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SUMMARY:The Samurai Sword
DESCRIPTION:Earle Brigance \nMr. Brigance will be with us again this year\, giving two lectures on the Samurai Sword and the Samurai Sword’s influence on the history of Japan. Mr. Brigance will display Samurai Swords from his personal collection. As a service Mr. Brigance will inspect and evaluate any Japanese Sword which you may have and also offers the service of cleaning and preserving Japanese Swords\, which are easily damaged when not handled or stored correctly. \nYou may contact Mr. Brigance for these services at his email address LugersandSwords@gmail.com. Mr. Brigance is also available to lecture on the Samurai Sword and its influence on the history of Japan for your civic or martial group who has an interest in the Samurai Sword.
URL:https://www.kcjapanfestival.org/event/the-samurai-sword/2023-10-07/2/
CATEGORIES:Cultural Presentations
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SUMMARY:Kimono Demonstration with Yoshiko Yamanaka and Miyako Fraley
DESCRIPTION:Learn all about traditional Japanese Kimono and Yukata. Also\, you will be able to see them demonstrate what is involved in putting on a Kimono or Yukata. They will show a wedding kimono\, a two piece casual kimono and a men’s kimono. \nThe Japanese Kimono is deeply integrated into Japanese history and culture. After a decline in popularity following the Meiji Restoration and WWII\, the kimono is now making a resurgence in popularity in Japan and around the world. While dressing their models\, Yoshiko Yamanaka and Miyako Fraley will provide instruction and interesting details about how to wear the kimono.
URL:https://www.kcjapanfestival.org/event/kimono-demonstration/
CATEGORIES:Demonstrations
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SUMMARY:Anime Screening: Kabukibu! Complete Collection
DESCRIPTION:With its elaborate makeup\, gorgeous costumes and stylized pantomime\, there are few forms of entertainment that are as iconically Japanese as the ancient mix of dance and drama known as Kabuki. And yet\, modern Japanese students tend to have little interest in it\, which frustrates Kurogo Kurusu. Kurogo has loved Kabuki ever since he was a kid\, and the fact that his high school has a drama club but no kabuki club drives him crazy. So\, naturally\, he’s decided that the solution is to make his own club. Even if it means drafting other students\, getting a faculty sponsor who knows nothing about the art\, and “bending” some of the stricter rules about things like allowing girls to participate in the classwide culture shock that will become KABUKIBU!
URL:https://www.kcjapanfestival.org/event/anime-screening-kabukibu-complete-collection/
CATEGORIES:Anime Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231007T130000
DTSTAMP:20231003T135241Z
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SUMMARY:Purification\, Meditation\, and the Realm of Spirit in Japanese Art and Contemporary Calligraphy
DESCRIPTION:Koji and Susan Nakao \nDid you know that Japanese art\, like Japanese culture\, is strongly influenced by the “Realm of Spirit?” Are you aware that both the subject matter and creative methodologies used in Japanese art frequently have a strong connection to Shinto and Buddhist practices\, especially those connected with purification and meditation? Please join us as we explore some of the connections between Japanese art\, contemporary Japanese calligraphy\, and the Realm of Spirit. \nSusan\, a former art education professor\, took students enrolled in one of her summer art offerings at Emporia State University to Japan in the summer of 2009. She and her husband\, Koji\, assisted in the translation of a biography\, “The Shōsho of Teshima Yūkei\,” (2009)\, authored by his son\, Tairiku Teshima and published in English by L.H. Yōkō Shuppan\, 2014. Susan also assisted in the translation of a children’s book\, “The Tower of Light\,” by Takuzo Yoshimura\, with illustrations by Kota Sato\, published in English by L.H. USA in 2012. Koji served as a “priest/Doshi” in a Japanese spiritual practice of purification for more than 40 years until his retirement in 2021. The couple now own and care for a small Yōkō farm in Franklin County\, KS\, near Ottawa.
URL:https://www.kcjapanfestival.org/event/purification-meditation-and-the-realm-of-spirit-in-japanese-art-and-contemporary-calligraphy/
CATEGORIES:Cultural Presentations
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SUMMARY:Anime Screening: Miss Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles
DESCRIPTION:Now serving up a truly authentic ramen story! The mysterious transfer student Koizumi-san doesn’t get along with others very well\, but she’s actually a professional when it comes to ramen. She may not say much\, but this cool girl seeks out ramen every day! Her classmate Osawa Yuu is very interested in this new transfer student. One day on her way home\, she happens to see Koizumi-san in a long line in front of a ramen shop. Yuu wants to eat ramen with her! Will she get her chance?
URL:https://www.kcjapanfestival.org/event/anime-screening-miss-koizumi-loves-ramen-noodles/
CATEGORIES:Anime Screenings
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SUMMARY:Haiku Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Frank Higgins \nBy looking at models of both classic and contemporary haiku\, we’ll try to find ways to put those qualities into our own writing. \nFrank Higgins is the author of several plays\, including Black Pearl Sings! which became one of the most professionally produced plays in America\, and The Sweet By ‘n’ By\, the latter produced with Blythe Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow. His work has been seen in New York and across the country at the Williamstown Theater Festival\, the Old Globe Theatre\, Ford’s Theater in Washington DC\, Northlight Theatre in Chicago\, Kansas City Repertory Theater\, Virginia Stage Company\, the Barter Theater\, and other places.\nHis plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service\, Samuel French\, Dramatic Publishing Company\, and Pioneer Drama Service. His one act play The True Death of Socrates is included in the Best American Short Plays series. Scenes from his play Gunplay: A Play About America were read on Capitol Hill prior to Congress passing the Brady Bill. He has also written plays for young audiences\, including Anansi the Spider and The Middle Passage\, and The Country of the Blind. He has also published five books of poetry and haiku\, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild\, and the Haiku Society of America.
URL:https://www.kcjapanfestival.org/event/haiku-workshop/2023-10-07/1/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:The Samurai Sword
DESCRIPTION:Earle Brigance \nMr. Brigance will be with us again this year\, giving two lectures on the Samurai Sword and the Samurai Sword’s influence on the history of Japan. Mr. Brigance will display Samurai Swords from his personal collection. As a service Mr. Brigance will inspect and evaluate any Japanese Sword which you may have and also offers the service of cleaning and preserving Japanese Swords\, which are easily damaged when not handled or stored correctly. \nYou may contact Mr. Brigance for these services at his email address LugersandSwords@gmail.com. Mr. Brigance is also available to lecture on the Samurai Sword and its influence on the history of Japan for your civic or martial group who has an interest in the Samurai Sword.
URL:https://www.kcjapanfestival.org/event/the-samurai-sword/2023-10-07/1/
CATEGORIES:Cultural Presentations
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SUMMARY:Grand Kabuki Spectacle
DESCRIPTION:Kabuki is the classical and popular larger-than-life Japanese music theater tradition dating back to the early 1600s and going through many evolutions as popular theater and dance to flourish now\, some 400 years later. Kabuki (whose name comes from the verb\, “kabuku”\, meaning tilt or lean\, like a rakish tilt to your hat)\, started as ladies dancing on the river flats in old Kyoto. From there it evolved into a male-based dance/drama form\, and then reached a heyday in the mid-1800s\, in Saruwaka Town Kabuki in Edo (modern-day Tokyo). \nOur 2023 festival has invited guest Kabuki dancers Kikuhiro Otowa and Ritsuyo Wazaogi\, both from Tokyo\, to produce and present a Kabuki dance extravaganza\, replete with live music\, drama\, dance and stage effects\, audience participation and much more. \nOur festival kabuki presentations will be forty-five minute shows that will take you back in time and space to the environs of old Edo and its Saruwaka Town Kabuki theater world. Dances will be performed in three iconic forms\, the celebrational Sanbaso (Harvest Prayers and Celebrations)\, the female role Dōjōji (Maiden of Dōjōji Temple)\, and the male role Sukeroku (The Edo Dandy)\, all connected by a dramatic script that ties them together and welcomes the audience in. \nAn additional part of the program features Japanese dancer Kikuasuka Wakayagi performing the classic Japanese dance piece\, Kyōganoko Dōjōji (Maiden of Dōjōji Temple). \n  \n\nOpening: Travel through time and space to 19th century Saruwaka Town in Edo (modern-day Tokyo)\, when Kabuki was at its heyday\, after over 200 years of evolution and development.\nDance: Shitadashi Sanbaso (Tongue-out Sanbaso) by Kikuhiro OTOWA. A Kabuki dance celebrating the autumn harvest\, longevity\, and vitality.\nStage Action: Kurogo\, the invisible stagehands.\nMusic and Kabuki\nDance: Kyôganoko Dôjôji (The Maiden of Dôjôji) by Ritsuyo WAZAOGI. A Kabuki dance in the Onnagata(female role) style.\nInside Kabuki: percussion\, poses and audience participation.\nDance: Sukeroku (The Edo Dandy\, Sukeroku) by Kikuhiro OTOWA. A Kabuki dance in the Aragoto (male role) style.
URL:https://www.kcjapanfestival.org/event/grand-kabuki-spectacle/2023-10-07/1/
LOCATION:MTC: Yardley Hall
CATEGORIES:Performances
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SUMMARY:Thousand Paper Cranes: Origami Activity
DESCRIPTION:The crane is a symbol of loyalty\, good fortune\, honor\, and longevity. The patience and commitment to fold 1\,000 paper cranes is believed to bring good fortune and a granted wish. Come and visit to fold an origami crane as we collectively try to fold 1\,000 on festival day.
URL:https://www.kcjapanfestival.org/event/thousand-paper-cranes-origami-activity/
CATEGORIES:Special Activities
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