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The 54th Bunkyo Azalea Festival Dedicatory Performance

Past performance Nezu Shrine

About this performance

Nagauta shamisen player KIKUCHI Mitsutaka performed at "The 54th Bunkyo Azalea Festival Dedicatory Performance" at Nezu Shrine, Tokyo, on Sunday, April 27, 2025. With 杵屋 和三朗 and others.

Nagauta is a genre of shamisen music that developed in the Edo period as the music of kabuki, performed with singers, shamisen and hayashi percussion. A hono performance is music offered to the deities at a shrine festival.

For details, see the organizer's event page. Photos from the day are shown on this page.