Lecture: Mr. Sohtatsu Ohta

P Room Salon; organized by GK Tech this time
Mr. Ohta is a director of Yuuhisai Koudoukan Foundation, active studying Japanese culture from the view of food especially in the field of sweets. Parallelly active in various aspects such as holding a unique tea ceremony party for propagating and the succession of the culture.
At the lecture, he talked about his activities and findings of the culture in many areas in Japan by showing many pictures. He explained that the ways serving rice cake and meal for festivals and dinner parties, even in daily food, were originated in the culture and religious thoughts unique to the region. He also showed an actual craft of soft and moist Japanese sweets at the last part of the lecture, and we were all strongly impressed by his brilliant technique, flexible and fresh ideation.
Mr. Ohta’s activities are indeed the embodiment of “learning new things from the past;” as the bricolage of worlds’ cultures in a flexible manner on the base of the Way of Tea. And GK’s designers were very much stimulated.

Sohtatsu Ohta
Born 1957 in Kyoto. Graduated from Shimane University, Department of Agriculture
Doctor of Engineering, completed the postgraduate doctor course of Kyoto Institute of Technology
The owner of a sweets-serving confectionary “Oimatsu,” a master well versed in Japanese sweets.
A director of Yuuhisai Koudoukan Foundation
Known as a master of the tea ceremony, initiating a unique tea ceremony in and out of the country. Specializing in food culture and a theory of the dynamism of parties, being a special lecturer of Doshisha University and a part-time professor of Ritsumeikan University as well.