Join Portland Japanese Garden for a special soroban, the Japanese abacus, presentation by Miwako Sakabayashi, President of Soroban League North America, featuring demonstrations by visiting students from Japan and the United States at the Jordan Schnitzer Japanese Arts Learning Center. During the presentation, the students will demonstrate the results of their daily soroban training through exciting live performances and rapid mental calculation exercises. Guests will also learn how soroban students visualize numbers and perform amazingly fast calculations using the abacus.

After the lecture, guests are invited to join Miwako Sakabayashi and participating students in the Yanai Family Classroom for a hands-on soroban experience. Students will teach visitors simple calculations using the abacus, offering a fun and interactive introduction to this traditional Japanese learning tool.