Imagining One Earth, Right Now

Kodo One Earth Tour 2025 brings you a programme with something for everyone, from beloved classic repertoire to regional folk arts to brand new compositions. It showcases the talents of each performer as it weaves their skills into new forms of expression while drawing out their distinct characters and strengths. Come and experience it firsthand at the theater.

Promotion Artwork: Osamu Ohashi (thumb M)
Photo: Takashi Okamoto

For over four decades, Kodo has been touring under the banner “One Earth,” striving to connect people around the world through the sound of taiko.

Today, the world is rapidly becoming more diversified, and more divided.
In a world like this, can we be content with music, performing arts, and art being merely commercial—just something people consume?
Have they lost their role in serving as catalysts for communication, leading us to learn about others and, in time, to know ourselves?

I want to lean in to believing that taiko and music do create empathetic communities where humans resonate with one another, reaffirming their common bonds beyond race, nationality, language and religion.

Also, we need to remember that Earth isn’t only home to humans.
Animals and plants, their lives are also woven into the Earth’s multifaceted rhythms.
Sometimes beating in sync, always ringing out in living color.

When we imagine One Earth and the future, we can’t just focus on humans alone.
We need to consider all life here on Earth, and all of us living together.

Let’s all imagine One Earth together, here and now.
We will keep playing taiko to keep imaginations alight around the world.

 

Masayasu Maeda, Director

 

Director: Masayasu Maeda (Kodo)
Cast: Kodo (Jun Jidai, Koki Miura, Ryoma Tsurumi, Reo Kitabayashi, Mizuki Yoneyama, Seita Saegusa, Chihiro Watanabe, Kei Sadanari, Moe Niiyama, Kazuma Hirosaki, et al.)
※Cast may be subject to change.

Programme: To include Zoku, Miyake, Chonlima, Yatai-bayashi, O-daiko, and more.

 

May–June 2025 Tour Schedule

First Dates Announced

May 11 (Sun) Komae Ecorma Hall, Komae, Tokyo
May 18 (Sun) Ueno College Hall, Hiroshima City
June 1 (Sun) Kashiwazaki City Performing Arts Center Art Forêt, Kashiwazaki, Niigata
June 22 (Sun) Tochigi Prefecture Cultural Center (Main Hall), Utsunomiya, Tochigi

※Performances are also being planned in the following prefectures: Yamagata, Iwate, Akita
Further details to be announced in 2025.