Executive Committee for the Koenji Engei Festival
A large number of yose engei performers have lived in the Koenji district since ancient times, so there is a culture of safeguarding and cultivating the tradition. There used to be an entertainment hall that accommodated several hundred people, and even now several places including the ZA-KOENJI Public Theatre continue to hold regular yose performances. We have gathered them together at the same time, solicited new venues, and grown it into a festival. The aim of putting on yose engei entertainment centering around rakugo is to get people to recognize yose engei as a form of arts and culture from the Koenji area, on top of being something they know and feel comfortable with.