Japanese music at a live house in Kagurazaka. Up-and-coming young Japanese traditional percussion units, Edo Hauta, which is also known as Japanese pop music of Edo period, and even the performance of folk songs and the Tsugaru-shamisen. Experience the diversity and possibilities of traditional music.

Saturday, May 21st
Venue THEGREE

Starting at 14:30
Performance by Chirikara IIIII (“Hayashi” Japanese traditional percussion)

Starting at 16:00
Performance by Honjoh Maruhide + Honjoh Hideeiji (“Hauta” music)

Starting at 17:30
Performance by Anmitsu (Tsugaru shamisen)

Registration in advance

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In the olden days, Storytellers′ Theaters were set up in the shrines and temples where people gathered, and were also a source of information and entertainment. The Storytellers′ Theater has now been recreated in the Shoin (study room) at Bishamonten Zenkoku-ji Temple. Enjoy the “Seasonal storytelling” told by the ’Kodan’ storytellers and Rokyoku performers.

Saturday, May 21st starting at 13:00 / 15:30
Venue The Shoin (study room) at Bishamonten Zenkoku-ji Temple

Performance
Kanda Orine (“Koudan” storytelling)
Ichiryusai Teikyo (“Koudan” storytelling)
Takarai Umeyu (“Koudan” storytelling)
Tamagawa Nanafuku + Sawamura Mami (“Rokyoku” storytelling)

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A super session experience, truly a fusion of different cultures – A collaboration between koto and contemporary dance, a “Kokyu” Japanese fiddle and other rubbed strings units from around the world. And the Shinnai Nagashi, a speciality of the ‘Kagurazaka Street Stage Oedo-Tour’, adds colour lighten-up to Kagurazaka at night.

Saturday, May 21st starting at 19:00
Venue Bishamonten Zenkoku-ji Temple Grounds

Performance
McQueen-Tokita Miyama (“Sou” Japanese harp) x Mademoiselle Cinema (Contemporary dance)
Cross‐cultural strings (“Kokyu” Japanese fiddle × “Erhu” Chinese fiddle × “Gadulka” Bulgarian fiddle × Cello × Percussion)
Tsuruga Isekichi and others (“Shinnai-bushi” music)
Cyril Coppini (Navigator)

Registration in advance

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Shamisen music ‘nagauta’ and ‘Tokiwazu-bushi’, which have been performed together with Kabuki, and ‘hyayashi’, a lively musical ensemble. And the one and only Tsugaru shamisen performance. Japanese music is performed together with the people gathered in the precincts of the shrine, wishing for happiness and peace in the world.

Saturday, May 21st
Venue Akagi-jinja Shrine Kaguraden Stage

Starting at 13:30
Performance
Yoshimura Isojiro Troupe (Nagauta) x Wakazishikai (“Hayashi” Japanese traditional percussion)

Starting at 15:00
Performance
Tokiwazu Waeidayuu Troupe (“Tokiwazu-bushi” music) x Wakazishikai (“Hayashi” Japanese traditional percussion)

Tobaya Riseki (Navigator)

Starting at 16:00
Venue Akagi-jinja Shrine Grounds
Performance
Seshami Street Boys (Tsugaru shamisen performance)

Registration in advance

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Traditional ‘Kamishibai’ (picture-cards shows), The Edo marionette group, and ‘Minna no Uta’ (sing-along songs) performed by the Tsugaru shamisen. Packed with Japan’s “Fun!” entertainment in 30-minute performance.

Saturday, May 21st starting at 13:00 / 15:00
Venue Akagi-jinja Shrine Assembling area

Performance
Shibuya Gagekidan (Picture-cards shows)
Kamijo Mitsuru (The Edo marionette group)
Anmitsu (Tsugaru-shamisen)

※ Registration will take place on the day. (Advance registration not required).

Learn how to play koto and shamisen, two of Japan’s most popular traditional instruments, will be taught their positioning and how to make sounds. Children and adults are welcome to attend.

Saturday, May 21st starting at 13:00
Venue Akagi-jinja Shrine Assembling area

※ Registration will take place on the day. (Advance registration not required).

“Koto” Japanese harp, ‘Biwa’ Five-stringed Japanese lute, shamisen, “Kokyu” Japanese fiddle, “Shakuhachi” bamboo flute, Japanese flute, tsuzumi and “Taiko” Japanese drum. …… A wide range of traditional instruments that have played music in Japan. You can see them up close.

Saturday, May 21st starting at 13:00
Venue Akagi-jinja Shrine Assembling area

In addition to a video introduction of the Kagurazaka neighbourhood by ambassador Robert Campbell, a digest video looks back at the recordings of the “Kagurazaka Street Stage O-edo Tour” from 2014 onwards.

Saturday, May 21st starting at 13:00
Venue Akagi-jinja Shrine Assembling area

Traditional arts from Kagurazaka’s representative stage, the Yarai Noh Theater, in the “Compare and Convince! series” from the Yarai Noh Theatre, a stage representing Kagurazaka. On the day 1, Joruri, which tells the story with the shamisen. The same stories are told in Osaka Gidayu-Bushi and Edo “Shinnai-bushi” music. And enjoy listening to a comparison of the various biwa instruments from the Heian period (794-1192) to the present day, which have changed “form” over the course of history and have been handed down to the present day.

Saturday, May 21st
Venue Yarai Noh Theater

Starting at 14:30 – Compare and Convince! The World of Joruri
Performance
Takemoto Kyonosuke + Tsuruzawa Kazu (“Gidayu-bushi” music)
Tsuruga Isekichi + Tsuruga Iseichiro and others (“Shinnai-bushi” music)

Starting at 16:00 – Compare and Convince! The World of ‘Biwa’ Five-stringed Japanese lute
Performance
Nakamura Kahoru (“Gaku biwa” Four-stringed Japanese lute)
Tanaka Naoichi (“Heike biwa” Four-stringed Japanese lute)
Kubota Akiko (“Satsuma biwa” Four or five-stringed Japanese lute)
Fujitaka Rieko (“Chikuzen biwa” Five-stringed Japanese lute)

Cyril Coppini (Navigator)

Registration in advance

Please apply using the form below.
https://torioki.confetti-web.com/form/1616