Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Bennett's in Japan Day 3 - 2011/09/10

morning tea at the Miyakoda"s


Kristin tries on her flower vase/hat from Miyakoda-san

I like GIn from North Carolina!

Miyakoda-san & Sanpei-san (Yuri's Father)

Rabbit manju = sweet cakes made of rice. This is the year of the rabbit.

Japanese Taxi's...just like the real thing only smaller

Lunch at the office. kanpai!


Tamachi, the area of Tokyo where we had our Japanese wedding party

View of "To The Herbs" the Italian Restaurant in GranPark, a plaza designed by Keikan Sekkei in collaboration with Robert Zion, and the venue for the party
It is so hard to find a place in Tokyo that has an outdoor dining terrace, and the fact that this restaurant has one is largely due to the fact that Miyakoda-san brought in an American landscape architect to help guide the design as they developed the project.

Pre-party toasts

The full Benne-koda Clan

Kanpai!!!

Surely she just said something flattering(?)

My turn to butcher the Japanese language. At least it was only 3 sentences, which took 14 minutes to get out.

Tomoyuki(cousin), Yoichi(cousin), Sho(cousin's son), Kinoto, & Aya

Kinoto stealing drinks




"I built this"

Kayo-chan (Aya's cousin & Watanabe-san's wife) and her father (Aya's uncle)

Kanda-san a friend from LSU


Kinoto and Yuri served at MC's for the party and kept things rolling...while I made sure everything was running smoothly at the bar

The spread

Pouring beer for Masayoshi (Aya's Uncle on her moms side). Pouring beer for your guests is a big part of a Japanese wedding.


1 for you 2 for me...Pouring a beer for Takeheko (Aya's Cousin - son of Masayoshi)

Yoichi, Aya's cousin on her mom's side (Akiyoshi's son)

Mom & dad talking with Mr. Kano - a friend of Miyakoda-sans from college (mountain club)

Abe-san & Masayoshi (Yamanaka-san) celebrating

Aya's turn to pour beers


Aya's uncle on her mothers side - Akiyoshi-san

Showing pictures from the wedding in NC

Scott with Yui (Yoichi's daughter)

Dad's turn

obviously she does not like people

perhaps I should be worried?

Talking baseball with Sho

Aya & Kinoto on the beach

Me & dad


time for the toasts




anyone know this 3rd world dictator?


"To The Herbs" - where the beer flows like wine


Amano-san (Nobuko) a friend from LSU

Kinoto brought the house down. WIsh I understood the other 87% of it







Takehiko finished things out with a traditional Japanese ceremony called "sanbonjime" where everyone claps 3 times x 3 times in unison to end a celebration
Arigatou Gozaizasu! You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here

The party crew. Yukio (far right) gives us the rock star send off we deserve.

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