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:

Invitation and schedule of Yamato-sensei

Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 4:00pm

Barnes Park at Inside Demonstration Stage

350 S. McPherrin Ave.  Monterey Park

http://www.montereypark.ca.gov/673/Cherry-Blossom-Festival

Program

Nagauta:   Matsuri, or festival

Yamatogaku:  Ume, or Japanese Apricot Blossom

Yamatogaku: Edo no Nigiwai, or Fun at Town of Edo

Nagauta: Echigo Jishi, or A Lion Dancer from Echigo

Collaborations with Nagauta Shiki no Kai and Yamatogaku USA  Kimisen Katada & Co will play Hayashi (drums and sound effects)