Join us on Thursday, March 28 at 4:30 PM for a Furoshiki Workshop with Takeshi Hayasaka from Japan America Society of Iowa.

Furoshiki is a traditional Japanese wrapping cloth which can be used time and time again and in a multitude of different applications. One of the primary uses for a furoshiki is as an easy zero-waste way to wrap gifts.

Takeshi Hayasaka, born and raised in Miyagi prefecture located 200 miles north of Tokyo, the capital of Japan, came to Des Moines in August 2022 as a cultural coordinator of the Japan Outreach Initiative program. He focuses on sharing Japanese culture with the local communities and supporting his host organization, Japan America Society of Iowa. He loves traveling abroad and has visited 12 countries: New Zealand, Indonesia, Colombia, Korea, Canada, the United States, Belarus, Russia, Hungary, France, Monaco, and Italy. He believes his personality was formed through the experiences from these trips.