urasenke School, Kyoto
1970
Obtained tea ceremony certificate and achieved the title of ‘Tea Master’

United Kingdom
1997 Tea Ceremony performance for the Scottish Japanese Consulate in front of 150 invited guests at the George Hotel in Edinburgh
1996 Tea Ceremony performance for students of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at Sotheby's Education Studies Institute
1995 Tea Ceremony performance at Fortnum & Masons pre Christmas
‘valued customer’ sales evening
1995 Tea Ceremony performance for the ‘ITV Morning Show’, recorded by Granada Television at a Japanese restaurant in London
1995 Tea Ceremony performance for a Japanese evening at Churchill House School, Ramsgate, Kent
1995 Tea Ceremony performance for Sky Television Travel Channel,
recorded at Thames Television Studios, Teddington
1995 Tea ceremony at a Japanese Festival in Cornwall
1994 Tea Ceremony performance for students of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at Sotheby's Education Studies Institute
1994 Tea Ceremony performances for Japanese Cultural weekend at Pleasure Island, Liverpool
1993 Tea Ceremony workshop for a multi-cultural group at North Westminster's "Orient Expressions" week
1992 Performed Tea Ceremony for Holiday Inns 40th Birthday celebration at the Royal Albert Hall hosted by actor Robert Lindsay
1991 Registered at the Japanese Embassy as a kimono maker, demonstrator of how to wear the kimono and Tea Master from the Urasenke School, Kyoto

Contact Information

Address:

Chizuko Kimura
48c Primrose Gardens
Belsize Park
London
NW3 4TP
UK

Phone Number:

020 7722 2065

Fax Number:

020 7722 2065

Email Address:

info@chizukokimura.co.uk