{"id":1075,"date":"2014-06-22T11:53:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T02:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2014-06-22T11:53:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T02:53:11","slug":"mystery-by-koki-miura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140622_1075.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mystery&#8221; by Koki Miura"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140622_1075.html\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\" width=\"100\" share=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" ><\/fb:like><\/div>        <div class=\"wsbl_twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140622_1075.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;Mystery&#8221; by Koki Miura\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FB-mystery05_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FB-mystery05_800px-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Takashi Okamoto\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think that one of the highlights in &#8220;Kodo One Earth Tour: Mystery&#8221; is the lion dance,\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Shishimai<\/span>. The head is operated by Kosuke Urushikubo, who was an apprentice with me.<br \/>\nTo sum it up in\u00a0one word, it&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;cute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When you think of a lion dance in Japan, it may conjure images of a valiant beast dancing at a festival&#8230; but this\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Shishimai<\/span>\u00a0is a little different to that&#8230; or perhaps it&#8217;s quite different?<\/p>\n<p>Please come along and see\u00a0how Kosuke&#8217;s S<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">hishimai<\/span> interacts with the\u00a0four female performers on stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FB-mystery11_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1660\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FB-mystery11_800px-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Takashi Okamoto\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2003 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mystery_Chigasaki_0298ss-170x170.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Takashi Okamoto\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another\u00a0piece to watch for <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ajara<\/span>, which I perform\u00a0with Tetsumi Hanaoka, who is one year my senior, and Jun Jidai, who was\u00a0an apprentice with me. In fact, the three of us have known each other since our\u00a0high school days, so we know &amp; understand each other very well. I would like to show you our trio&#8217;s\u00a0synchronization\u00a0in this piece. I think you&#8217;ll also enjoy\u00a0seeing the performers operate the lighting under the new artistic direction of this piece!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/member\/kokimiura_ja.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kokimiura_s.jpg\" alt=\"kokimiura_s\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 1px;\" width=\"1\" \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>&#8220;Kodo One Earth Tour 2014: Mystery&#8221; Asakusa Performances<br \/>\nJune 21 (Sat) &#8211; 25 (Wed) Asakusa Public Hall, Tokyo<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/news20140510oet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1196 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/news20140510oet-340x377.jpg\" alt=\"\u9f13\u7ae5\u30ef\u30f3\u30fb\u30a2\u30fc\u30b9\u30fb\u30c4\u30a2\u30fc\u301c\u795e\u79d8\uff08\u5199\u771f\uff1a\u5ca1\u672c\u9686\u53f2\uff09\" width=\"238\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u25bcAbout the Performance<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20140510oet_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kodo One Earth Tour 2014: Mystery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25bcPerformance Dates &amp; Times<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/oet\/20140621a_en.html\">June 21 (Sat) 16:00<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/oet\/20140622a_en.html\">June 22 (Sun) 15:00<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/oet\/20140623a_en.html\">June 23 (Mon) 15:00<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/oet\/20140624a_en.html\">June 24 (Tue) 18:00<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/oet\/20140625a_en.html\">June 25 (Wed) 14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25bcTicket Outlets<br \/>\nAsakusa Public Hall Tel. 03-3844-7491<br \/>\ntvk Ticket Counter Tel. 0570-00-3117\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tvkcom.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tvkcom.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that one of the highlights in &#8220;Kodo One Earth Tour: Mystery&#8221; is the lion dance,\u00a0Shishimai. The head is operated by Kosuke Urushikubo, who was an apprentice with me. To sum it up in\u00a0one word, it&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;cute.&#8221; When you think of a lion dance in Japan, it may conjure images of a valiant beast dancing at a festival&#8230; but this\u00a0Shishimai\u00a0is a little different to that&#8230; or perhaps it&#8217;s quite different? Please come along and see\u00a0how Kosuke&#8217;s Shishimai interacts with the\u00a0four female performers on stage. Another\u00a0piece to watch for Ajara, which I perform\u00a0with Tetsumi Hanaoka, who is one year my senior, and Jun Jidai, who was\u00a0an apprentice with me. In fact, &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140622_1075.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[87,6,113,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}