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Rakuichi Rakuza ~Words, Songs, and Dances Unofficial

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2025/11/01(sa.) 14:00 Starting

Hosho Noh Theater （Tokyo）

Official https://www.gakuichigakuza.com/

Rakuichi Rakuza ~Words, Songs, and Dances

This performance, "Raku Ichirakuza: Words, Songs, and Dances," brings together a wide variety of expressions of traditional performing arts, from gidayu, nankyoku, and biwa to Ryukyuan song and dance, shigin, and Tsugaru shamisen. First-rate performers, including gidayu by Takemoto Koshitaka, shamisen by Tsuruzawa Sanjuju, nankyoku by Kunimoto Haruno, and biwa by Tomoyoshi Tsurushin, will appear on stage to narrate famous scenes from Chushingura in the first part, while Ryugaku, dance, and famous Tsugaru shamisen pieces will captivate the audience in the second part. Please enjoy the traditional Japanese beauty of storytelling and music in the prestigious setting of the Hosho Noh Theater.

Program

  • Kanadehon Chushingura, Tononaka Basha-no-Dan

  • Nanbu Saka Yuki no Farewell

  • clear weather after snowfall

  • type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era

  • earnings

  • folk song from the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture (used as a Bon Festival dance song)

  • autumnal melody

  • White Tiger Corps (five tribes that migrated into Japan between 1944 and 1945)

  • Yose no Ongaku and Dancing

  • three-stringed Japanese guitar

  • Tsugaru Yamauta (ballad of the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture)

  • Tsugaru Jyonkara Bushi (type of old Japanese folk song)

  • impromptu (musical)

Part I: Words (gidayu, nankyoku, biwa). Part II: Songs and dances (Ryukyuan music, Ryukyuan dance, Shigin, Tsugaru shamisen, Yose no Onkyoku, etc.).

Performer

  • Koshitaka Takemoto

    gidayuu (type of reciting used in the puppet theater)

  • Sanju Tsuruzawa

    shamisen

  • Haruno Kunimoto

    recitation of stories accompanied by samisen (called naniwabushi)

  • heart of heart, soul, and mind

    biwa (Japanese lute)

  • Bailiff Kinao

    Ryugaku, Sanshin

  • Taira University

    Ryugaku, Sanshin

  • Yurisai Nakamine

    Ryukyuan dance

  • young greens

    Ryukyuan dance

  • Ryu Kanade Yoshinaga

    reciting Chinese poems

  • black marsh water

    reciting Chinese poems

  • tachibana (inedible citrus, Citrus tachibana)

    recitation and dancing

  • Japanese cobra lily (Arisaema ringens)

    sword dance

  • knight wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)

    musical performance

  • Naomi Furuta Company

    accompaniment

  • Takeyama Takahashi (2nd generation)

    Tsugaru shamisen (a form of shamisen popular in the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture)

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