"Dolls Town" (tentative name) by Yukyuza and Yishin Chung
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Edo Itoayatsuri Ningyo Yukiza
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY28 Creation Grant [Single-year grant program] 2nd term
Business Overview
With a history of more than 380 years, the Yuki theater of Edo Itoayatsuri dolls, designated as a National Record Selected Intangible Folk Cultural Property and an Intangible Cultural Property of Tokyo, performs works by the writer and director of modern theater, Jeong Yishin, utilizing their technique and expressive power. This play is a reprise of the work which was written and first performed in 2007. During World War II, puppets play the roles of people living in Dolls Town, a fictitious town in the middle of the war, and after the war, human beings play the roles of people who reminisce about that time. The actual puppeteers play the roles of Okame and Hyottoko, middle-aged postwar itinerant puppeteers. Depicting the appearance of weak but strong ordinary people who survive during the war, this is a moving story that creates a comical yet tragic spectacle with "laughter," "tears" and "wonder". Main performers Magosaburo YUKI XII, Chie YUKI, Ikuko YUKI, Kazuma YUKI, Mei OKAIZUMI and other puppeteers at the Yukiza Main staff Script and direction: Yoshinobu TEI, music composition: J.A. Caesar, puppet art: Kazunori WATANABE Stage art: Yoko ISONUMA (following the plan of the first performance by the deceased in 2011) Stage director: Hitoshi YOSHIKI Lighting: Takayoshi MASUDA Sound: Akame FUJITA
- Period of Activity / Project
- Sunday, January 15, 2017 - 22nd (Sun)
- Venues
- The Suzunari (Setagaya Ward, Tokyo)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
"Magosaburo YUKI the Twelfth (Ryogawa Senyu), real name Katsumasa TANAKA"
He was born as the second son of Magosaburo YUKI the Tenth. He made his debut as a puppeteer at the age of 4, after which he studied various classical performing arts such as Kabuki, Noh and Kyogen, and succeeded to the name Ryogawa Senyu III in 1976 and Magosaburo YUKI XII in 1992. He has been performing for about 70 years. In addition to continuing the classic Edo Itoa Ayatsuri puppet show, he is also actively involved in creating plays with actors from Japan and overseas. Especially in recent years, they have been actively engaged in international co-production. He also worked hard to train younger puppeteers and started a puppeteers' school in 2004. Since then, he has made efforts to popularize and educate the general public about Edo ito ayatsuri dolls.