At: Global Labo
545 8th Ave. Unit 1410, NY, NY 10018
Date: Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 3:00pm
Music:
Nagauta:Genroku Hanami Odori
Yamatogaku:Tanabata
Yamatogaku composition by Joseph Monticello: Yokihi no Mai
Nagauta: Kanjincho
Dance: Sakura Kamuro
Dance by live music: Ume to Sansan
Shamisen, Voice, Kotsuzumi, Okawa, Taiko, other percussion, dance are performed by the volunteers from the students of New York and California of Kimisen Katada
April 16, 2016 at 3:30pm
At: indoor demonstration stage.
Barnes Park, 350 S. McPherrin ave., Monterey Park, CA 91754
Yamatogaku – Kotobuki & Edo No Nigiwai – Collaboration with Yamatogaku USA. FJM for Narimono (hayashi).
April 15, 2016
Students of Notre Dame High School worked very hard on “Ume to San San” of Dojoji using their extra cullicular periods. Regardless of such limited numbers of lessons, they did a great job.
Thank you card -2
Dear Watabe Sensei,
Thank you for teaching my the shamisen throughout this semester. At first, I thought that it would be hard to go back to a string instrument after I had been playing a wind instrument for a long time. Fortunately, was not the case due to your teaching. By reporting to the Japanese room every x-period, I was always presented with a lively Japanese musical instructor. This was a nice change from the loud instruments I usually play with. On the days when I would practice the shamisen, I would practice outside where the wind blows. As time progressed, I found this little area where you cannot hear anything, but the wind, as my special place. Here, I was able the to play the shamisen without worry as I played. Thinking back, it was a nice experience learning the shamisen and I cannot forget it. The emotions casted off by the shamisen, to the music was just amazing. Thank you for teaching me this wonderful Japanese instrument.
Your student,
Ritchie Zelaya
Saturday, November 21, 2015
at Pasadena Gakuen
595 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yamatogaku, Kotobuki, Edo no Nigiwai, and Shin Sawagi
Sunday June 7, 2015 at 12:30pm
Miyako Hotel in Little Tokyo, LA
328 E 1st St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Yamato Osho-sensei will visit Los Angeles first time since she became the 3rd head master of Yatogaku School. We will have a luncheon with performances.
Yamatogaku is one of the modernized Japanese shamisen music that began in 1933.
Program:
Ame, Rain – One summer day when it is raining, a girl recalls the day when the hydrangea was blooming a year ago. She goes to a shrine in the morning and wishes for her love to be fulfilled.
Kitsune, A Fox – This is a fairy tale. A fox will buy a furisode and obi using coins of fallen leaves and go for wedding riding a horse.
Edo Matsuri, A Festival at Tokyo
Katada Kimisen & Co. will perform KAGE BAYASHI (percussion and sound effects)
This luncheon needs reservation by May 31 as below: