"This Person's 100 Tales and One Talent" 20th report

Yokohama Noh Theater Lecture “This Person’s 100 Stories and One Art” 20th

2013.7.6 (Sat) Yokohama Noh Theater

This time's Magcal: Misato Yamamoto

“This person 100 stories and one trick” 20th report
 

 
July 6th, a sunny day. On this day, at the Yokohama Noh Theater, a Living National Treasure of Bunraku Shamisen,

I went to see the 20th episode of ``This Person: 100 Stories and One Art,'' which was held with Kanji Tsurusawa.
 

 
Facilities such as the Prefectural Youth Center, the Prefectural Library, and the Music Hall are located on the slope on the opposite side of Sakuragicho from the sea. I turned to the back and looked at the buildings that were standing in front of me.

As I walked in, I saw a wooden, tiled-roofed Noh theater standing quietly among the trees, giving me a sense of its solemn presence. There is a large park full of nature called Kambeyama Park next to the Noh theater.

The leaves on the squid trees were pleasant and the air was clear, and time seemed to flow slowly and calmly around the Noh theater.
 

 
When I went inside, I saw a Noh stage that seemed to be about a third of the size of the venue, and I was surprised to find that it was like a house within a house. But after sitting in the audience for a while, that feeling was wrong.

I realized that. On the inside of the door that leads into the audience seats, there is a roof on the audience side. Of course, the Noh stage also has a roof. I suddenly realized that,

I felt like I was surrounded by buildings, or more like, thrown out into a courtyard. Up until now, I had been heading inside the building, but before I knew it, I was under the sky.

I felt like I had arrived.

I grew up in Yokohama, and every time I went to the Prefectural Youth Center for school events, there was a building in the back called the Yokohama Noh Theater that specialized in classical performing arts.

This is the first time I found out that it exists.

This was my first experience with Bunraku in my life, and there were so many things I didn't know.
 

 
This time, Kanji Tsurusawa, a living national treasure, came wearing a white costume, but the white costume was only worn during the three summer months from June 15th to September 15th. Stay cool from

This seems to be a long-standing consideration for the audience. What was interesting was how the sound changed from the shamisen to the biwa due to the difference in the pieces used for the shamisen.

I was surprised to see that the sound had changed.

Additionally, ``Because the shamisen is made of stretched leather, unlike stringed instruments such as the guitar or violin, the shamisen also has the percussive elements of a drum.''

When I heard this story, I realized that the shamisen is a ``shamisen,'' which is a single shape, but it can be played by devising ways to play it.

I started thinking that it might be an instrument that allows for seven changes in sound.

The image of traditional wisdom being passed down from person to person goes beyond the image of classical performing arts as something “old.”

I began to change my image of it as something that is ``living in the modern world.''

Although I was born in Japan, I knew nothing about Bunraku, a classical Japanese performing art, and was ashamed of my own ignorance, but this course was designed to teach people from Japan that I didn't know anything about.

It was a great opportunity to see it. I hope that people like me who have never been exposed to classical performing arts will take this opportunity to become interested in classical performing arts.

This time it was a bunraku-shamisen course, but next year on February 1, 2014, the 21st edition of ``Kono Hito 100 Stories and Ichige'' will be held with Noh actor Living National Treasure Kan Hosho as a guest. on this occasion

Why not visit Yokohama Noh Theater?
 
 
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Misato Yamamoto

Born in Hokkaido in 1990, raised in Yokohama. Currently enrolled in the painting major at Tokyo Zokei University.

In 2012, he held a group exhibition, “A Little Cloudy and Dirty Cat” (Kitasenju).

In 2013, she participated in discussion group activities and the puppet theater troupe ``Gekidan☆Shitai''.

A two-person exhibition is scheduled for September this year in Shimokitazawa.

Currently, he is creating installations and performances about the relationship between public and personal spaces.

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Photo: Misato Yamamoto's work "Untitled" 2012