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- 148 -＜Kneeling formally (Seiza)＞ ＜Picking up the main cake with a chopsticks＞Starting with learning the individual parts of tea ceremony, the studentscould learn the way of greeting with a fan and of drinking powdered green teaand eating cakes, and could master the series of the ‘Procedure of Bonryaku’after 12 or 13 classes. It became easy for the students to do ‘the handling of afukusa’ and ‘use of a tea whisk’ they had struggled with for a long time. Theycan be able to make fine foams with the tea whisk, serve a cup of tea smoothlyand gave a closing greeting. In the videotapes, the wonderful performance ofeach student was recorded. We cannot believe their first struggles.The following is the essay by a student from Malaysia who took this coursein 1995:”Painful!” “Pain in my legs!””Bitter!” “Are we going to drinkthis every week?” These were thewords I gave when I tastedpowedered green tea for the firsttime. I thought the powderedgreen tea tasted good when I putin a spoonful sugar and a milk.But my complaint didn’t last long.From the second class, I startedfinding the tea ceremony ＜A model performance by Ms.Takei---so-called ‘Takei Magic’＞pleasurable and interesting. I developed a fondness for tea ceremony class byclass and I would study as hard as I could to the end of the course.’This course was started as a general education course for foreign students(2 credit) and then became a subject of ‘Japanese Culture’ (2 credits). Since