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I went to the National Theatre to watch the traditional Japanese dance in Tokyo. My mother’s friend, who is the head of the Japanese dance school “Fujikage”, has a dance recital for the 15th anniversary of becoming the head of school (Iemoto) and the memorial performance of her husband. It was a good performance.
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- National theatre in Tokyo
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- Paper lanterns at the gate of National Theatre in Tokyo
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- Drop curtain of National Theatre is great.
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- Curtain of National Theatre. Many theatre have a lot of gorgeous curtains which are beautiful tapestry weaves (Tsudureori). Watching these expensive curtains is one of my favorite thing to go to the theatre.
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- Lobby’s lighting at National Teatre
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- What do you think of this? They are silk cocoons.
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- Silk weaving obi (sash) was made from cocoons. It is an exhibition of National Theatre.
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- At the National Theatre, they hold Bunraku that is a traditional puppet show. Bunraku has performanced from Edo period. It is entertainment played by a trinity, which consists of ‘sangyo’; tayu (narrator or chanter), shamisen player, and puppeteers. This photo is a part of “Karukaya Doushin Tsukushino Ieduto”.
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- “Meido no Hikyaku” of Bunraku
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- They holds some Kabuki play at the National Theatre. This is “Ukiyoduka Hiyokuno Inaduma”.
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- Kabuki, Shiobara Tasuke Ichidaiki” will play Bando Mitsugoro, Nakamura Hashinosuke and Kataoka Kotaro this October.
These are wonderful photos, the theatre is beautiful! Those lights look like crystal fireworks.
The images of Bunraku make me curious, I have never seen traditional Japanese puppetry.
Bunrakuk dolls are wearing beautiful kimono, and some of the famous stories are double suicide of Edo period by Monzaemon Chikamatsu. While I was watching Bunraku, dolls seemed like real man and woman.