Boating with Edo Magic Lanterns! and Photography poetry for free
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Boating with Edo Magic Lanterns!
A Super Cool Revival of an Edo Summer Feature! (English translation available.)
Event Schedule
October 2 (Mon) 20:00; 21:00-A pleasure boat ride from Sakurabashi Bridge, Sumida River.
Pleasure boat ride from Saku-rabashi Bridge, Sumida River. Tokyo.
Booking is required. Boarding starts at Azumabashi Pier 30 min. before show time.
(If you are late, you cannot board the pleasure boat.)
October 3 (Tues) 19;00- Kyu-Nakagawa Terrace
Booking is required. Please come to the venue 10 min. before show time to receive your ticket.
About the EVENT : A seasonal feature spectacularly popular in the Edo period (1603-1867)..A traditional entertainment performed on boats, Edo Magic Lantern is revived after 150 years. Magic Lantern is considered a predecessor of movies and anime. It is an Edo period science (visual technology) which started around 1802 as well as artistic entertainment. The You-kiza's evening riverboat Magic Lantern shows performed ghost stories for audiences on board, on the embankment, or on bridges, a cool way to spend the evening outdoors. We offer a special program held in a roofed pleasure boat by the Kyu-Nakagawa River terrace, where the ambience of pre-modern Edo can still be felt. The weaving of light and dark cre-ates the beautiful, mysterious, and frightening world of Edo Magic Lantern. Don't miss this chance to see a rare delight.
Edo Magic Lantern Performances Another traditional art that Youkiza celebrates is magic lantern performance, which has a 200 year history. This art applies the media skills invented in Europe during the mid 17th century. Glass slides are inserted into a box-shaped projector and pictures are projected onto a screen. A number of mobile projectors are deployed together to create complex scenes.
Program
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Prologue:The show cannot start without this! Youkiza's Magic Lantern begins!
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Four Seasons of Japan:Enjoy how the Magic Lantern portrays the changing qualities of these seasons.
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Hanshu Dish Mansion: Revival performance of the terrifying ghost of Kiku from the "Ancient Magic Lantern Program".
Performers
Senyu Ryokawa (Magosaburo Youki XII) and Youkiza members
Magic Lantern slides: painted by Akira Uno
Composition: Masataro Imafuji (Living National Treasure)
Musical coordination :Tatsuyuki Mochizuki
Nagauta—Masanosuke Imafuji. Michio Imafuji
Shamisen—Masajuro Imafuji, Matane Imafuji
Musical accompaniment—Tatsuyuki Mochizuki
Flute—Suiho Tosha
Admission/ Entry: FREE
Boating with Edo Magic Lanterns! and Photography poetry for free