Nagauta no Kai vol. 42

Name of the organization or individual

Atsushi Mahashi

subsidy category

Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy

Grant Type

single year individual

FY 2024 Phase 2 Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy Category I Single-Year Subsidy for Creative Arts Activities

A performance of Nagauta no Kai "Keisei" Photo by Nakajima Takuya

Nagauta no Kai (Nagauta Society) 12 people performing the component pieces of Nagauta classical music Aikata. Photo by Nakajima Takuya.

Nagauta no Kai performing "Osatsuma" for encore Photo by Takuya Nakajima

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Business Overview

The Nagauta Society was started with a passion for "All Nagauta which have been polished by many masters are surely wonderful. I want everyone to enjoy and like it more and more." In the 42nd festival, three nagauta and a composition composed only of shamisen were performed.
"Geki Saru" begins happily with the beating of a drum to express the liveliness of the show house. "Keisei," which depicts an oiran in Yoshiwara. "Tsunadate" was like a life-or-death energy rally, and was a grand demon extermination. The composition of Aikata introduces the charm of Nagauta-shamisen. In the talk by Tetsukuro MATSUNAGA during the intermission, he guided the audience to listen to the music from the viewpoint of a shamisen player. They performed "Daisatsuma" as an encore and the audience was excited. By viewing the performance as a space art, he aimed to create a sense of excitement from the lobby and have the audience go home with the energy from the stage.
(shamisen) Tetsukuro MATSUNAGA, Chuichiro MATSUNAGA, Chuzaburo MATSUNAGA, Tadashiro MATSUNAGA, and others; (songs) Niwamura SHIOBARA, Masae TOON HANDA, Shoichiro KINEYA, and others; (hayashi) Takane UMEYA, Misasuke MOCHIZUKI, and others.

implementation period

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Place of implementation

Nippon Steel Kioi Small Hall (Chiyoda Ward)

Profile

[Atsushi UMAHASHI]
Nagauta shamisen player. Born in Tokyo in 1960. He became a private pupil of master Tetsujuro MATSUNAGA in his third year of university. He studied under masters Chugoro MATSUNAGA and Kazajiro MATSUNAGA. In 1983, he was permitted to use the name Tetsukuro MATSUNAGA. In 1989, he formed the "Nagauta-shamisen Live Den no Kai" with Kunitoshi KINEYA and performed live in Japan and overseas. Since 2005, he has been in charge of debayashi and music for the master Shinosuke TATEKAWA. He is the general holder of the Important Intangible Cultural Property 'Nagauta.'. He was a member of Nagauta Association. It has training halls in Tokyo, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Okayama and Okinawa.