The Seventh Koenji Engei Festival
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Koenji Engei Matsuri Executive Committee
- subsidy category
- Regional Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
2016 Tokyo Area Arts and Culture Grant (secondary deadline)
Business Overview
Now in its 7th year, the Koenji Engei Matsuri is a 10 day festival where visitors can enjoy rakugo, manzai, magic, and other forms of entertainment at shrines, public baths, izakaya bars, bicycle shops, and funeral homes in the Koenji Station area. As the number of events increases, the number of comedians, venues and customers are increasing. You can enjoy not only vaudeville but also walking around the town, such as the “First Yose ” with easy-to-understand explanations, the“ Nigaku-gekijo in Koenji, ” where you can fully enjoy “kamikiri, ” the star of vaudeville, and the stage performance“ Nagetsunage ~ daikagura acrobatics ~ ” performed by the young members of the Daikagura Acrobatics Association. In addition to the vaudeville performance, you can also enjoy rakugo events with a meal you can choose from at the Etoile shopping street, which is lined with old stores of tempura, sushi, and soba noodles of Edo food culture.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Friday, February 10, 2017 - 19th (Sun)
- Venues
- More than 40 venues in the Koenji area (Suginami-ku, Tokyo) Val Research Institute, Heian Ritsuryo Koenji Kaikan, Za Koenji, Tsubameya Optician Shop, Uokou, Kosugiyu, Koshin Bunka Kaikan, Curry House Colombo, Grain, HACO, Saizushi Shinkan, Used Book Sakaba Kokutail, Chinton-chan, Chosen-ji Temple, Mankan, Uptown Koenji Gallery, Kawashimaya Sushi Honten, Sennari, Yuyu Umabashikan, Hikawa-jinja Shrine, Ichiyana, Connexion, La Cocina del Quattro, Bonsaiya Rabi Adesso, Dangut, tokyobike shop Koenji, Watanabe Kensetsu Underground Hall, Koenji Library, Chozen-ji Temple, Sanwa Comsys Engineering, Secion Suginami, Meiai Kindergarten, HOWL the field, Myoho-ji Temple
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
[Koenji Vaudeville Festival Executive Committee]
Many vaudeville performers have lived in the Koenji area for a long time, and there is a climate to protect and nurture them. There used to be an entertainment hall that accommodated hundreds of people, and today there is a theater called Za Koenji and several other shops that hold regular yose performances. We have gathered them all at once, and we have recruited new venues to develop them into "festivals." By performing vaudeville performances centered on rakugo, the purpose is to make people feel familiar with it and recognize it as a cultural art of the Koenji area.