How about enjoying a Japanese culture experience with over 1,500 years of history?　Sumi-Nagashi is a Japanese traditional craft that began 1,500 years ago. It was a form of entertainment for court nobility, and originated with these court nobles dipping s color filled writing brush, called fude in Japanese, into a river and enjoying the intricate patterns borne from the flowing of the river with the color. Eventually Japanese traditional psper, or washi, was introduced into the process in order to capture the patterns created by the confluence of color and river. For this taiken, you will pour pure, natural water from the local Otaki area into a small box. Nexr, you will dip a color filled fude into the water and spread it into a circle, creating your own complex and unique patterns by blowing and fanning the surface of the water. Finally, you will capture the marble pattern with locally-produced washi.