Graciela Nakachi Morimoto

Graciela Nakachi Morimoto was born in Huancayo, Peru. At the age of four, her parents decided to live in Lima. She studied at the Jishuryo Japanese Primary School and at the “María Alvarado” secondary school. With a scholarship from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Virginia (USA), she obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree with a major in Biology. She studied Human Medicine and Pediatrics at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) and completed a Master's degree at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Fellow in Pediatrics at the University of Kobe, Japan, she worked as a pediatrician at the Policlinico and the Centenario Peruano Japonesa Clinic. She was an intensivist pediatrician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and head of the Emergency and Critical Areas Department at the National Institute of Children's Health (INSN) in Lima. She is a Senior Professor at the UNMSM Faculty of Medicine. Fond of reading, music and painting.

Last updated December 2023

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Nikkei Chronicles #12—Growing Up Nikkei: Connecting with Our Heritage

Tea ceremony: When everyday life becomes art

Nov. 1, 2023 • Graciela Nakachi Morimoto

Every time I look at Japan, something always surprises me, from the aesthetic shape of its geographic map, almost in the shape of a dragon, to the soft falls of snow on the slopes of Mount Fuji, contrasting with those beautiful tones of its skies and mountains. landscapes that occur with the changes of season. This time I was fascinated to realize that tea drinking has become an art. The tea ceremony as an art is not recent. It came …

aesthetics metaphysics Peru psychology tea ceremony theory of knowledge traditions Urasenke (school of tea) values