For the project’s unveiling event, visitors can enjoy a talk as they pound steamed rice for mochi rice cakes, and watch video footage of kagura (ancient Shinto music and dance). The traditional mochi-pounding ceremony usually takes place on occasions like New Year and at yearend, but organizers hope that marking the start of the project by pounding mochi with visitors will get the new venture off to a lively start.
*Visitors with children/families welcome.
*Please wear warm clothes.
Project YATO: Examining 500 years of Common
This preparatory project will take place in “satoyama” environments (the undeveloped woodland near populated area) around unused facilities belonging to nursery schools and temples in rural valley terrain known as “yato”. Organizers will take into account local history and features as they design links between people and places to last the next 500 years.
Mochi-pounding
Talk by head priest, Ryoudenji Temple
Kagura Jockey (talk and video on kagura by musician and kagura/traditional music researcher Toshimi Mikami)
*Program is subject to change
200 yen
Toshimi Mikami
Musician and kagura/traditional music researcher
Toukoukai (social welfare corporation) [Shizennokuni Nursery School]
TEL: 042-793-4169 (Attn: Miyazaki)
Ryoudenji Temple (2-5-33 Tadao, Machida City, Tokyo)