てんのじ村寄席/Tennojimura-yose
てんのじ村寄席は主にアマチュアによる上方落語や英語落語などの寄席芸を楽しんでいただく拠点です。
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"It’s your imagination to visualize udon noodles she is eating."
Rakugo, a traditional one-person comic storytelling performance, is said
to date back to the late 17th century and is still a very
popular entertainment. Most stories are taken from ordinary people’s lives,
mingling fun and sorrow.
On a zabuton cushion, a storyteller creates an imaginary drama with a
creative way of speaking and a various use of facial expressions to portray
all kinds of characters.
The
only props used in Rakugo are a folding fan and a hand towel. They are used to
represent many different objects such as chopsticks, pen, scissors, paper,
wallet, and so on.
Rakugo stories end with skillfully delivered punch lines called “ochi”(the
character ochi is also read raku to give rakugo its name)that makes the
story more interesting.
Recently, Rakugo stories have been
performed in many different languages, such as English, French, Chainese,
Korean, and getting popular worldwide.
