CONTENTS
With the various festivals focused on bring Japanese culture to different countries, we’re looking at Shuhari Japan and their time in France at the Japan Tours Festival 2019!
null
Every year, a series of festivals and events celebrating and introducing Japan to the rest of the world are held in a variety of different countries. In the UK you have events like Hyper Japan in London or Doki Doki Festival in Manchester, in the US you have Japanfest Chicago, or the J-Pop Summit in San Francisco. And in France, a country well known for its love of Japan, you have Japan Expo and Japan Tours Festival.
For this year's Japan Tours Festival, that happened in February and brought in about 20,000 guests, we want to take a look back at one of the popular exhibitions from Shuhari Japan.
What is Shuhari Japan (守破離Japan)?
Shuhari Japan is a traditional dance and martial arts group that looks to bring these traditional cultures to the rest of the world. By practicing as a group and performing a broad range of traditional acts, such as dances, swordsmanship and Iaido, and shamisen.
Example of Swordsmanship with Masatoshi Kubo and Hiroyuki Kishida
The Main Performance
The main performance from Shuhari Japan was a performance concerning swordsmanship and the elements of a battle scene when it comes to traditional period films and shows. The two main performers were Hiroyuki Kishida and Masatoshi Kubo. Mr. Kubo was originally Mr. Kishida's teacher in the art of swordsmanship and action scenes, but due to them living in Tokyo and Kyoto respectively, they don't have the chance to meet much.
With this, a lot of the practice for this was done mainly individually. This shows an extreme amount of talent to be able to pull this off! Without having a numerous amount of years training as well, the performance wouldn't have been able to take place. The performance was applauded and rated extremely highly leading to an invitation for the following years Japan Tours Festival 2020 happening in February 2020!
Other Performances
A whole host of performances was also performed and experiences were to be had! They had professional dancers such as Einojo and shamisen players like Maya Yamao attend, and they also made an on the spot decision to do a brief swordsmanship training exhibition after being asked to do so, which was also received with great reviews! A large range of people attended this from young to old, and it gave the organisers a chance to let those that had come to touch the Japanese Traditional culture personally.
An Invitation and Crowdfunding Project!
After receiving a large amount of great praise, the organisers of Japan Tour Festivals invited Shuhari Japan back to participate in 2020. With this, in order to attend with the best possible group, they have created a crowdfunding project on our sister site Japankuru Funding! By raising money to help pay for some of the costs of transportation and luggage fees, they hope to help many more people learn about Japan and its traditional cultures!
You can find the page here on Japankuru Funding!
It has a target goal of 500,000 Yen and runs from October 31st to December 19th
PROFILE
Hey everyone! We hope that we can help you keep up to date with all the projects and things we have going on over at Japankuru Funding! We hope that you find the projects on the site as interesting as we do!
COMMENT
FEATURED MEDIA
VIEW MORESee Kyoto Clearly With Your New Glasses #japankuru #kyoto #jins #교토여행 #진즈 #京都 #교토수족관 #가모가와 #kamogawa #kyotoaquarium
A Very Special Trip on the Ferry Sunflower #japankuru #ferrysunflower #hokkaidotrip #japanexperience #japantrip #girlstrip #oarai #tomakomai #北海道 #北海道旅行 #茨城 #홋가이도 #일본선박여행 #토마코마이 #이바라키 #북해도 #페리여행 #여행에미치다 #여자끼리 #日本渡輪 #sunflower號 #坐船旅行 #日本女子旅 #日本體驗
Japanese Makeup Shopping • A Trip to Kamakura & Enoshima With Canmake’s Cool-Toned Summer Makeup #pr #canmake #enoshima #enoden #에노시마 #캔메이크 #japanesemakeup #japanesecosmetics
⚔️The Robot Restaurant is gone, but the Samurai Restaurant is here to take its place. Check it out, and don't forget your coupon! 🍣신주쿠의 명소 로봇 레스토랑이 사무라이 레스토랑으로 부활! 절찬 쿠폰 발급중 💃18歲以上才能入場的歌舞秀,和你想的不一樣!拿好優惠券去看看~ #tokyo #shinjuku #samurairestaurant #robotrestaurant #tokyotrip #도쿄여행 #신주쿠 #사무라이레스토랑 #이색체험 #할인이벤트 #歌舞伎町 #東京景點 #武士餐廳 #日本表演 #日本文化體驗 #japankuru #japantrip #japantravel #japanlovers #japan_of_insta
Japanese appliance & electronics shopping with our KOJIMA x BicCamera coupon! 用JAPANKURU的KOJIMA x BicCamera優惠券買這些正好❤️ 코지마 x 빅 카메라 쿠폰으로 일본 가전 제품 쇼핑하기 #pr #japankuru #japanshopping #kojima #biccamera #japaneseskincare #yaman #dji #osmopocket3 #skincaredevice #日本購物 #美容儀 #相機 #雅萌 #日本家電 #일본여행 #면세 #여행꿀팁 #일본쇼핑리스트 #쿠폰 #일본쇼핑 #일본브랜드 #할인 #코지마 #빅카메라 #japankurucoupon
Odaiba's DiverCity Tokyo Plaza is home to the famous real-size 20m-tall Unicorn Gundam, and the popular shopping center has even more Gundam on the inside! Check out the Gundam Base Tokyo on the 7th floor for shelves upon shelves of Gunpla, and the Gundam Base Tokyo Annex on the 2nd floor for cool anime merchandise. Both shops have tons of limited-edition items! #pr #odaiba #tokyo #tokyotrip #japantrip #japantravel #PR #divercity #divercitytokyoplaza #tokyoshopping #gundam #unicorngundam #gundambasetokyo #anime #otaku #gunpla #japankuru #오다이바 #다이바시티도쿄 #오다이바건담 #건담 #일본건담 #건프라 #건담베이스도쿄