Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Happy New Year


NEW YEAR YOSE
Originally uploaded by shoko.
Wonderful new year is coming. Thanks you for all the kindness of reading this, and please encourage me this year to keep blogging. In the last two years, I went to Japanese traditional variety entertainment ("Yose") in New Years holiday with my family. In Yose, a variety of artist do performance, as short comic chat ("Konto"), storyteller's performance ("Rakugo"), magic, marionette, etc. Especially in New year season, they provide lion dance ("Shishi-mai"(photo: from Kunitachi city) ) which is usually performed only in happy occasions like holiday, festival and so on. Though it still tell us classy sense of humor in Japanese original culture, nowadays we could hardly have chance to see these old-fashioned entertainment. To absorb different culture is important, but futhermore, I want to learn, feel, and know more mother culture.

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