{"id":4377,"date":"2016-10-17T12:51:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T03:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2016-10-17T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T03:55:45","slug":"so-kuramoto-visits-kodo-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/kodo-publicity-advertising\/20161017_4377.html","title":{"rendered":"So Kuramoto Visits Kodo Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/kodo-publicity-advertising\/20161017_4377.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=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/kodo-publicity-advertising\/20161017_4377.html\" data-text=\"So Kuramoto Visits Kodo Village\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">So Kuramoto Visits Kodo Village<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3590-01s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11241 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3590-01s-680x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Taro Nishita\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 4, Mr. So Kuramoto, a Japanese\u00a0scriptwriter,\u00a0playwright, and\u00a0director, visited Kodo Village with his family. It was a fresh, sunny autumn day on Sado Island. Our visitors\u00a0watched Yosuke Oda play o-daiko, the big drum, in our rehearsal hall. Then they went and observed the apprentices practising tea ceremony at our traditional homestead, Izumi-tei. Next, they\u00a0had a look around our nearby facilities, Sado Island Taiko Centre and Fukaura Schoolhouse, before they traveled over to Kodo Apprentice Centre where they watched Yoshikazu Fujimoto lead the apprentices through a\u00a0taiko practice session.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3603-01s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11243 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3603-01s-680x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Taro Nishita\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kuramoto has presented &#8220;Furano Juku&#8221; workshops for years in Hokkaido, where he helps actors and scenario writers to cultivate\u00a0their skills. He asked the apprentices many questions about their life at the Apprentice Centre, their training, and their thoughts and hopes. Everyone\u00a0enjoyed this fun opportunity for exchange.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11242 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3596-s-680x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Taro Nishita\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The apprentices sang a lively folksong at the end of this special visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Kuramoto Visits Kodo Village On Oct. 4, Mr. So Kuramoto, a Japanese\u00a0scriptwriter,\u00a0playwright, and\u00a0director, visited Kodo Village with his family. It was a fresh, sunny autumn day on Sado Island. Our visitors\u00a0watched Yosuke Oda play o-daiko, the big drum, in our rehearsal hall. Then they went and observed the apprentices practising tea ceremony at our traditional homestead, Izumi-tei. Next, they\u00a0had a look around our nearby facilities, Sado Island Taiko Centre and Fukaura Schoolhouse, before they traveled over to Kodo Apprentice Centre where they watched Yoshikazu Fujimoto lead the apprentices through a\u00a0taiko practice session. Mr. Kuramoto has presented &#8220;Furano Juku&#8221; workshops for years in Hokkaido, where he helps actors and scenario &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/kodo-publicity-advertising\/20161017_4377.html\">\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":[117],"tags":[48,23,32,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4383,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions\/4383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}