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Japanese cultural events currently happening in New York area. (2004 October - November)

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Art Exhibitions

Music Live/Concerts

Theater/Performing Arts

Films

Lectures/Workshops

2004 October - December

Events:

July 7, 2004
6:30pm-
7:30pm

Tanabata Festival

International Shinto Foundation
40 E. 30th St. Ground Fl, bet. Park&Madison
(212)686-9117
http://www.shinto.org/eng/top-e.html

August 4, 2004
(Wed)
6:30pm

Offering Tea Ceremony and Lecture
by Tea Master Mr. Soryu Kizu VI of Chado Mushakoji Senke

Tea Master Mr. Soryu Kizu VI of Chado Mushakoji Senke, one of the three main tea schools in Japan, will be visiting New York to present an offering tea ceremony and deliver a lecture. His lecture is entitled "Chado Mushakoji Senke and offering tea ceremony". Mr. Soryu Kizu VI is a leading disciple of the Mushakouji Senke Tea School. This offering tea ceremony is very unique for New Yorkers to observe since it will be performed in the same form as being presented at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan.

Everyone interested in Japanese culture is welcome to this event.
Admission is free.

Open Space at The Interfaith Center of New York
40 E 30th St. NY, NY, 10016
(bet Park Av & Madison Av)
Tel:1-212-686-9117
Fax : 1-212-686-7111
NewYork@shinto.org
www.shinto.org

Art Exhibitions:

Jan 13th -
Aug 15th

Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens from New York Collections
Asia Society presents an exhibition of exquisite Japanese folding screens from six New York City private collections, along with one pair of screens from the Asia Society’s Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of Asian Art.

Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Ave (at 70th Street), NYC
Information: (212) 517-ASIA
http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/japanesescreens/index.html

June 1 -
July 30, 2004

NIKA ASSOCIATION -From Another Perspective-
the 150th Anniversary of US-Japan Relations
Selected artists from Nika Association

Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery
555 Broadway, Basement Floor
New York, NY 10012
[Between Prince/Spring St.]
http://www.isefoundation.org/english/ny/now.html

Reception:
Tuesday, June 29, 2004, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.

July 3 -
July 31, 2004

ART GALA: VIVA JAPAN!
NATSU MATSURI IN NEW YORK

THE PUFFIN ROOM
435 Broome St. (Bet Broadway and Crosby St)
www.natsumatsuri-jp.com

11 Japanese artists will collaboratively translate and present "Natsu matsuri" (Summer Festival) as a modern art, bringing back memories to every Japanese. The unique approach at this event will also reveal to New Yorkers the true power and aesthetic sensitivities of the Japanese people today. This glimpse of traditional Japanese culture is an opportunity not to be missed.

Aug 1 -
Aug 31, 2004

BANGAIN USA
-1st annual summer juried Printmaking Exhibition

Flusso Gallery
568 Broadway, Suite 603 (at Prince St)
212-431-6925
www.flussogallery.com

Flusso Gallery in Soho presents its first annual summer juried printmaking exhibition. Traditional and contemporary printmakers from Japan and from all over the world show their recent works.

Printmaking has been part of Japanese traditional arts such as Ukiyoe, appreciated around the world for centuries.

In this exhibiton, in addition to traditional woodcut prints, there wil be contemporal digital prints.

Participating artists:
Alyse Bernstein, Valeria Brancaforte, Nancy Campbell, Matthew Chase-Daniel, Jose Evangelista, Elizabeth Harington, > Kunio Iizuka, > Takeshi Kawashima, > Tatsuteru Kimijima, > Rie Hasegawa, Leeladhar, > Nancy Matusima, Jesus Polanco, Koichi Sakamoto, Jean-Pierre Schoch, Selva Schenkman, Laurinda Stockwell, Rebekah Tolley, Michelle Wilson

Sep 9 -
Sep 22, 2004

CHIE "Love & Prayer"
Wako Kido "Celebrations of Life"

Flusso Gallery
568 Broadway, Suite 603 (at Prince St)
212-431-6925
www.flussogallery.com

Opening Reception: September 9, 2004

Following an important exhibition at JFK, Newark International, and La Guardia Airports in celebration of the first anniversary of 9/11 in 2002, Flusso Gallery is proud to present Wako Kido's byobu (screens) series "Celebrations of life." Besides having exhibited in the New York area, Kido has shown her works in Japan in numerous galleries and museums. She will also be official artist for the 2005 Aichi Expo (Aichi Prefecture, Japan). Kido¡'s byobu are the result of highly disciplined, if seemingly improvisatory, brushwork. The materials are simple, humble: ink, watercolor, rice paper; the colors restrained and subtle. Figures of women caught in different moments dominate these works. They are the givers of life but also they who suffer the most from its loss. Their postures are sensual but they also point to a special relationship to nature, here subtly represented through few masterful strokes. Powerful agents of reproduction while at the same delicate vessels of life, the women depicted her are caught in mid-air, as it were, unsure of whether they should be exhilarated or desperate, joyous or melancholic.

Chie's paintings, regularly shown in Europe as well as Japan, achieve a rare balance between abstraction and figuration, volume and light, repose and energy. Familiar, archetypical shapes and unadulterated colors work together to create dazzling effects which shock and soothe at the same time. Time and again, Chie seeks to translate basic components of everyday life – love, pain, prayer, loss, and joy -- into memorable images that are as much representations of an abstractly conceived inner life as they are mirrors of our own. It is said that Chie's paintings gain praise from psychiatrists and more generally people who are unusually aware of the delicate balance between mind and body and between the body and nature. Indeed, buried under a deceptive simplicity, her work synthesizes decades of research on the healing power of light, color, and shapes on the mind.

Sep 22, 2004 -
Jan 2, 2005

Shomei Tomatsu: A Retrospective
Shomei Tomatsu (b. 1930) is internationally recognized as one of Japan’s most innovative and important photographers of the postwar period.
The exhibition presents several works from each of Tomatsu’s major series, including Nagasaki 11:02, a historic documentation and exploration of the lives of A-bomb survivors in Nagasaki.

Japan Society
333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212.832.1155
http://www.japansociety.org/events/upcoming.cfm

Music Live/Concerts:

July 2 - 4

IKKOKUDOU
VOICE ILLUSION TOUR 2004 IN USA

Ikkoku-do is the name of the most famous and competent ventriloquial group in Japan. It is composed of Ikkoku Tamaki, the leader, and his various unique dolls. To tell you the truth, Ikkoku is the only one who can speak. He can speak in many different voices. Ikkoku-do reinvents ventriloquism. Ventriloquism has not been the same in Japan since Ikkoku-do came onto the scene about a year ago.

His highly inventive, groundbreaking acts quickly earned him acknowledgement as a master craftsman in the vaudeville art.
( Daily Yomiuri )

Through stage shows and national appearances on Japanese television Ikkoku-do is seen by audience throughout Japan.
Besides using ventriloquial figures, Ikkoku-do acts out many different roles, using distant voice technique to imitate various sounds.
( VEGAS 2000 )

July 2, 2004 (Fri) 7:00 PM New York
Sheraton New York
811 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019

July 3, 2004 (Sat) 2:00 PM New Jersey
Hyatt Regency on the Hudson
2Exchange Place, Jersey City, NJ 07302

July 3, 2004 (Sat) 7:00 PM White Plains
White Plains Performing Arts
31 Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains, NY 10601
Tickets: Miyanjoe International, Ltd. (212) 582-0484
http://www.ikkokudouusa.com

July 4, 2004 (Sun) 6:00 PM Boston
Holiday Inn Brookline
1200 Beacon St., Brookline, MA 02146
Tickets: Boston International Travel (617) 713-0070
http://www.ikkokudouusa.com

July 27 (Tue)
July 28 (Wed)
8:00 pm

Takumi Bando
Performance with Wadaiko (Japanese drums) and dancers

In part of "ART GALA: VIVA JAPAN! NATSU MATSURI IN NEW YORK"

THE PUFFIN ROOM
435 Broome St. (Bet Broadway and Crosby St)
www.natsumatsuri-jp.com

11 Japanese artists will collaboratively translate and present "Natsu matsuri" (Summer Festival) as a modern art, bringing back memories to every Japanese. The unique approach at this event will also reveal to New Yorkers the true power and aesthetic sensitivities of the Japanese people today. This glimpse of traditional Japanese culture is an opportunity not to be missed.

Theater/Performing Arts:

July 17 -
July 25

Natsumatsuri Naniwa Kagami (The Summer Festival: A Mirror of Ossaka)
by HEISEI NAKAMURA-ZA
Experience Japanse Kabuki in all of its resplendent authenticity! Starring one of Japan's most famous Kabuki actors, Nakamura Kankuro V, played in an re-created Edo era playhouse - a 545-seat shibaigoya (traditional Kabuki tent) complete with a hanamichi ( a walkway extending down the center or the theater) and sajiki (cushioned floor seats in the orchestra section).

Lincoln Center
Camrosch Park
65th Street & Broadway
Information: 212-875-5766, Box Office: 212-870-5570
http://www.lincolncenter.org/
Tickets: $75, $100

Wed,
July 21,
8:00 PM

Thur,
July 22,
8:00 PM

Friday,
July 23,
8:00 PM

Saturday,
July 24,
8:00 PM

Sunday,
July 25,
3:00 PM

THE ELEPHANT VANISHES
A part of Lincoln Center Festival 2004
U.S. Premiere
A Complicite co-production with Setagaya Public Theatre.
Inspired by the short stories of Haruki Murakami
Director: Simon McBurney
Performed in Japanese with English supertitiles.

Lincoln Center
New York State Theater
65th Street & Broadway
Information: 212-875-5766, Box Office: 212-870-5570
http://www.lincolncenter.org/
Tickets: $65, $75

Aug 13 (Fri)
5pm

Aug 15 (Sun)
12pm

Aug 16 (Mon)
7:15pm

Aug 19 (Thu)
10pm

Aug 21 (Sat)
10:15pm

The Blue Rocks
Izumi Ashizawa Performance Company

Writer: Izumi Ashizawa
Music: Simos Papanas
Director: Izumi Ashizawa
Choreographer: Izumi Ashizawa

A fusion of traditional Japanese Noh theatre and Greek tragedy with original music and masks. Based on Jason's legendary trip to Colchis, the heroic episode of the Blue Rocks is depicted from the victim's point of view.
(40 min)

A part of "The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC)"
http://www.fringenyc.org/

The Connelly Theater
220 East 4th Street, NYC
(Bet Avenue A & B)

Information:
212-279-4488
http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.asp?ltr=b

Films:

July 13
Tue
6:30 PM

Sharaku
1995, 139 min., color, 35mm. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Masahiro Shinoda examines the life of Sharaku (Hiroyuki Sanada), a mysterious 18th-century woodblock artist who created exquisite ukiyo-e prints but only produced portraits of kabuki actors.

Japan Society
333 East 47th Street (bet 1st & 2nd Ave), New York, NY 10017
Box Office: (212) 752-3015
http://www.japansociety.org
Tickets: $10; Japan Society members, students & seniors $5.

July 23-

The Blind Swordsman: ZATOICHI
2004, In Japanese with English subtitles.
Directed by: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano

Remake of classic Japanese Samurai movie, Zatoichi series, with a new twist by award-winning Takeshi Kitano.

In movie theaters in selected cities

July 16 -
July 24
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

July 30 -
Aug 1
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

July 6 -
August 24

Tokyo Stories
Movies by Director Yasujiro Ozu
(All movies are in Japanese with English subtitles.)

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
http://www.bam.org/film/Ozu.aspx
(718) 636-4100

The Only Son (Hitori musuko) (1936) 83min
Tue, July 6 at 4:30, 6:45, 9pm
Staring Chishu Ryu, Choko Iida

Late Spring (Banshun) (1949) 108min
Fri, July 9 at 2, 4:30, 6:45pm
Staring Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara

What Did the Lady Forget? (Shujo wa nani o wasuretaka) (1937) 71min
Tue, July 13 at 4:30, 6:45pm
Staring Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saito

Early Summer (Bakushu) (1951) 125min
Fri, July 16 at 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30pm
Staring Setsuko Kara, Chishu Ryu

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Todake no kyodai) (1941) 102min
Tue, July 20 at 4:30, 6:45, 9pm
Staring Hideo Fujino, Shin Saburi

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Ochazuke no aji) (1952) 115min
Fri, July 23 at 2, 4:30, 6:45, 9pm
Staring Chishu Ryu, Shin Saburi

There Was a Father (Chichi ariki) (1942) 87min
Tue, July 27 at 4:30, 6:45, 9pm
Staring Chishu Ryu, Shuji Sano

Early Spring (Soshun) (1956) 144min
Fri, July 30 at 3, 6, 9pm
Staring Ryo Ikebe, Keiko Kishi

Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Nagaya shinshi roku) (1947) 72min
Tue, Aug 3 at 4:30, 6:45, 9pm
Staring Choko Iida, Chishu Ryu

Tokyo Twilight (Tokyo boshoku) (1974) 141min
Fri, Aug 6 at 3, 6, 9pm
Staring Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu

Tokyo Story (Tokyo monogatari) (1953) 134min
Sun, Aug 8 at 3, 6, 9pm
Staring Chishu Ryu, Setsuka Hara

A Hen in the Wind (Kaze no naka no mendori) (1948) 84min
Tue, Aug 10 at 4:30, 6:45, 9pm
Staring Kinuyo Tanaka, Shuji Sano

Good Morning (Ohayo) (1959) 93min
Fri, Aug 13 at 2, 4:30, 6:45, 9pm
Staring Kaji Shigaraki, Chishu Ryu

Equinox Flower (Higanbana) (1958) 118min
Sun, Aug 15 at 2, 4:30, 6:45, 9pm
Staring Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka

Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) (1959) 119min
Tue, Aug 17 at 6:45, 9pm
Staring Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyo

Late Autumn (Akibiyori) (1960) 129min
Thu, Aug 19 at 6, 9pm
Staring Setsuko Kara, Chishu Ryu

An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji) (1962) 113min
Tue, Aug 24 at 4:30, 6:45, 9pm
Staring Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita
Ozu’s final film.

Lectures/Workshops:

Sept 14
Tue
6:00 PM

OHASHIATSU
Free Introductory Shiatsu Workshop
Sep 14, 2004 (Tue) 6pm-8pm

OHASHI INSTITUTE
147 West 25 th Street, 8 th Floor, New York, NY 10001
646-486-1187 / 800-810-4190
http:// www.ohashiatsu.org

SHIATSU means applying pressure ("ATSU") with fingers ("SHI"). Shiatsu is Japanese bodywork therapy that has originated within the Oriental Healing Arts.
http://www.shiatsu.org/

Sept 28
Tue
6:30 PM

Hokkaido to Kyushu: Sake Facts and Flavors from Around Japan

A lecture by sake expert John Gauntner on some of the key factors that shape the flavors and styles of sake in the different regions of Japan. Participants will have an opportunity to taste and compare sake from premium brewers representing a number of regions from Hokkaido in the North to Kyushu in the South.

Japan Society
333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212.832.1155
http://www.japansociety.org/events/event_detail.cfm?id_
event=304242641&id_performance=701479421