{"id":4357,"date":"2016-10-13T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T02:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2016-10-13T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T03:01:29","slug":"bountiful-autumn-by-kodo-ensemble-leader-yuichiro-funabashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-ensemble-leader\/20161013_4357.html","title":{"rendered":"“Bountiful Autumn” by Kodo Ensemble Leader Yuichiro Funabashi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oct. 5, 2016<\/p>\n

Bountiful Autumn<\/h2>\n

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Hello, everyone. I hope you are all well.<\/p>\n

The rice harvest has nearly finished here on Sado Island and the crops are drying on racks. We \u00a0look forward to tasting the newly harvested rice very soon.\u00a0One of the luxurious perks of living in a rural area is eating locally grown rice, and I have to say\u00a0that Sado Island has particularly delicious rice!<\/p>\n

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Our “Spiral” and “Interactive Performance” tours are currently on the road in Japan. I encourage you to go along to experience these\u00a0energetic performances at a venue near you. Both casts\u00a0are largely made up of\u00a0young performers. Everyday they work so hard to deliver better and better performances, so I am sure they will return\u00a0to Sado Island even stronger after their efforts on these tours.<\/p>\n

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While the main tours have been\u00a0on the road, I have been on Sado Island and performing in various places, too. Last weekend, I went to Korea with a select Kodo ensemble, which was Kodo’s first time there in 16 years. It was a whirlwind schedule, just three days and two nights, and we went there especially to perform with Kim Duk Soo and SamulNori at\u00a0“Korea Japan Exchange Festival 2016 in Seoul.” It was inspiring to see so many Japanese and Korean artists performing in one place. At the end of the festival we all came together for an exciting, climatic finale.<\/p>\n

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\nNext I’m off to Vietnam for our debut performances there next\u00a0week. This will be the 49th country where\u00a0Kodo has given performances. We look forward to being reunited with EC 2016 guest artists Bac Ha and the other friends we made during our visit in February this year. We will perform at a music festival in Vietnam and we look forward to new encounters and further cultural\u00a0exchange.<\/p>\n

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Our trip to Vietnam promises to be a great\u00a0opportunity to learn more about the history and background of local musicians and our recent\u00a0collaborators, as we found out last year after Earth Celebration when Kodo visited Suar Agung in Bali, Indonesia. It will give us all a chance to deepen our mutual understanding. In a few years time, perhaps we can invite guests from various countries back to EC on Sado Island for further\u00a0collaborations, too.<\/p>\n

Kodo tours regularly throughout, Europe and North America, but in recent years we are also enjoying the increasing number of\u00a0opportunities that arise for us to\u00a0perform on other continents, too. In the past year, with our performances in Hong Kong, Brazil, Indonesia, Korea, and next in Vietnam, we are\u00a0traveling\u00a0to new places and drawing on new inspiration. I am sure this will lead to each member, and our entire group, creating\u00a0broader, deeper forms of music and expression, which we look forward to sharing with you all.<\/p>\n

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Yuichiro Funabashi, Kodo Ensemble Leader, plays “O-daiko” at EC 2016 “Kodo Village Concert”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Oct. 5, 2016 Bountiful Autumn Hello, everyone. I hope you are all well. The rice harvest has nearly finished here on Sado Island and the crops are drying on racks. We \u00a0look forward to tasting the newly harvested rice very soon.\u00a0One of the luxurious perks of living in a rural area is eating locally grown rice, and I have to say\u00a0that Sado Island has particularly delicious rice! Our “Spiral” and “Interactive Performance” tours are currently on the road in Japan. I encourage you to go along to experience these\u00a0energetic performances at a venue near you. Both casts\u00a0are largely made up of\u00a0young performers. Everyday they work so hard to deliver better … \u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[88,163,6,276,280,259,271,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}