Gagaku & Gigaku

Thanks to the contributions of many officials, we could enjoy a fantastic and wonderful evening yesterday.
For the stage about the story of Genjousanzou priest,a famous actor,Mr,Takaaki Enoki was invited this year, also famous in the field of pale water drawing.

Many of performers were the students of Tenri University and the ancient back music was played by Gagaku division of Tenri University.
They all well contributed to revive the ancient stages,Gigaku so much.

And all the stage clothes are created referring to ancient Treasury holdings, also the manufacturing methods of textiles are hand making including strings staining materials technology were followed with ancient ones, exception was the one stage,first time this year, reddish and shinny armor weapons.

The representative of the ancient string staining technical engineering technology was Mr. Yoshioka from Kyoto factory, being the legacy following the representative of old Japanese fencing school Yoshioka Dojo in Kyoto that had been destroyed by the historically famous swordsman Mr. Musashi Miyamoto.