{"id":2060,"date":"2014-11-09T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T03:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2014-11-09T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T03:55:10","slug":"tour-finale-on-miyakojima-by-kenta-nakagome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20141109_2060.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tour Finale on Miyakojima&#8221; by Kenta Nakagome"},"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\/20141109_2060.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\/20141109_2060.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;Tour Finale on Miyakojima&#8221; by Kenta Nakagome\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/R0013461-ss.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/R0013461-ss-340x453.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kenta Nakagome\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/R0013454-ss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/R0013454-ss-340x453.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kenta Nakagome\" width=\"320\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The tour finale for the fall Workshop Performance Tour was on Miyakojima, an island in Okinawa.<br \/>\nIt was our first performance there in 12 years, which meant\u00a0it was the first visit there for most of the cast on this tour.<\/p>\n<p>We had the opportunity\u00a0to meet people who have been cheering on Kodo since the ensemble\u00a0first came to Miyako Island in the eighties.<\/p>\n<p>I know Sado is also an island far from mainland\u00a0Japan&#8230; but I was so happy to see people on this far-away island who were so passionate about our group. I played taiko for them, already hoping for the chance to come back here again.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/R0013524-ss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/R0013524-ss-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kenta Nakagome\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/R0013444-ss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/R0013444-ss-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kenta Nakagome\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The beautiful sea around Miyakojima was breathtaking!<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/R0013513-ss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/R0013513-ss-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kenta Nakagome\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/R0013515-f-ss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/R0013515-f-ss-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kazuki Imagai\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Our long tour had clocked up twice the length of Japan in mileage. When we got to Miyakojima, everyone we met was so kind, so it was such a feel-good place for us to conclude\u00a0our performances.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/member\/kenta_ja.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-469 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/kenta_s.jpg\" alt=\"kenta_s\" width=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tour finale for the fall Workshop Performance Tour was on Miyakojima, an island in Okinawa. It was our first performance there in 12 years, which meant\u00a0it was the first visit there for most of the cast on this tour. We had the opportunity\u00a0to meet people who have been cheering on Kodo since the ensemble\u00a0first came to Miyako Island in the eighties. I know Sado is also an island far from mainland\u00a0Japan&#8230; but I was so happy to see people on this far-away island who were so passionate about our group. I played taiko for them, already hoping for the chance to come back here again. The beautiful sea around &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20141109_2060.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":[29,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060"}],"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=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}