| The annual Japan Fest is the largest celebration of Japanese culture in the Gulf South. It’s a day to enjoy traditional dance groups, martial arts demonstrations, tours of our Japanese art collection, a fashion show, and much more, including Japanese food. Many visitors come to the festival in Japanese dress, wearing everything from traditional kimonos to Pokemon costumes. Features exhibitions and demonstrations of calligraphy, paintings, origami, Ikebana, anime and other arts and crafts, demonstrations of martial arts, dances, songs and instruments, fashions, kimonos, performances of the New Orleans Japanese Weekend School, tea ceremony and candy sculpture by Candy 5. |
